Dogara said this on Friday during an inspection tour of the ongoing work at the permanent site of the National Institute for Legislative Studies along Airport Road, Abuja.
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to deploy more troops to Zurmi and Shinkafi local government areas of Zamfara due to the increasing spate of insecurity in the affected areas.
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday acknowledged the receipt of the 2019-2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper from President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has condemned the assassination attempt on the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son, by gunmen.
This followed a motion by Hon. Ahmed Safana at the plenary.
The tribute followed a letter by Hon. Segius Oguns and read by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, notifying the House of the demise of Anenih.
The lawmakers made their defections known in separate letters read by Speaker Yakubu Dogara on the floor of the house.
Dogara said the Act when amended will accommodate trafficking courts, membership of the Board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Dogara, in a condolence message on Sunday in Abuja, described Chief Anenih’s death as a huge loss not only to Edo state but to the nation as a whole.
Dogara gave the advice in an address to his supporters at a rally in Bogoro, on Saturday.
Haruna, a prosecution witness, said this while he was testifying before court on Wednesday.
Dogara said;” The development was sequel to the need to fill some of the existing vacancies in the house.”
The House of Representatives says it will investigate, reveal and make public, the identities of those indicted in the looting of the defunct Nigerian Airways Ltd. to the tune of N60 billion.
The lawmakers are: Hassan Omale and Muhammad Soba.
The advice is sequel to a motion, under matters of urgent public importance, moved by Hon. Uchechukwu Nnam-Obi at plenary, on the need to address the plight of communities sacked by flood in Rivers.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday began an investigation into the alleged gross misconduct and corruption levied against the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf.
Eminent Nigerians such as former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida; former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress
The lawmakers, who made the condemnation at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, in Abuja on Tuesday, also observed a minute silence for the deceased.
The call came in a motion under matters of urgent National importance by Rep. Edward Pwajok at Thursday’s plenary.
The protesters had barricaded the back entrance to the National Assembly White House, through which the presiding officers enter.