Former Chairman, Uvwie Local Government Council, Mr Henry Baro has join the race for the House of Representatives for the Sapele, Okpe and Uvwie constituency under the All Progressive Party(APC) It will be recalled that Mr. Baro was declared wanted over his alleged involvement in the invasion of the Shoprite in Effurun […]
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After pocketing N32bn, 161 Reps yet to sponsor bill. At least 161 members of the House of Representatives are yet to sponsor a bill more than two years after assuming office, Daily Trust findings have shown. Of the 360 members in the House, only 199 have sponsored at least a bill since their inauguration on […]
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The House of Representatives on Thursday condemned the ‘spurious charges’ levied on Nigerians when they initiate ATM transactions outside their domiciliary banks. The parliament, in a motion supported by the majority, said Nigerians have lost significant sum of money to bank operators with little or no checks by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The CBN […]
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A former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Friday accused some senior lawmakers in the House of living large by appropriating illegal allowances to themselves at the expense of Nigerian taxpayers. The lawmakers, who currently serve in different capacities as principal officers of the House, have allegedly shared more […]
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Full statement from Hon. Abdulmumini Jibrin, former chair of the House of Representatives Committee on appropriation, has denied all the allegations against him in the face of his recent ouster of head of the committee. He released a statement t clarify issues and state his stand on the controversy over his purported sack by Speaker […]
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Legislative efforts are on in the House of Representatives aimed at giving more protection to wage earners in the country and assigning punishment to employers who delay in the payment of wages. A bill on this is currently before the House, seeking to criminalise the late payment of salaries, wages and pension by employers to […]
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As Nigeria battles to salvage its battered corrupt image in the International community, a group of lawmakers from the House of Reps, Mohammed Garba Gololo (APC, Bauchi) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue) have been accused of attempted rape in the United States. The lawmakers who are ten in number, recently travelled to Cleveland, Ohio as […]
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The lawmaker representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo federal constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Linus Okorie has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to get ready for probe as soon as he leaves office. Okorie reminded Buhari of the natural law of ‘what goes around comes around,’ stressing that if Buhari decides to be unfair to his predecessor, […]
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The Yakubu Dogara group in the House of Representatives has released yet another statement condemning the leadership of the All Progressives Congress. In a statement by the group signed by Abdulmumin Jibrin,it lamented that “The APC leadership keeps telling the public that an election was conducted and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila got 154 votes while Hon. […]
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By announcing his membership of another political party prior to the expiry of the tenure of the House for which he was elected, in the absence of either a division in the party which sponsored his nomination into the House of Representatives, or fictionalisation of such a party, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
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