Ministerial list splits Senate

• Buhari lobbies as PDP senators doubt anti-graft war
• Screening begins on Tuesday

A CRACK seems to have appeared among Senators over confirmation of ministerial nominees following yesterday’s unveiling of the list transmitted to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari last week.

Some senators are not comfortable with particular candidates while others fault the number.
Meanwhile, the Presidency has begun moves to reach out to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)‎ senators with a view to persuading them to accept the 21 ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Senate last week even as the upper chamber has fixed next Tuesday for their screening.

Nigerian Senators and House Reps Members Want Life Pension!!!

It has been reported that the National Assembly approved on Thursday, February 19, 2015 life pension for the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This should not be allowed because of many reasons.

First, the federal legislators are the highest paid in the world despite the fact that they are part-time legislators who go on recess for over four months in the year and do not sit on Mondays and Fridays!

If the President of the Senate, David Mark, is put on pension, he will be on a second pension after retiring from the army as a senior officer! Will he now retire twice from the same government?

The same can be said of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Legislation is not a full life work that should warrant life pension like civil servants who serve for at least 15 years. People of goodwill should look into this before we are ripped off. The same is the issue of life pension and fantastic entitlements by the governors.