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Senate empowers AMCON to seize debtors’ assets, passes Corporation amendment bill

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2021 0

Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Senate, on Wednesday widened the scope of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to recovery bad bank debts by passing the AMCON Act, No2, 2019 (Amendment) B, 2021. The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Banking,

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2019: In one fell swoop, court kills polls sequence bill

Ihesiulo Grace 26 April 2018 0

* Says NASS lacks power to alter INEC’s timetable * Affirms INEC’s powers to organize, supervise, fix election dates * Nullifies Section 25 of Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday nullified section 25 of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 that seeks to alter the sequence of 2019 […]

Politics

Election Sequence: CNPP knocks Buhari for withholding assent, urges NASS to veto it

Ihesiulo Grace 16 March 2018 0

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was ill-advised by the enemies of democracy to withhold assent to the recently passed Electoral Act amendment by the National Assembly, urging the lawmakers to invoke their veto power and sign the amendment into law in the interest of the country. While […]

Politics

Senate passes amended Electoral Act, okays electronic voting, pegs nomination fee

Ihesiulo Grace 17 December 2017 0

The Senate has passed the Electoral Act No. 6, 2010 Amendment Bill 2017, making it mandatory for use of card reader and banning of manual accreditation, when it becomes a law. Meanwhile according to the amendment, House of Representatives aspirants are now to pay N1,000,000 and those for State Assembly will pay N500,000. The law […]

Features

Stakeholders seek constitutional amendment to avert Jonathan’s scenerio after 2015 presidential election

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2017 0

 Will the National Assembly amend the Constitution to forestall any candidate spending more than eight years as President or wait upon the Supreme Court to make pronouncement? Writes Peter Fowoyo. But for the former President, Goodluck Jonathan’s loss at the March 2015 general elections, the Supreme Court would have had to make pronouncement on whether […]