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UPDATES...

* A senator moves the motion that votes and proceedings of 8/10, be approved as senate asks for closed door session

* Closed door session over. Senate now opened for access

* Plenary about to resume

* The Senate chamber has been announced to ready for the business of the day...SP, now speaking

* Udoma Udoma...cleared

* Fayemi...This man is sound, biko. He is not just a politician, he is at the same time a technocrat

* Audu Ogbeh..This man is a politician. After answering few questions(intelligently), he said what the senators wanted to hear. He said "Majority of Nigerians complain that the senators receive much(salary wise), but they don't know the pressure you people go through"... He was asked to take a bow and go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPS7rHsk9WY

The Nigerian senate will Tuesday (today) in Abuja begin the screening of the first batch of ministerial nominees forwarded to it by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The nominees include Nigerians drawn from across the states and different professions.
The batch include the spokesperson of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed; former governors Chibuike Amaechi and Babatunde Fashola; Abubakar Malami; former defence chief, Abdurahman Dambazzau; former governorship candidate in Taraba state, Aisha Alhassan; Adebayo Shittu; former senator, Udo Udoma and Ibrahim Jibril.
Others are Suleiman Adamu; former senator, Chris Nigige; Kemi Adeosun; Ahmed Ibeto and Hadi Sirika.

Also expected to appear before the upper legislative chamber are former PDP chairman, Audu Ogbeh; former Abia governor, Ogbonnaya Onu; NNPC group managing director, Ibeh kachikwu; Amina Mohammed; Solomon Dalong; Suleiman Adamu; and former Ekiti governor, Kayode Fayemi.

PREMIUM TIMES’ national assembly correspondent, Adebayo Hassan, is in the senate chambers and will bring you live updates of the session, expected to kickoff at 10:00 a.m. Nigerian time

Live Updates

9.38.Former Ekiti Governors and APC Chieftains, Niyi Adebayo and Segun Oni, arrived National Assembly to boost Kayode Fayemi’s morale before the Senate during the screening

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Ministerial nominee, Amina Mohammed, arriving the Senate

9.43.Kaduna ministerial nominee, Amina Mohammed, arrives

9.51.APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, arrives the National Assembly

10:04Ahead of the screening session, slated to commence at 11am, the Senate gallery is now filled to the brim, especially by associates and family members of the nominees. Many people are locked out.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/191423-nigeria-senate-screens-buharis-ministers-live-updates.html

Stay tuned...

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madridguy:
I am die hard PMB follower too but this article is must read for every PMB supporter. Please take your time and read it. Ijoba Buhai ko ni baje

ok, bro.

OZAOEKPE:
"midolian will soon come and comment".

the moment I saw Femi Aribisala, I stopped reading. He has been against Buhari from the womb

modath:
But the thing funny die nah & you too know it ..

Reminds me of one deeper life wedding i attended, i still laugh anytime i remember it...

lool..

What about the deeper life wedding?

modath:
Ok, i won't laugh next time..



It is a progressives' union & it is beautiful in our sight.

On a tree?

montezz:
Wow! Thanks! Midolian abeg take gud e-care of my friend o. Joseph1832,she's finally approve our e-love o!

trust me on that

Aminat508:
lmao no be u na joseph1832 and montezz.

loool

modath:

*embarrassed*

Aminat508:
sweeerie

No sweerie me o! You don deny me cos I be branch manager

OZAOEKPE:
"longest time no mention bro, hope you great? Genea don leave me for another man, I'm currently single and searching".

yea, I am..thanks bro. Hope you are great too.

Why are all these girls leaving you na? Genea of all people! "If dem tell me say na water go boil fish done, I go say na lie"

OZAOEKPE:
"that's midolian and aminat508". Quote me anywhere

God go help you..lol

If that's not you and Genea, then its you and somebody else..

