SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH.

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 SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH. The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of Hon. Yaya Tongo, a member of the House of Representatives, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess amid expectations that lawmakers would accelerate action on the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across the federation, a measure widely seen as a major step in the ongoing effort to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. However, proceedings were cut short after Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the death of Tongo, who represented the Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State in the House of Representatives. Hon. Tongo passed away at Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja on June 12, 2026, following a brief illness. His death triggered a...

P&ID SCAM: EFCC SEEKS ARREST WARRANT AGAINST MARQOTT DIRECTORS.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.


P&ID Scam: EFCC Seeks Arrest Warrant Against Marqott Directors

The EFCC on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, urged Justice D. U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, to issue a warrant of arrest against Giovanni Beccarelli, Valentina Fontoli and Dimitri Duca, directors and shareholders of Marqott Nigeria Limited, who are currently at large.

 Prosecution counsel, Bala Sanga, informed the court that the application which was filed in February 4, 2022 is pursuant to “Section 3, 35, 36 and 37 of ACJA 2015.”

Justice Okorowo however reserved ruling on the application till March 15.

Marqott Nigeria Limited, an accomplice in the $9.6billion Gas Supply and Processing Agreement, between the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and Process and Industrial Development, P&ID, Limited is facing prosecution by the EFCC on money laundering charges. 

 

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