The Adamawa North Senatorial District Senator-elect, Binta Garba, on Thursday said she would unite the upper legislative chamber if she is elected as the first female Senate President in Nigeria
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According to her, as the only female Senator from the North, her interest to vie for the Senate Presidency is to bring transparency into the leadership of the red chamber.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja, the three-term member of the House of Representatives, said she had written to all her colleagues and other Nigerians on the need to support her bid to emerge as the first female Senate President in Nigeria.
The Benue State House of Assembly complex was on Thursday shut down over intensive plot by the lawmakers to impeach the speaker, Terhile Ayua and Governor Gabriel Suswam.
The lawmakers, including members of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had held an emergency session on Wednesday to collect signatures so as to impeach the speaker.
The action of the assembly members is hinged on the speakers’ alleged inability to defend their welfare before the executive arm of government hence their salaries were owed and that the speaker also connived with the governor, without the consent of members to approve and assent the bills for revenue administration and chieftaincy appointment.
In the past 3 days, a sum total of 453 women and girls have been rescued by the Nigerian Army from the Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram.
The first set -about 200 girls and 93 women were rescued from Sambisa forest on Tuesday, April 28.
After the recapture of the females, there was widespread optimism that some of them were part of the 219 girls abducted from their school in Chibok in April 2014.
A former aide to ex-Edo State governor, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, Patrick Ebogboidin, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment over his involvement in a N25billion money laundering case instituted against him and five others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Also jailed was a younger brother to the ex-governor, Michael, who bagged six years jail term.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar says the current fuel scarcity in the country was caused by the People’s Democratic Party.
While speaking to journalists on Wednesday, after a private meeting with the President-Elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence House in Abuja, Atiku said the trademark of the PDP is inefficiency and corruption.
Speaking on the meeting with Buhari, he said: “We just discussed private matters. Well, there is nothing unusual in what is going on. That is PDP for you: corruption inefficiency and what have you. Real changes will come.”
Ambassador Toye Olofintuyi from Ekiti State was sworn in as Commissioner in the Civil Service Commission (FCSC), representing Ekiti, Edo and Ondo States.
Ambassador Abudullahi Shinkafi from Zamfara State was sworn in as Commissioner, Federal Character Commission (FCC).
In his remarks, Jonathan charged the two commissioners to bring their wealth of experience to bear in their new assignment.
According to him, the FCSC and the FCC were designed to stabilise the country.
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