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Most Nigerian Youths Are High On Drugs, Says Lagos Lawmaker

Most Nigerian Youths Are High On Drugs, Says Lagos Lawmaker

October 29, 2020 9:11 pm

The lawmaker representing Amuwo Odofin constituency 1 of Lagos State, Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, says most Nigerian youths are high on drugs all the time.

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Alli-Macaulay said this during a plenary at the Lagos State House of Assembly on the looting and pandemonium in the wake of the #EndSARS protest that was hijacked by hoodlums.

The lawmaker said, ‘The National Orientation Agency needs to get to work. We need to begin to orientate our young people. They need people who can talk to them from time to time. They are high on …

#EndSARS - Lagos lawmaker to donate N10m to victims

#EndSARS: Lagos Lawmaker To Donate ₦10m To Victims

October 24, 2020 5:30 am

Mr Temitope Adewale, a Lagos lawmaker, says he has earmarked ₦10 million emergency relief fund for victims of the #EndSARS clash at Fagba area of the state.

Adewale, representing Ifako-Ijaye Constituency 1 in Lagos House of Assembly, made this known to newsmen in Lagos on Friday.

There was bloody violence, burning, and looting in Ifako-Ijaiye area this week under the guise of #EndSARS protest.

Adewale said that the fund was to give respite to victims of the sad occurrence which claimed many lives in Fagba, Iju, and Abattoir areas of Ifako-Ijaye, Lagos.’

‘It is with deep sorrow in my heart

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Another Federal Lawmaker Dies In Dubai Hospital

January 1, 2020 9:37 am

Member representing Garki/Babura federal House of Representatives, Hon. Adamu Muhammad Fagen-Gowo, is dead.

NAN gathered that Fagen-Gowo died at the age of 74 in Dubai Hospital after battling leg problems, which he travelled for medical attention.

His death was confirmed to NAN by a relative of the deceased, Muhammad Had Inuwa(Walwala).

He said the deceased left behind 10 children and two wives.

The Federal lawmaker was elected as a member of Federal House of Representatives representing Garki/Babura in 2015 and was reelected for a second term in the 2019 general election.

Also, the chairman of the All Progressives Party in …

Lawmaker Slumps, Dies

December 31, 2019 5:25 am
A member of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Isah Harisu, is dead.

The lawmaker passed away on Monday during plenary.

Harisu, the representative of Kebbe Constituency, was said to have arrived the assembly complex in seeming good health.

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THISDAY gathered that he later showed signs of discomfort, slumped and died.

Deputy Speaker, Abubakar Magaji, who confirmed his death, said that the lawmaker, a member of the APC, who represented Kebbe constituency, was rushed to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital when he slumped in the morning.

“When he

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(Video) American Lawmaker Condemns Sowore’s Rearrest

December 7, 2019 8:11 am

A United States senator, Bob Menendez, has condemned the brazing harrasment and rearrest of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters and the Convener of #RevolutionNow, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, by Department of State Services, adding that he hopes US would reassess its bilateral relations with Nigeria over the rearrest of Sowore and other journalists.

Sowore and another activitist, Olawale Bakare, were rearrested barely few hours after their release from the DSS custody where they had been in the last four months.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had on Thursday December 5, frowned on the continued detention of the defendants despite court order to …

UK Lawmaker Blames HSBC Over Corruption In S. Africa

November 18, 2019 12:50 pm
British lawmaker Peter Hain said corruption under South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma was enabled by international banks, companies, and governments which should now seek to recover the loot they helped to launder.

Hain made this known on Monday in his submission to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.

HSBC, Standard Chartered, and India’s Bank of Baroda, as well as their senior directors, were “directly culpable” in the looting of South Africa’s treasury under Zuma.

The British lawmaker was invited to give evidence because he had already named several corporates he was investigating under parliamentary privilege …

APC Lawmaker Accuses Segalink Of Libel, Demands ₦3bn

APC Lawmaker Accuses Segalink Of Libel, Demands ₦3bn

October 31, 2019 3:03 pm

Activist and convener of EndSARS movement Segun Awosanya, Segalink has been accused of making defamatory statements against a member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives.

Wole Olanipekun Chambers, lawyers to Abdulmumin Jubrin, an All Progressive Congress representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency in Kano State, said Awosanya made libellous and defamatory publications against their clients on twitter.

On October 17, Segalink in a tweet thread alleged that Jubrin has “17 bank accounts local and foreign despite signing a CCB form that he had no foreign account.”

“I showed the world documents and modus of siphoning money from MDAs after appropriation, till date @officialEFCC …

Kenyan lawmaker beats up female colleague

June 13, 2019 9:38 am

A member of the Kenyan Parliament representing Wajir East, Rashid Kassim has been arrested hours after allegedly assaulting Wajir County Woman Representative Fatuma Gedi.

Wajir Woman Representative Fatuma Gedi was allegedly beaten up on Thursday morning by Wajir East MP Rashid Amin in the parliament building.

It is alleged that Gedi engaged him in a heated discussion before she was assaulted by the MP.

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The MP demanded to know why Gedi, who is a member of the budget committee, did not allocate any money to his Wajir East constituency.

Gedi narrated …

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