Senate Opposes Granting Of Amnesty To Repentant Boko Haram Members

LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Wednesday, stressed its opposition to the granting of amnesty to acclaimed repentant Boko Haram insurgents, saying some of them masterminded recent attack in Damboa, Borno State in which several persons, including an army General was killed. Members of the Committee on Army, who briefed newsmen shortly after the budget defence,…

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INEC Chairman, Yakubu To Step Aside Pending Senate Confirmation Of Reappointment

LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, is today expected to hand over to an acting chairman who will oversee the affairs of the agency pending the confirmation of his (Yakubu) reappointment by the Senate. The ceremony is scheduled to take place at the conference hall of the commission’s…

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Presentation Of 2021 Budget: Senate Slashes President Buhari’s Entourage

LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate said on Wednesday that only those involved in budget preparation would accompany the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the National Assembly on Thursday. The President is expected to present the 2021 national budget estimates to the joint session of the federal parliament on Thursday. The President of the…

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Senate Debunks Ojougboh Claim Receiving N20m As COVID-19 Palliatives From NDDC

LAGOS  SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…

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Water Resources Bill Dead On Arrival- Lawmaker

LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal lawmakers are again smarting for a showdown with their leadership and the presidency once they resume from their annual vacation. The mutual ethnic suspicion in the polity will again reverberate in the consideration of the controversial National Water  Resources Bill 2020, Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed. The bill which was shut down…

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NDDC Crisis: Webster Global Ventures Refutes Pondei’s Claim Of Influencing Contract Payment By Senate

 LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major construction company, Webster Global Ventures Limited, at the weekend described its inclusion in the list of companies allegedly coerced to be paid by the National Assembly as a deliberate effort to destroy the company’s reputation. The company described the statement credited to the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta…

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