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The Senate and the House of Representatives have extended the date for resumption plenary sessions, which was earlier scheduled for Tuesday, July 21. Members are now expected to resume July 28. This was made known by the the Clerk of the House of Representatives, M. A. Sani-Omolori, who released an official notice of the postponement. “This is to inform all Honourable members of the House of Representatives of the postponement of resumption of plenary session from adjourned date of Tuesday, 21st July to Tuesday, 28th July 2015,” Mr. Sani-Omolori said in his statement. Also, a source close to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, told PREMIUM TIMES that the Senate “has also extended its resumption to July 28″. According to our source, the postponement became imperative because of the crisis rocking the National Assembly, especially the House of Representatives, over the choice of legislators that will clinch the principal positions of the Nigerian legislative arm. Plenary se...

■The multi-billion dollar terror fund link ■ $40,000 cash, 3 guns, travel documents recovered in DSS search Contrary to in­sinuations that President Mu­hammadu Bu­hari ordered the arrest of former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Da­suki because he was the Army officer who led sol­diers to arrest him (Bu­hari) on the day he was overthrown as military Head of State in August 1985, facts emerging from the security circle indi­cate that the retired Army Colonel is wanted in con­nection with multi-billion dollar funds domiciled in his office as NSA. Between Thursday eve­ning and 6pm yesterday (Friday), Department of State Security Service (DSS) operatives had been searching for Dasuki in his Abuja and Sokoto homes. Though, he was believed to be in his Abuja home. He eventually allowed the DSS detectives to enter his house to execute a search warrant. At the end of the search, it was learnt that items recovered from the house included $40,000, three automatic rifles and his tr...

In a very rare show of affection, Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor, member Representing Okigwe South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives has released pictures of himself, in the kitchen, preparing his own meal, in a bid to give his wife, Deaconess Akudo Chike Okafor a treat. This is sequel to the successful First Graduation ceremony on Friday, 17th July, 2015, of Mountain Crest School, where Deaconess Akudo Chike Okafor is the proprietress. It will be recalled that Hon. Chike Okafor could not celebrate his wife's birthday, earlier in the year, in grand style, but rather, they agreed that she should mark it quietly with family and friends in the house, owing to the fact that it coincided with the tight electioneering campaign period. So he taught it wise, to make out time, to make it up to his wife of over a decade, on yet another special Occasion. We can now confidently say that Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor is a Banker, singer, Evangelist, philanthropist, publ...

Friday, 17th July, 2015 may have come and gone, but the fond memories of the First Graduation/Second step up ceremony of Mountain Crest School will live on, till eternity, in the living record of the memory of each and everyone that gathered at Art Nouveau, event centre, Owerri, to grace the Occasion. From the on-set, it was obvious that the proprietress of the school, Deaconess Akudo Chike Okafor, wife of the member Representatiing Okigwe South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor had a whole lot packaged to keep the guests enthralled till late in the evening. The children did not let her down, by any means, but rather surpassed the expectations of the parents that were drawn from all walks of life. The finese and masterful touch with which these kids were being trained was easily drawn attention to. From the mock news, to the drama cum teaching on health, to the discussion sessions down to the French drama all had a message or two t...

A new all time high in power generation has been recorded as the country attained 4,656 megawatts (mw) on Wednesday this week, breaking the recent all time high record of 4,545mw attained a few days ago, according to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). All generated power has been successfully wheeled by the national grid network, a press release by the TCN, signed yesterday by the general manager, Public Affairs, Seun Olagunju, informed, and noted that the new peak was attained at 10pm on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. The TCN management, a few days ago announced the attainment of a 4,545mw-peak transmission in the national grid on Monday, July 13, 2015, with the previous record peak power transmission of 4,517mw attained on December 23, 2012. “Power generation and transmission have been above 4,000mw following improvements in gas supply to the generating stations as well as equipment and infrastructure upgrade and enhanced human capacity of system operators,” the company s...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dissolution of the Governing Boards of all federal parastatals, agencies and institutions. According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the dissolution takes effect from Thursday. Adesina said until the boards are reconstituted, Chief Executive Officers of the affected parastatals, agencies and institutions are to refer all matters requiring the attention of their boards to the President through the Permanent Secretaries of their supervising ministries. He said the dissolution does not affect Federal Executive Bodies listed in the 1999 Constitution. He however said the dissolution order covers administrative or technical committees and other similar organs established by the now dissolved boards.

Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara HIS FIRST PLENARY SESSION AT THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ABUJA ON WEDNESDAY (10/6/15). RELATED NEWS APC loyalist lawmakers reply Dogara faction, insists on Gbajabiamila as Majority LeaderJuly 8, 2015 House Crisis: APC lawmakers vow to ensure Speaker Dogara obeys partyJune 25, 2015 NASS Crisis: Speaker Dogara's group concedes House Leader to Gbajabiamila's factionJuly 8, 2015 NASS Crisis: What Buhari told APC Reps at Wednesday’s meetingJuly 2, 2015 ANALYSIS: Gbajabiamila or Dogara: Who leads the 8th Session of the House of Representatives?June 9, 2015 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has replied a letter written by the national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, to him on June 23, 2015, directing him to appoint party nominees as principal officers. Mr. Dogara in his reply, dated July 16, 2015, recalled his earlier claim that a court case institu...