36 governors raise 7-man committee on review of Constitution

The thirty-six state governors yesterday raised a seven-member committee to liaise with the National Assembly to agree on areas needing amendment in the 1999 constitution.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, last week listed identified areas for amendment through the memoranda received from Nigerians, and they are: Devolution of powers: State creation: Constitutional recognition of…

Committee on Olympic failure submits report

Photo: Saharareporters.com

Abuja – The committee setup by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has concluded its investigation into Nigeria’s dismal performance at the recently concluded London 2012 Olympics.

Starting with the disqualification of…

GEJ Sets Up Committee To Verify 2011 Subsidy Claims

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday set up another committee that will review the findings of the Aigboje Aig Imoukhuede led Technical Committee set up by the Federal Ministry of Finance to conduct a detailed review of all subsidy claims and payments made in 2011.

The Technical Committee had in the report which it recently submitted to the Ministry of Finance accused some oil marketers of collecting over N400 billion in…

House Members Want Farouk Committee To Sit In Public

Pension Scam Suspect: We Bribed Senate Committee In Dollars

Sani Shu’aibu Teidi, one of the suspects standing trial before the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the massive looting of the pension treasury, has alleged that he and other accomplices paid the Senator Aloysius Etuk-led Senate Committee a N3bn bribe in dollars.

The bribe, it was alleged, was to stall the prosecution of the accused persons.

The bribe scandal took another dimension following the mentioning of the name…

Northern Senators angry over projects, committee assignments

Northern senators are kicking over alleged lopsidedness in the composition of the Senate standing committees and allocation of projects in the 2012 budget.

The North, in their view, has been short-changed and the situation has to be redressed urgently.

They…

Anambra West not marginalized, Transition Committee chairman

From DOM. EKPUNOBI, Onitsha Wednesday May 09, 2012

The Transition Committee Chairman of Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State, Dr. Tony Obierika, has declared that his council area was not marginalized by the State Government.

Dr. Obierika who spoke to Daily…

Belgore committee revisits Abacha draft constitution

•Supports rotational presidency, 5-year single tenure

Written by Olawale Rasheed and Ayodele Adesanmi, Abuja Thursday, 19 April 2012

SEVERAL provisions of the 1995 draft constitution prepared under the late General Sani Abacha may have resurfaced as the 21-member Presidential Committee on the…

Oyo LP Constitutes 11-man Committee To Oversee Party Activities

Written by Ebenezer Adurokiya Saturday, 07 April 2012

An eleven-man interim committee has been inaugrated by the Oyo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) to pilot the activities of the party in the state, just as party members have been encouraged…

National Assembly Fire has nothing to do with N44million bribe investigation says House Committee

Abuja – A House Committee on something has stated categorically that yesterday’s fire outbreak which gutted the Legal and Accounts Departments of the National Assembly Service Commission has NOTHING to do with the ongoing N44million bribery investigation involving former Chairman of the House Committee on capital market, Mr. Herman Hembe.

Patriotic citizens have been advised that any person or persons, DG or messenger, Newspaper or Satire website attempting to imply…