As part of activities marking the 2022 workers day celebration, the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on Sunday, lamented the refusal of Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa led administration to pay senior citizens their pensions and gratuities after serving the State meritoriously. Omo-Agege’s concern was contained in a statement signed by the Special […]
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Senators-elect Ovie Omo-Agege (APC-Delta) has been elected the deputy senate president of the 9th Senate. He defeated Senator Ike Ekeweremadu. The election followed the announcement of the position by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Mohammed Sani-Omolori at the Tuesday’s inauguration ceremony in Abuja. While Omo-Agege, who represents Delta Central Senatorial District, was nominated […]
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Senator Ali Ndume and Ovie Omo-Agege, on Tuesday appeared before a joint panel of the House of Representatives and the senate to answer questions regarding their roles in the mace theft saga. However, Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central, refused to testify before an ad hoc committee of the national assembly, insisting he would not […]
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Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege on Wednesday appeared before the Senate in plenary. Omo-Agege was seen signing the attendance register within the upper chamber. The Senate on April 12, suspended Omo-Agege (APC-Delta) over a “dissenting comment’’ on decision of the Upper Chamber on adoption of conference report on Electoral Act (2010) […]
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The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said action taken by the Senate in the suspension of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is unlawful and unconstitutional. The Attorney General gave this view while making a submission yesterday in the hearing of the suit by Omo-Agege challenging his suspension by the […]
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Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta central, has been barred from gaining entry into the Senate. Sen. Ben Murray-Bruce, the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, told The Punch that the sergeants-at-arm and security personnel had been ordered to block the lawmaker whenever he tries to enter the chamber. He said Omo-Agege had been […]
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The Federal Government has ordered an enquiry into the invasion of the National Assembly and the subsequent snatching of the Senate mace by thugs on Wednesday. The government also expressed shock about the incident. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the security agencies […]
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Pandemonium is the word that aptly describes the scene at the senate on Wednesday, after suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, from Delta state, stormed the senate with thugs, carting away the mace in the process. Omo-Agege was said to have sneaked in through one of the glass barricades within the national assembly before the mace was […]
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