Month: March 2024

BREAKING: Senate suspends Ningi for three months over N3trn budget padding allegations

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The Nigerian Senate has suspended Senator Abdul Ningi for three months over allegations of padding the 2024 Budget.     Ningi was suspended on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, after a long stormy session in the red chamber.   A member of the Appropriation Committee in the Senate, Jimoh Ibrahim, first moved the motion for Ningi’s suspension for 12 months over allegations of criminal misinformation and breach of peace in the National Assembly and the country by extension.   However, other lawmakers like Senator Asuquo Ekpenyong moved for the amendment of…

Why we’re canvassing for living wage for Nigerian Workers – Reps Minority leader, Chinda … insists nobody can earn less than N100k and survive in Nigeria

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House of Representatives Minority caucus leader ,Rep Kingsley Ogundu Chinda has adduced reasons why 42 lawmakers endorsed a motion seeking a living wage for Nigerian workers. The Rivers State born lawmaker alongside 41 lawmakers across the 36 states of the federation and Abuja had last week tabled the timely motion on living wage at plenary. Speaking at a sideline on the motion, Chinda said:” No lawmaker today in Nigeria is happy about the situation in the country. That’s why we’re pushing for a living wage for all Nigerian workers. The…

Former Health Minister dies in US hospital

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Gabriel Aduku, a former Minister of State for Health in Nigeria in the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has passed away.   Aduku, a former chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), died at the age of 80.   According to a source close to the family, late Chief Aduku left Nigeria for United States before his 80th Birthday, which he celebrated on February 3rd, 2024, with some members of the family over there.   A traditional title holder of Amana Ogohi Atta Igala, Chief, Arc. GY. Aduku a…

Akpabio inaugurates ad-hoc Committee to probe N30trn Ways and Means secured under Buhari

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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has inaugurated an ad hoc committee of the Nigeria’s Senate to probe the N30 trillion Ways and Means secured under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.   Last month, the upper legislative chamber resolved to probe the loan, secured during the two terms of Buhari.   The Ways and Means is a loan facility through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provided short-term financing to cover the government’s budget shortfalls.   Before the ninth national assembly wound down, Buhari had asked the lawmakers in…

SOLUDO AND A NEW ANAMBRA STATE (2): ETHICAL AND MORAL REBIRTH By Law Mefor

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A behavioural scientist’s constant concern is with projects and policies that seek to bring about material and physical change without also bringing about a behavioural shift. For a considerable amount of time, Anambra State has been reduced to a place where people travel back for Christmas, to marry, and to be buried. Although Anambra is a really wealthy state, it is not a livable one yet, and the Soludo government has set out to change that. It’s such a difficult task.   It is evident to Soludo that city quality…

Ex Senator Abubakar Sodangi dies at 70

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A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Senator Abubakar Danso Sodangi, is dead.     The former senator, who represented Nasarawa West for 12 years in the Nigerian Senate, breathed his last on Sunday at the age of 70.   Sodangi served as the Chairman of the Campaign Council for the re-election of Governor Abdullahi Sule in 2023.   Sodangi was one of the founding members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was elected Senator in the Nasarawa West Constituency of Nasarawa State in…

Commonwealth of Nations 75th Anniversary:Deputy Speaker Kalu makes special presentation at British House of Commons

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Deputy Speaker of the Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu is due to make a special presentation at the British House of Commons, London, United Kingdom on Tuesday.   The special speech delivery is to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Nations.   The Commonwealth of Nations also called the Commonwealth is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire.   Kalu who arrived London on Sunday, March 10, 2024 is representing the Speaker…

Hardship; Buhari’s pleasure and the rest of Nigerians By Abba Dukawa

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In disguise, former president Muhammadu Buhari’s coming back to power is Allah’s blessing on him that his blindsided supporters cannot pontificate him as a Saint after returning to his creator. Either making his grave a place of seeking Allah’s blessing. Allah in his mercy granted him power again after being a serial loser for three consecutive attempts at presidential elections. Let me make the thing clear I have been Buharist since 2003 but luckily disembarked from directionless vehicle in 2017 two years after realizing his administration would not bring much…

Ajaokuta Steel Company mismanagement: NANS tasks Tinubu on corruption, demands probe

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The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday expressed concerns about misconduct in Ajaokuta Steel Company and urged President Bola Tinubu to order a thorough investigation into reported mismanagement. “If there are individuals or group of individuals protecting the corrupt managers of the Ajaokuta Steel Company and hereby shielding them from any form of probe and judgement, it simply means that they are beneficiaries of the ill-gotten proceeds of the mismanagement or they have other personal interests that are not people-friendly and that are tantamount to water down or…

Ramadan: Deputy Speaker congratulates Muslims,calls for Prayers, Peace

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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and all over the world on another Ramadan, appealing for more prayers for Nigeria to overcome its challenges.   It will be recalled that the Ramadan fasting began on Monday the world over following the sighting of the moon.   In a statement, Kalu urged the Muslims to use the Holy Month to pray for an enhanced peace and security of Nigeria even as he bemoaned the spate of killings and destruction…