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Organised Labour’s reaction to the fuel scarcity doesn’t sound good

Organised labour on Friday, threatened to embark on industrial action if the lingering fuel crisis extends to next year. A press statement issued on Friday said it also commended the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, for directing the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut short its recess to resolve the fuel crisis.... Read More

Fuel crisis, Issa Aremu, Kabiru Marafa, organised labour

July 10, 2017

Enyinnaya Abaribe, Kabiru Marafa are the worst Nigerian senators | YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators

At plenary last Tuesday, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe representing Abia South moved a motion saying there was a vacuum in government because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was not in the country at the time. Abaribe’s motion described by many as a “coup attempt” was seconded by Kabiru Marafa representing Zamfara Central. Speaking on the motion, Abaribe... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Thinking Through

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If yesterday’s attempt to ‘steal’ his government didn’t wake Buhari from the ‘dead’, what else will?

You may have heard that a certain President – not Buhari nor Osinbajo – almost entered the Villa yesterday. Despite the attempt by a number of lawmakers to move Zuma to allow for a Bukola Saraki Acting Presidency, the Senate President held back and shut it down. “I simply want to bring to the attention of... Read More

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Acting President, Buhari, Buhari dead, Buhari on life support, Bukola Saraki, Eyinnaya Abaribe, Kabiru Marafa, NASS

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Show of Force: How the Saraki Senate put the Executive on red alert

by Alexander O. Onukwue Reports have it that there was a botched attempt to make Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as Acting President. In the absence of Prof Osinbajo, who is attending the AU summit at Addis Ababa, a motion was raised by Abia South Senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Kabiru Marafa of Zamfara Central, which portrayed... Read More

Story of the day, Thinking Through

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Acting President ABS: How did Saraki resist the temptation?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Upon the motion by Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe and Kabiru Marafa, he immediately declared that they were “out of order”. But for more than the five minutes it took both to make the case possible, it must have run through Saraki’s mind just how good it would be to eventually become President... Read More

Story of the day, Thinking Through

Drama as senators attempt to declare Saraki Acting President

A mild drama occurred in the Senate on Tuesday after Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe raised an order that there was a vacuum in government because Acting President Yemi Osinbajo was not in the country. Abaribe said there was serious problem in the country because “we have nobody in Nigeria who is at the head of the government”. “I simply... Read More

Acting President, Bukola Saraki, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Kabiru Marafa, Yemi Osinbajo

January 12, 2017

Any attempt to remove Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President is a call for anarchy – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has described a statement credited to Senator Kabiru Marafa which he made on the floor of the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, as unconstitutional, undemocratic. Marafa had advised Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu to decamp to the All Progressive Congress (APC) in order to retain his seat. He said, “I am using... Read More

anarchy, APC, defection, Ike Ekweremadu, Kabiru Marafa, PDP, senate

July 21, 2016

Just In: Saraki reconstitutes Senate committees; Tinubu, Marafa get ‘choice’ portfolios

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday announced the reshuffling of the leadership of Senate’s committees. Saraki made the announcement before the close of plenary today. A top critic of Saraki, Kabiru Marafa, was appointed chairman of the Petroleum (downstream) Committee. He was chairman of the Committee on National Population. Also, Oluremi Tinubu, a key... Read More

Kabiru Marafa, Oluremi Tinubu, reshufflement, Saraki, Senate committees

February 22, 2016

‘Nobody can suspend me from the Senate’ – Marafa boasts

The Senator representing Zamfara central, Kabiru Marafa has boasted that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, cannot suspend him from the upper chamber of the National Assembly. Saraki had on Tuesday, referred Marafa, who is the spokesperson of the Senate Unity Forum, to the Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions. This was subsequent to the point of... Read More

Bukola Saraki, Kabiru Marafa, senate, suspend

June 22, 2015