The OPL 245 deal, popularly known as the Malabu oil deal, has turned into a major scandal, with allegations of money exchanging hands leveled against senior government officials, including Adoke and President Goodluck Jonathan
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The section states: “At any time when any House of Assembly of a state is unable to perform its functions by reason of the situation prevailing in the state, The National Assembly may make such Laws for the peace, order and good government of that state with respect to matters on which a House of Assembly may make laws as may appear to the National Assembly to be necessary or expedient until such time as the House of Assembly is able to resume its functions; and any such laws enacted by the National Assembly pursuant to this section shall have effect as if they were laws enacted by the House of Assembly of the state
The committee, which received 35 requests for the creation of new states, said that none met the stipulated requirements
The legislator said that low literacy level and the absence of constant power supply would discourage Nigerians from embracing the policy
Other reasons, according to her, are the opportunity to know the disposition of the embassies’ members of staff, their functions and welfare
The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Malam Zakari Mohammed, disclosed this to newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Tuesday
The governorship position is a huge responsibility that one uses to touch people’s live.
“In terms of knowledge, exposure, experience, understanding the job and being a good legislator, I have what it takes to govern the state
The proposed law also seeks to bar registration of gay clubs, societies and organisations, their sustenance, processions and meetings, and also “the public show of same sex amorous relationship directly or indirectly”
Reacting, Mohammed insisted the House acted within ambit of the law, claiming that the so-called report of the conference committee was inferior to the 1999 Constitution
The House Committees on Aviation and Justice said the understanding between Rivers State and the bank was a well-known practice in the sector and was backed by documented evidences
He said “a colossal sum of $380 billionn or N59 trillion, and $15.72 trillion worth of gas assets were alleged to be at stake in the shady deal”
The duo of Hembe and Azubogu are being prosecuted by the EFCC for allegedly converting the sum of $4,095 paid to them as estacode for a conference in the Dominican Republic, which they failed to attend, thereby committing an offence contrary to section 308 of the Penal Code Act Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1990
Osagie particularly took exception to the phrase “deepen the knowledge”, which he said meant they needed to be properly tutored
He was said to have been advised by a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to move to Ogun State where he would contest for a seat in the House of Representatives on the platform of the yet-to-be-registered All Progressives Congress
According to the House committee chairman, the bank will be investigated for tax evasion
Comrade Ogun lamented that over a year after the PIB was presented to the National Assembly, not much has been done
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State made the appeal on Monday when the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Emergency and Disaster Management, Hon. Ifedayo Adekunle, and the Chairman, House Committee on Public Petitions, Hon. Uzo Azubuike, paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Office, Uyo
A bill for an Act on Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) is underway and should it be passed as presented, convicted…
The Osun State born House of Representatives member returned on Thursday night from his honey moon trip to the United Kingdom via Dubai, the United Arabs Emirate
Adoke said going by all relevant laws, his ministry has no power to prosecute murder cases and was therefore shocked that a senior officer in the Ministry of Justice could state that the prosecution of the alleged killers could not go on because of confusion in the investigation