Aminat508:
haaa btw ozaoekpe no be me fa. Me I get small body especially the upper parts. Maybe na Midolian and another girl

so na me u com put for middle now, abi? Kontinu

Loool..NTA can hide everything but never its partisanship

He boasts of 9lives, Now they ll have to take them one by one

The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the last Kwara Central senatorial election, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, alleging criminal falsification of the election result by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

The petition, dated September 18, 2015 and signed by Azeez Adegoke of Sundry Law Office, on behalf Mr. Abdulrazaq, is asking the Inspector General to investigate the alleged forgery of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s Form EC 8D and Form EC 8E signed by an aide of Mr. Saraki, Ladi Hassan, and the collation/returning officer, Mulkah Ahmed, declaring Mr. Saraki winner of the poll while election is yet to be concluded and votes are still being collated.

The forms were signed on March 28, the petitions says.

The petitioner argued that election results were still being collated on 29 March, 2015 and results were formally announced INEC on 30 March, 2015.

It says even Mr. Saraki acknowledged that point when he posted a statement by his media aide, Bamikole Omishore, on his Facebook page on March 30 declaring the result as the final return of the poll and thanking his supporters for his victory.
Describing the result as a “nice little work of amateur fiction”, Mr. Abdulrazaq said the result was apparently prepared prior to the election date for the specific purpose of announcing Mr. Saraki as winner of the poll.

He said Mr. Saraki and the INEC collation officer violated the provision of the Section 69 of the Electoral Act, 2010, by announcing a result that was not a product of counting the total number of votes cast by voters.

“Section 69 of the Electoral Act, 2010, as amended, provides that ‘the result (of an election) shall be ascertained by counting the votes cast for each candidate’ and subject to sections 133, 134 & 179 of the Constitution before any candidate is declared elected by a Returning Officer.

“Where, therefore, a final election return has been made before all votes cast have been counted and their validity determined, as in the instant case, such a declaration must of necessity be taken as incomplete, fraudulent and a nullity. Hence, our client contends that Dr (Mrs) Ahmed, Alhaji Hassan and, by extension, Dr Saraki manifestly violated section 69 of the Act. And knowingly so,” he said.
The petitioner observed that the result sheet signed on March 28 was only signed by Mr. Hassan, who acted as agent for the All Progressives Congress in the election and the collation officer.

“It is instructive that it was only Dr Saraki, among all the candidates, that had the result that forenoon. It’s also curious that the copy of the election result that was signed by the Returning Officer and admitted in evidence by the election Tribunal was signed by only one party agent ¾ that of Dr Saraki and the APC,” the petition read.

According to the petitioner, strangely enough Mr. Saraki relied on the alleged concocted result in his defence at the election tribunal arguing that the election petition against him should be struck out for being status barred.

“It speaks volumes, too, that the two documents were tendered on oath by Alhaji Hassan to the election Tribunal, whom Dr Saraki asked to strike out the Petition against him, claiming that it was statute-barred as the election return was made on 28th March 2015 and the Petition was filed on 19th April — one day more than the 21 days allowed by section 285(5) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) which states thus: ‘An election petition shall be filed within 21 days after the date of the declaration of result of the elections’. Unsure of his defence, and having himself refused to appear or call any witness in his cause before the Tribunal, Dr Saraki wants the case decided not on its merit but on technicality — and a contrived one at that.

“It is, then, our client’s belief that the dodgy documents were the culmination of a process that operated in a way as to produce a fixed outcome, which it did; and which Dr Saraki and co perversely tried to ensure the electoral heist they pulled off is allowed to stand at the election Tribunal. Awful as it surely is, what is grotesquely evil and disturbing is not that they rigged the election. Rather, it’s that they sought to cover up their crimes with an even more obscene one; and, then, even have the chutzpah to blame the main victim.

“Under cross-examination on oath by INEC’s Counsel at the election Tribunal, Mr Tunde Salako, the INEC Head of Legal Unit in Kwara State, who was subpoenaed by the Petitioner, claimed that the purported election result was declared on 29th March 2015 ¾ a testimony that at once violently tears into the integrity and legality of [the results].”
Contacted, Mr. Saraki’s spokesperson, Bankole Omishore, said he was not aware of the petition and could not comment on it. He said the senate president will respond once the police sends them the petition.

