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...

EFCC ARRAIGNS MAN FOR ALLEGED N30M FRAUD IN LAGOS.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.



EFCC Arraigns Man For Alleged N30m Fraud in Lagos

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, February 9, 2023 arraigned one Ibukunoluwa Olaoye before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a one-count charge bordering on stealing contrary to Section 287 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

The count reads: "Ibukunoluwa Olaoye, between 25th April 2022 and 26th April 2022 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court converted to your personal use, the sum of N30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Naira), property of Odememfon Felix Ekarika and Chidi Odoemenam."


 

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