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2023 I’m Worried That APC Is Losing Senators – Adamu

2023: I’m Worried That APC Is Losing Senators – Adamu

June 23, 2022 1:09 am

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has expressed serious concerns over the gale of defections rocking the ruling party.

Africa Daily News, New York has earlier reported that no fewer than seven senators had dumped APC for other opposition parties after they failed to secure the governing party’s ticket to contest the 2023 elections in the last one week.

Amongst the members of the red chambers who have so far defected from the APC are Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi) Adamu Aliero (Kebbi), Dauda Jika (Bauchi), Ahmad Babba …

Uwajumogu: What Oshiomhole Said About Imo Senator’s Death

December 21, 2019 9:56 am
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has reacted to the death of Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu.

Oshiomhole described the late lawmaker as one of the most principled and focused lawmakers at the National Assembly.

The Edo State Governor spoke when he visited the family of the late Senator in Abuja, in company with the National Organizing Secretary of the APC, Barrister Emma Ibediniro, and the governorship candidate of the APC in Imo State in the last general election, Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Friday.

Oshiomhole’s Chief Press Secretary, Simon Ebegbulem, quoted him as saying that “I

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22 Former Nigerian Govs, 11 Serving Senators Under Probe

December 20, 2019 4:54 am

Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has claimed that 22 former governors are currently under investigation for corruption.

Malami stated this on Thursday, while addressing journalists in Abuja.

He pointed out that at least three ex-Governors – Joshua Dariye (Plateau), Jolly Nyame (Taraba) and Orji Kalu (Abia) – have been convicted under President Muhammadu Buhari.

“It might interest you to note that former state governors and even serving senators are not spared.

“Currently, high profile personalities including judicial officers and former governors indicted for corruption have been prosecuted and many sentenced to jail.

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2023: Opposition Members Not Safe Anymore – PDP Senators

November 21, 2019 7:11 am

Senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have expressed doubts over the ability of security agents to protect members of the opposition during the 2023 general elections.

They said the violence that characterised Kogi and Bayelsa gubernatorial elections was a pointer to what lies ahead in 2023 when the country return to the poll.

Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, also called on the Inspector-General of Police to fish out culprits who burnt a PDP woman leader to death in Kogi State.

He said the impunity that greeted the

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Hate

A Senator’s Hate Speech

November 18, 2019 10:53 am

By the time you read this, Bayelsa and Kogi states will have (s)elected new governors. While Senator Diri Douye is aiming to fit into the big shoes of Countryman Governor, Seriake Dickson, the APC and  its candidate, David Lyon are determined to dislodge PDP from the Government House where it had been landlord since 1999.

To be able to achieve their aim, both fair and foul means are game to the combatants in the two states. Already, few heads have been blown off and blood is still flowing in the streets of the confounded states. Decent minds are mystified that …

United States Senators Call For Security Probe Of TikTok

United States Senators Call For Security Probe Of TikTok

October 24, 2019 4:22 pm

Two senior US senators called for the government to study national security risks possibly posed by Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it could leave American users vulnerable to Beijing’s spying.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Tom Cotton asked the Directorate of National Intelligence to “conduct an assessment of the national security risks” posed by TikTok.

“With over 110 million downloads in the US alone, TikTok is a potential counterintelligence threat we cannot ignore,” they said.

Schumer and Cotton suggested that TikTok’s owner ByteDance could be forced to share user information with Chinese intelligence.

It could also conceivably …

Senators Express Worries Over ₦10tn Budget Viability

Senators Express Worries Over ₦10tn Budget Viability

October 10, 2019 2:03 am

The Senate Wednesday began debate on the 2020 budget estimates with senators divided over the viability of the ₦10.33 trillion Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The debate of the budget proposal began at 11 a.m. and lasted till about 3 p.m. with many senators across party lines describing the budget as lacking focus, while others said the fiscal proposal was not sustainable because it was based on taxation. No fewer than 16 senators spoke yesterday and they expressed divergent views on it.

Leading the debate, Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, highlighted the principles …

₦900b probe: Senators, Reps to return fake projects funds

₦900b probe: Senators, Reps to return fake projects funds

June 18, 2019 12:26 am

Investigators are hitting the road today in search of lawmakers’ ₦900b constituency projects in states.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is verifying constituency projects executed by immediate past senators and members of the House of Representatives.

The commission said it will make recoveries on projects/contracts confirmed to have been inflated or in which contractors underperformed or did not perform at all.

To be verified are 180 key projects in the 36 states at the rate of five per state.

The probe covers projects between 2015 and 2018 embarked upon by members of the 8th National …

₦1trn projects: ICPC to probe Senators, Reps

April 2, 2019 9:04 pm

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) yesterday said senators and members of the House of Representatives who failed to execute constituency projects will be prosecuted.

Also, all companies engaged for the failed or abandoned projects will face trial.

But the commission, however, opposed to plea bargain by corrupt elements because the nation’s laws allow it.

Over N1trillion has been released by the Federal Government for constituency projects since 1999. The funds include the N200 billion by the administration of Jubril (President Muhammadu Buhari) from 2015 to 2017.

More than 2,345 senators and representatives have benefitted from
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Breaking: Ahmed Lawan wins Senate presidency election

Group appeals to senators-elect to support Lawan

March 24, 2019 2:40 pm

The Sustainable Democracy Agenda (SUDA), a pro-democracy group, has urged senators-elect to support the bid of Sen. Ahmad Lawan, representing Yobe North, for the position of President of the 9th Senate.

The group’s convener, Malam Ibrahim Usman, made the appeal in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.

Usman said the move would ensure a united and vibrant senate ready to face the onerous legislative works ahead.

“Our position on this is in line with the Senate. He has remained one of the most productive lawmakers since the beginning of the present dispensation in 1999.

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Two policemen shot in Bayelsa Senator’s hotel

March 16, 2019 7:25 pm

Suspected gunmen have again ravaged Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, shooting two policemen in a popular hotel and killing another at the Joepal Shopping mall in Amarata.

Also, the hoodlums carted away two rifles belonging to the cops, before shooting in the air to scare away passersby.

The attack on the first two policemen, who were on guard duty took place at Udeme Hotels along Diepreye Alamieyeseigha road in Yenagoa, belonging to Senator Emmanuel Paulker, who is representing Bayelsa Central Senatorial district of the senate.

The gunmen reportedly caught the security operatives unaware as they posed as customers before opening …

100 senators-elect, 338 Reps. get Certificates of Return

March 14, 2019 9:53 pm

EXCEPT the court decides otherwise, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha will not represent the Imo West Senatorial District when the Ninth National Assembly is inaugurated on June 8.

He was not among the senators presented with Certificates of Return (CoRs) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja yesterday.

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