The police also told PREMIUM TIMES they will need days to confirm receipt of the petition.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191394-pdp-senatorial-candidate-accuses-saraki-of-forgery-petitions-police.html

Lalasticlala

omenka:
How was he dressed Mr Okupe??

He probably disguised as a woman, so there is every possibility the bastard has mistaken someone else for him


But on a more serious note, Only God knows those that ll make heaven. Alamieyeseigha might even be better than Buhari in God's eyes

Ibrahim Usman Jibril

-Instructor in Map Reading with the Nigerian Army School of Artillery, Kachia – Kaduna state, Nigeria, N.Y.S.C
-Secretary of the Technical Committee on Rural Lands within the FCT,
Land Use and Allocation Committee of the FCT
Task term on Computerization of the Cadastral and Land Registry of the FCT Which led to the establishment of Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS), a body that is the only official source of geospatial information for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja – Nigeria.
-Ministerial Committee for the Appraisal of Physical Planning and Development Issues within the FCT
 
-Nasarawa Geographic Information System (NAGIS) Project Manager,
-Abuja Geological Information Service (AGIS) Staff
Development Control Abuja Deputy Director
Gov Al-makura cabinet SSA NAGIS
 
Hon. (Dr.) Ahmed Musa Ibeto

-He was elected Chairman of the then Magama Local Government under the zero party system.
-He was the State Chairman of the National Republican Convention (NRC) Party in 1990
-He was elected as the State Secretary of the National Republican Convention from 1990 to 1992.
-He was the State Secretary of the defunct United Nigeria Centre Party (UNCP), as well as that of the All Nigeria Peoples’ Party (ANPP) between the years of 1995 to 1996 and 1998 to 1999 respectively.
-Ahmed Musa Ibeto was from 1999 to 2003 appointed Senior Special Assistant on Protocol Matters to the immediate past Governor.
-He contested and won election into the Federal House of Representatives in 2003 under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
-He was the deputy to Governor Aliyu from 2007 – 2015
 
KEMI ADEOSUN

i) SENIOR MANAGER, PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS

(ii) CHAPELHILL DENHAM
COMMISSIONER FOR FINANCE, OGUN STATE
 
BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA
-Chief of Staff to former governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
-Honourable Commissioner to the Governor’s office
-Secretary of the Lands Sub-Committee of the Transitional Work Groups 1999
-Panel Member on allocation of houses on Mobolaji Johnson Housing Scheme Lekki
-Member of the State Tenders Board- 2002-2006
-Member of the State Security Council – 2002-2006
-Chairman Ad-Hoc Committee on Review of Asset distribution among LGs
-Executive governor of Lagos State between 2007 – 2015.
 
 
Engineer Suleiman Adamu (Hussein)

-Principal Consultant with Afri-Projects Consortium, Management Consultants to the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, where he was actively involved in the planning and preparation of several national infrastructural projects in the health, education, transportation, agriculture, water resources and energy sectors.
 
At implementation stage he served as Project Manager on several projects, notably under the PTF Urban/Semi-Urban, Regional and Rural Water Supply Programmes, National Farm Power Machinery Rehabilitation Programme and National Waterways Development Project (Dredging of River Niger).
Seconded to Afri-Projects Consortium (APC) under a special IEA/APC partnering agreement as Principal Consultant and Head of Planning, Directorate of Engineering Services, for the PTF Management Consulting service. Was actively involved in the planning, coordination and management of the following PTF programmes.
 
