Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara met President Muhammadu Buhari at about 2:25 pm on Friday, to discuss an issue suspected to be the budget padding scandal rocking the House of Representatives.On leaving the President’s office at exactly 2:58 pm, Dogara told reporters that he has never heard of “budget padding” and that […]
Continue ReadingThe leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), apparently embarrassed by the budget padding allegation being levelled against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara by Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the federal house of representatives, has ordered Jibrin not to make any further comment on budget padding. The party gave the order […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled former chairman of the appropriation committee of the house of representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Tuesday alleged that the Department of State Services (DSS) saved him from the plot of kidnap by Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives. The lawmaker gave credit to his lawyers, who had to come to his aid by […]
Continue ReadingMr. Femi Falana (SAN), has called for investigation and prosecution of federal lawmakers involved in the padding of the 2016 budget, but said the Department of State Service does not have the moral and legal rights to carry out the probe. The Human rights lawyer made his position known in a statement on Sunday, stating that […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of the House of Representatives committee on appropriation, Abdulmimin Jibrin, has posited that President Muhammadu Buhari would ban Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house along with his senior cabal, from the presidential villa if he had any clue of their real nature. Jibrin is involved in a battle with the leadership of the […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of the Federal House of Representatives appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has revealed that Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the house, is nothing but a hypocrite, alleging that Dogara is dining with the enemies of President Muhammadu Buhari. He said he was removed as the chairman of appropriation committee because he refused to yield to […]
Continue ReadingAlhaji Alhassan Doguwa, (APC, Doguwa/Tudun Wada Constituency), Chief Whip, House of Representatives said on Sunday in Bauchi that the House had no single evidence of impeachable offence against President Muhammadu Buhari.Fielding questions from newsmen, Doguwa, representing Doguwa/Tudun Wada Constituency in Kano State, said no such issue was contemplated in the House of Representatives. “As far […]
Continue ReadingInvestigations of the sexual misconduct allegations against three members of House of Representatives was stalled on Thursday due to failure of U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, to honour the invitation of the Committee set up to investigate the allegations. The House of Representatives had set up a committee headed by Nicholas Ossai, to investigate […]
Continue ReadingThe House of Representatives on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to halt any plan to increase electricity tariff by 100 per cent in the country. This followed the unanimous adoption of a motion under matters of urgent public importance raised by Rep. Aliyu Madaki (APC-Kano). Moving the motion, Madaki said that the plan by Electricity […]
Continue ReadingAccording to the speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, “politics in Nigeria is not a straitjacket approach”, so you do not expect any individual to remain a of a political party “forever”. According to The Nation, Dogara, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said this while addressing reporters in Lagos, […]
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