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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Budget Padding Debacle: Presidency Explains Why It Cannot Act Now
The Presidency has reacted to the controversy in the House of Representatives over alleged N42billion constituency projects inserted into the budget at committee level after the...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Budget Padding – Dogara’s Loyalists Divided Over Move to Reconvene House
Members of the House of Representatives loyal to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, are divided over moves to reconvene the House over alleged 2016 budget padding. The...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
I Remain Boko Haram Leader, Al-Barnawi Trying to Plot Coup Against Me – Shekau
Embattled leader of the degraded Boko Haram insurgent group, Abubakar Shekau, has re-asserted his leadership role of the group. Reports had it yesterday that the deadly...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Buhari Reverses Jonathan’s Appointments in TCN Against NASS’s Advice
In what has been described as a show of ‘extreme bile’ towards the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan and a recent attempt to disavow every...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Budget Padding: Police Asks Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa, Ogor to Appear Friday
Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has constituted a five-man special team to probe the alleged padding of the budget by House of Representatives Speaker...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Budget Padding: Rep Jibrin Takes Campaign Against Dogara to Four Anti-Corruption Agencies, Says Speaker Must Fall
A former Chairman of the appropriations committee of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Monday announced that he would be visiting Nigeria’s major anti-corruption agencies...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
N40bn Budget Padding: Step Down for EFCC to Conduct Investigations – SERAP to Dogara
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara to step down from his position...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Dogara Responds to Allegation He Tried Pad N30 Billion into Budget
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday said he would not engage his former ally and House member from Kano State, Abdulmumin...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
No Plan to Impeach Me – Governor Yari
The Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has denied reports that the State House of Assembly has set in motion plans to impeach him. The Department...
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Kiwon Lafiya8 years ago
Sexual Misconduct: US Ambassador Has No Viable Evidence Against Rep Trio – Minister
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, on Thursday, said the outgoing United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, did not have any credible...