AMINA J. MOHAHMMED

-ONGOING: SPECIAL ADVISER OF THE UNITED NATION’S SECRETARY GENERAL ON POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT GOALS
ONGOING: CEO/FOUNDER, CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY SOLUTION
ONGOING: ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
-2006 – 2012: SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO NIGERIAN PRESIDENT, MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
-2002 – 2005: COORDINATOR, TASK FORCE ON GENDER & EDUCATION UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM PROJECT
-1991 – 2001: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AFRI-PROJECTS CONSORTIUM; ENGINEERING FIRM
-1981 –1991: ARCHON NIGERIA
 
ABUBAKAR MALAMI (SAN)

-NATIONAL LEGAL ADVISER, CPC
-CHAIRMAN LEGAL TEAM, CPC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION (2011)
-CHAIRMAN LEGAL TEAM, CPC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION (2011)
-MEMBER, PDP LEGAL TEAM, ELECTION PETITION (2003)
-MEMBER, KANO STATE LG ELECTION TRIBUNAL (2004)
-RESOURCE PERSON, MANIFESTO DRATING SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE INTER-PARTY MERGER COMMITTEES OF THE CPC, ACN, ANPP, APGA, DPP TOWARDS TO FORMATION OF THE APC
MEMBER, NATIONAL CONVENTION AND CONGRESS COMMITTEE (2013)
-MEMBER, APC ELECTORAL COMMITTEE FOR ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION (2013)
-MEMBER, KEBBI STATE COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF 2013
CHAIRMAN, APC KANO STATE CONGRESS APPEALS COMMITTEE (MAY 2014)
-MEMBER, APC CONSTITUTION SUB-COMMITTEE (JUNE 2014)
 
Aisha Jumai Al-Hassan

-She became the Attorney General and the commissioner for Justice, Taraba State. 1997
-She was appointed the Chief Magistrate in FCT. 1996.
-She was oncea Magistrate Grade II in Kaduna State 1988
-She got the appointment of being FCT Judicial Service Committee Secretary 2002
-Retired from the FCT Judiciary as Chief Registrar 2009.
-After she retired from service she went into private business and then Politics.
-She was the Senator representing Taraba North Senatorial District in the 7th National Assembly From April 2011 – April 2015
 
 
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/ministerial-nominees-and-previous-public-offices-held/

Lalasticlala

As the nation awaits the screening of the 21 ministerial nominees by the Senate, Vanguard presents list of former public offices held by some of them

ABDULRAHMAN BELLO DAMBAZAU

-AIDE DE CAMP TO CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF (1979)
COMMANDED MILITARY POLICE UNITS & SERVED AS SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR (1984 – 1985)
-REGISTRAR, NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY (1993 – 1999)
-CHIEF INSTRUCTOR, SUPPORT WEAPON WING OF THE INFANTRY CENTRE & SCHOOL (1999 – 2001)
-DIRECTING STAFF AT NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE (2004 – 2006)
-GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING (GOC) 2ND DIVISION, IBADAN (2007 – 2008)
-CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF (2008 – 2010)
-CHAIRMAN OF CPC SECURITY COMMITTEE (2011)
DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF INTELLIGENCE &-SECURITY OF THE APC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN (2015)
 
CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI

-Active member of the National Union of Rivers State students NURSS and National Association of Nigerian Students NANS.
-Secretary, Defunct Nigerian Republican Convention, IkwerreLG
-State Caretaker Committee Secretary, Democratic Party of Nigeria.
-Special Assistant to then Rivers State Deputy Governor 1992 – 1994
-Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly
Chairman, Conference of Speakers
-Governor, Rivers State 2007 – 2015
Chairman, Nigerian Governor’s Forum

