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Abia House of Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday to stop the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies in the state. It is entitled: “A Bill for a Law to Revoke the Abia State Governors and Deputy Governors Pensions Law No 4 of 2001 and for other Matters connected therewith.”…
It was sponsored by Mr Uchanna Okoro, the majority leader and member representing Arochukwu State Constituency. He said that the bill, once assented to by the governor, would be referred to as “Abia State Governors and Deputy Governor’s Law 2024.”The News Agency of Nigeria reports that, with the bill, former governors and their deputies will no longer enjoy pension benefits after their tenures have expired.
House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis has summoned Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, over alleged misappropriation of $300 million meant to tackle malaria since 2021. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, refused to grant bail to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu, over the terrorism charges against him.
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