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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the new service chiefs following the consideration of the report of the Committee on Defence which recommended their confirmation.
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, had on Wednesday, penultimate week, referred the request of the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.), for the confirmation of the new service chiefs, to the Committee on Defence.
Lawan, gave the committee, led by Senator Aliyu Wamakko, two weeks to carry out their assignments and report to the Senate in plenary.
The Senate confirmed their appointments both at the committee of the whole and at plenary on Tuesday following the Wamakko report’s consideration.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has insisted that some people are benefiting from banditry in Nigeria. Lawan spoke after the confirmation of the
Obasanjo, Saraki meet behind closed-doors
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The meeting was held at the Olusegun Obasanjo’s Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Saraki arrived the venue of the meeting at about 12:12pm and immediately went straight into a closed-door session with Obasanjo at his Pent House residence located within the library.
Saraki who is the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Reconciliation Committee has been meeting with some aggrieved members of the party lately.
Recall that the former president had in 2015 torn his PDP membership card publicly.
Obasanjo had torn the membership card during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election which President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, won.
The Zamfara State Police Command has assured that the ground and aerial team deployed by the Inspector-General of police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu will continue to sustain the ongoing ground and aerial surveillance patrol in the state.
The commissioner of police, Mr. Abutu Yaro congratulated Zamfara State government and parents of the just-released schoolgirls, assuring that a full-scale investigation is presently in progress, and that anybody found in connection with the abduction would not go unpunished.
In a press statement signed by the state police command’s spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu, the commissioner noted that the number of abducted students were 279 and not 317 as earlier announced.
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The Senate committees responsible for the oversight of the Nigerian military forces will start the screening of the newly appointed service chiefs on Tuesday (today).
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Thompson Sekibo, who confirmed the development in a chat with our correspondent on Monday evening, however, said the service chiefs would be screened behind closed doors.
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, had on Wednesday, referred the request of the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.), for the confirmation of the new service chiefs, to the joint committees on Army, Navy and Air force for necessary screening.