KAYODE FAYEMI JOHN

-Director, Policy, Strategy and Research Directorate, APC Presidential Campaign Council, 2015
-Chairman, APC’s Presidential Primaries Convention Committee, 2014
-Member, APC Strategy Committee, 2013-14
Founding Chairman, Progressive Governors’ Forum, 2013.
-Policy Adviser, Ekiti State Government, 1999 – 2003
-Adviser, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Transition Team, Lagos State, 1999
-Policy Adviser, Engineer Gbenga Daniel’s Transition Team, Ogun State, 2003 Member, Steering Committee, West African Civil Society Forum (www.wacsof.org) Board Member, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York, USA (www.justiceinitiative.org)
-Member, International Advisory Board, Global Network on Security Sector Reform, UK (www.gfn-ssr.org)
-Member, International Advisory Board, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, London, UK (www.cpsu.org)
-Board Member, Baobab for Women’s Human Rights, Lagos, Nigeria (www.baobabforwomen.org) Board
-Member, Centre for Constitutional Governance, Lagos, Nigeria
-Member, Advisory Board, African Security Dialogue & Research, Accra, Ghana
-Board Member & Secretary, Media Empowerment for Africa (MEFA) – 1995-97
-Chair, New Nigeria Forum – 1994 – 1997
-Overseas Representative, Campaign for Democracy, Nigeria 1992 – 1996
-Board Member, Lewisham Regeneration Challenge Board, UK – 1991 – 1992
-Secretary, Lagos Branch, Christ’s School, Ado Ekiti Old Students Association,
 
SOLOMON DALUNG

-Dalung joined the Prisons Service as a Prison Assistant in 1982 and rose to the rank of Assistant Inspector of Prisons.
Following his training as an attorney, he was moved to the Legal Department at Prisons Headquarters Abuja in year 2004 where he served as Legal Officer II in the prisons headquarters prior to retirement in December of that same year.
Personal Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar,CON, when Lar was appointed as Adviser Emeritus to President Olusegun Obasanjo. This job lasted until 2003.
-In 2004, he took up an appointment with the Faculty of Law of the University of Jos as a lecturer. As a lecturer, he has had the opportunity of attending leadership trainings courtesy international Human Rights Organizations.
-In 2007, he was appointed the Chairman of Langtang South Local Government Area the same year. As Chairman of Langtang South, he also served as the Plateau State Deputy Chairman and later Chairman of the Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGON). His tenure as the Chairman ended in may 2008.
Member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and also a member Members Of Buhari’s Transitional Commitee
He made an attempt at representing Langtang North and South at the National Assembly but lost.
 
Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu

Bayo Shittu was an Honourable Member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the Second Republic and he was there between October 1979 and September, 1983
Bayo Shittu was the Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Home Affairs (in the Olunloyo administration) Between October and December, 1983
Bayo Shittu was the attorney General and Oyo State Commissioner for Justice (in the Ladoja government)
Bayo Shittu was a member of the National Political Reforms Conference in 2005

Sen. Sirika Hadi

-Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, represents Katsina North Senatorial  District          2011-2015    CPC/APC
-Member: Federal House of Representatives. 2003. 2007

Bodyguarding and wrestling continua!

BAW201

joseph1832:
Whoever takes Fayose serious is taking FFK serious and the person needs to get his head examined!.

lool

Party of dying Clowns!

"PDP has a long road of regret to travel" - Adeshina (2015)

PDP is the only party in the world that could not take credit for its "achievements" during its reign but the reign of another party.

modath:
Have you seen PMB partying over appts?

Where & what aee the PDP achievements?

No one asked him the question, he was asked about ministerial list, and in typical PDP fashion, he tried to discredit the names on the list & seeing Ibe Kachikwu is no lightweight, he took him for PDP instead.

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cc, lalasticlala. .. PDP wonder 2015 is ready..

hahahahaha...can you imagine?

Fayose seriously needs a brain check. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

Being corrupt is not determined by the number of buildings you own, Mr ibori. For a man to say Alameiseigha was not corrupt, means he is a million times more corrupt and sees what Alameiseigha stole as nothing compared to what he stole..

God forgive me for speaking ill of the dead!

I hate to say this. Fayose is going mad!

And the PDP was the most prepared in history. Little wonder the party ran Nigeria like a beer parlor

..The ranting of a dying breed

Lalasticlala, pls help me close or delete this thread. I thought I posted it in the Islam for muslim section. Thanks