A House of Representatives ad-hoc committee, investigating alleged payments by government agencies to firms and individuals from 2013 till date, has summoned the Controller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Hameed Ali, a retired army general.
Following series of allegations against the police and other security agencies of committing extrajudicial killings in Bayelsa State, the House of Representatives has invited the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, to appear before it and state the force’s side of the story.
Abdulmumin Jibrin, the suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, has filed a fresh suit against the leadership of the House,asking for N1 billion in damages.
The Senate has passed a motion to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to address a joint session of the National Assembly on efforts being made to take the country out of recession.
The House of Representatives has handed a 180-day suspension to Abdulmumin Jibrin, the former chairman of the House committee on Appropriation, who is at the centre of the budget padding scandal that has rocked the house in recent months.
