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‘Dogara has carefully designed a scheme to scam House Members’ – Jibrin
Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Monday, said that President Muhammadu Buhari would ban Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, from coming to…
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YNaija Editorial: The House of Representatives is a problem to be solved
Abdulmumin Jibrin’s outburst after leaving his position as Chairman of the House appropriations committee, has once again brought the disastrous handling of the 2016 budget process into full focus. His…
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Budget-Padding Tracker: SERAP asks EFCC to investigate Dogara, Jibrin
A rights advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to…
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‘Lawmakers must return salaries for days they did not sit’ – Femi Falana
Senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights activist, Femi Falana has advised the accountant-general of the federation, Ahmed Idris to make sure that federal lawmakers return a huge part…
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Budget-Padding Tracker: Will Dogara suspend Jibrin from the House?
Following pressure from members of the House, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may suspend former Appropriation Committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin, the Nations reports. According to sources who…
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‘Dogara told me to pad 2016 budget with N20bn project’ | Jibrin sings like a bird
Former chairman of the federal house of representatives committee on appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Sunday, accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, of surrounding himself with a cabal of…
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The top 10 stories that made headlines this week
These are the top 10 news that made headlines this week 1. Nigeria is in recession The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has confirmed that the Nigerian economy is in…
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Opinion: Jibrin’s confessions; when the honey is no longer sweet
by Babale Anwar When in December 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2016 budget to the National Assembly, hopes were high that the 'budget of change' has come to revive the…
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Sex scandal: ‘US doesn’t have evidence to prove lawmakers guilty’ – Minister
The three lawmakers who are accused of sexual misconduct by the United States Government during a foreign trip might just have been vindicated by the admissions of the outgoing U.S.…
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THE YNAIJA TRACKLIST: FG admits Nigeria is in a recession | Jibrin blows open legislative secrets | US presidential election build up gets more interesting | More
FG admits Nigeria is technically in a recession but remains confident of growth YNaija EFCC gives breakdown of how recovered loot has been spent so far YNaija Sacked Jibrin says…
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‘To avoid future emasculation of the National Assembly, presiding officers need immunity’ – Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, over the weekend, questioned the method used by the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC). The speaker, who stated this while speaking in…
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Dogara to ring bell at Nigerian Stock Exchange
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara will on Friday ring the bell at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in Lagos. A statement issued by the Special Adviser on…
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Read Buhari’s message to Nigerians on Eid el-Fitri
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday declared Thursday a public holiday in addition to the earlier declared Tuesday and Wednesday. Albeit the delay in the moon-sighting causing the Ramadan…
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‘Work resumes Monday’ | Resident Doctors call off strike
The National Association of Resident Doctors, on Saturday, called on its members to resume work on Monday thus calling off its short-lived strike action. This was made known in a…
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Sex scandal: US has video evidence against 3 ‘randy’ lawmakers
Sources in the United States of America have revealed that relevant authorities in the country are in the possession of 'solid evidence' of sexual misconduct of 3 Nigerians lawmakers. U.S. Ambassador in Nigeria,…
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Life pension, immunity: ‘Senators don’t fear Nigerians’ – Itse Sagay
Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore any bill on life pension and immunity for the principal officers of the National…
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Dogara ‘dumbfounded’, Reps ‘worried’ by sex scandal
The Federal House of Representative has called on Nigerians to wait for the result of the investigation on its members accused of sexual misconduct before judging them in the court…
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Senators push for immunity, life pension for Dogara, Saraki, others
Presiding officers of both chambers in the National Assembly should enjoy immunity and life pension, some Senators have demanded. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the lawmakers stated this…
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Speaker, Dogara speaks on allegation of sexual misconduct
Following the accusation by the US government that three members of the House of Representative committed sexual misconducts, the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, on Saturday, took to social…
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Sex scandal: Nigerian lawmaker goes overboard with rebuttal/denial
The lawmaker representing Benue Gwer east/Gwer west in the House of Representatives, Mark Gbillah has reacted to the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him by the the US ambassador…
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The days of ‘ayes’ and ‘nays’ may soon be over in the House of Reps
The Federal House of Representatives is set to adopt a modern electronic voting pattern and dump its age long voting system of shouting 'aye' and 'nay' in approval and disapproval,…
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Buhari makes another promise (READ)
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, promised not to interfere in the affairs of the legislative and judiciary arm of Government, even as he called the National Assembly to take action…
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This is what Buhari and House of Reps lawmakers will be doing tonight
After surviving the 2016 budget back and forth with the federal lawmakers, President Muhammadu Buhari has invited them for a dinner in Abuja today. According to Punch Newspapers, all 360…
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NLC finally meets Senators, Reps over fuel subsidy and strike (PHOTOS)
The leaders of a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) met with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, and members of the ad-hoc committee on deregulation…
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House of Reps session turns rowdy over discussion on fuel subsidy
Members of the House of Representative, on Monday, held a special session to deliberate on the fuel subsidy removed by the federal government last week. However, the session turned rowdy…
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The moment President Buhari signed the controversial 2016 budget (PHOTOS)
After months of a seemingly endless back and forth between the National Assembly and Presidency, the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. The budget…
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‘Despicable, barefaced lies’ | Yakubu Dogara denies 2016 budget re-padding
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has denied reports by some media outfits that key infrastructural projects were removed from the proposed 2016 budget sent to the…
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‘We’ll block all leakages and strengthen democracy’ | Read Saraki’s response to OBJ’s letter
Senate President Bukola Saraki has issued an official response to the letter written to the National Assembly by former president Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo had forwarded a letter dated Wednesday, January 13,…
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THE YNAIJA TRACKLIST: Trump trumped by Rubio | Reinstated soldiers not yet reinstated | Etisalat loses to MTN | More stories
I won’t work with those who instigate violence - Sheriff. Leadership Jonathan’s former aide, Adegbe is being held based on Army’s directive —EFCC. Vanguard Dismissed soldiers laments non-reinstatement despite presidential…
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Saraki replies Obasanjo’s blistering letter to the Senate
Senate president, Bukola Saraki has penned a reply to the letter sent to the upper chamber of the National Assembly by the a former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. The…
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