The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has denied insinuating that he is above the law. Dogara was reacting to what he called misrepresentation...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that he is crying for Nigeria because it has continued to celebrate corrupt people. The former chairman of the House of Representatives’...
Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara has stated that the police cannot meddle in the affairs of the House. According to him, he cannot...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the party has no plan to sanction anybody over the raging budget padding allegations rocking the House of...
The planned interaction with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, by the Special Investigative Panel, SIP, investigating allegations of budget padding did not...
A member of the House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Legislative Compliance, Abiodun Olasupo, has said Nigerian lawmakers were elected to pad the nation’s...
The Presidency on Tuesday, said the budget signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari was not padded. This was stated by the Senior Special Assistant to...
The deputy national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Segun Oni, has apologised on behalf of the party leadership for its failure to nip...
There are indications that the security agencies have begun investigations into allegations of budget padding in the National Assembly.While the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
Acting national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has described Abdulmumin Jibrin as lacking manners, disrespectful and desperate. He was reacting...
Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Ghali Na’Abba, has said that padding was impossible without the involvement of the executive arm. He therefore called for proper...
House of Representative Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has reportedly said that the budget padding allegation, is an issue beyond the All Progressives Congress’ (APC), intervention....
A human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, has told the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to treat the current allegations of...
House of Representatives members under the aegis of Transparency Group say padding is criminal insertion, demanding that Yakubu Dogara must step down or be disgraced. The...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that he will not resign his position as speaker despite allegations of budget padding. A former...
A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4)...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has issued a letter warning Abdulmumin Jibrin from making any further statement against Yakubu Dogara over his alleged budget padding. Lawal...
The current controversy surrounding the padding of the 2016 budget has received the official attention of the police, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris...
The embattled former Chairman of the House of Representatives on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has alleged that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and...
Femi Gbajabiamila, has broken his silence over the budget padding brouhaha rocking the House of Representatives, even as he called for radical reform of the budget...
Abdulmumin Jibrin has been summoned to appear before an All Progressives Congress (APC), disciplinary committee over his allegations against the Speaker, House of Representatives. He is...
Ekiti state House of Assembly has branded Lagos-based lawyer, Femi Falana a hypocrite who should be ashamed of himself. The House said this on Monday while...
Abdulmumin Jibrin on Monday visited anti-graft agencies to provide insight on how the Speaker and other House of Representatives members padded the 2016 budget. The former...
Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo was not wrong to say that National Assembly is corrupt. The former Chairman of the Committee on...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and three other principal officers of the...
By Joseph Edgar… My father used to beat the hell out of me anytime I listened to Fela. Fela was that controversial and societal unacceptable gadfly...
Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Saturday sealed the office of the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin and the secretariat of...
The peace and harmony the House of Representatives seemingly enjoyed following the crisis over the election of its principal officers, was shattered recently soon after Honourable...
Sacked former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin has been left in the cold, as members of the committee he formally...
Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has shot down allegations of budget padding against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three principal officers of...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has alleged that Yakubu Dogara illegally diverted a Federal Government water project to his farm in Nasarawa state. And like a talking drum, he...
Former chairman of the House of Representatives’ Appropriation Committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin has said insisted that Speaker Yakubu Dogara is guilty of budget padding. He said he...
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has advised against budget padding and called for investigation into the allegation of such in the House of Representatives....
The Transparency Group, a collection of members of the House of Representatives, has called for the probe and prosecution of Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and three other...
The last has not been heard in the face off between the former Chairman of the House Commitee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin and the Speaker of...
The sacked chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin has been accused of being the brain behind the ill-fated Kano Film Village,...
The leadership of the House of Representatives may be going for the jugular in its current face off with the former Chairman of the House Committee...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the alleged budget padding by the National Assembly only vindicates his claim that the federal lawmakers are “armed robbers...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has said the House of Representatives should not be the one to investigate the allegation of N40billion budget padding...
The drama over alleged budget padding by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers continued at the weekend. The...
Erstwhile Chairman of Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives, Abdulmumuni Jibrin, Thursday called for the sack of Speaker Yakubu Dogara moments after the House adjourned...
In order to get more evidence to nail a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the EFCC, has summoned his former Aide-de-Camp, ADC,...
A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore may be in for more troubles in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
The imbroglio occasioned by the 2016 budget has finally come to an end, as President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday afternoon, signed the appropriation document into law. With...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the redeployment of about 184 top civil servants over their roles in the padding of the 2016 Budget proposals. According to...
After weeks of silence, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday evening, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, admitted that the 2016 budget was padded. He also vowed to deal...
