VANGUARD CALL IGP TO ORDER, SARAKI, DOGARA TELL BUHARI, SAY NASS TO PASS BUDGET NEXT WEEK PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday said he was embarrassed by the invasion of the Senate by suspected hoodlums, who made away with the mace, which is the symbol of authority of the upper chambers, and that proper investigation would be carried out to fish out those behind the invasion. This came as the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of s, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, told President Buhari to call the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to order and compel him to obey the laws of the land. They also described the arraignment of the Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, on wheelchair by the police as barbaric and uncivilized, saying it did not give a good image to the nation’s democracy. Meanwhile, the two presiding officers of the National Assembly said the 2018 budget report would likely be laid in the two chambers this week f...

  PAPER REVIEW PUNCH 20 SENATE SUB-COMMITTEES DELAYING 2018 BUDGET – SARAKI The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, at the plenary on Thursday, insisted on today’s (Friday) deadline issued to standing committees to represent their reports on the 2018 budgets proposed by the Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies. He said the deadline would not be extended, noting that the Senate would not be held to ransom by the 20 sub-committees that had yet to present their reports to the Committee on Appropriations. “My meeting with the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations as of Wednesday showed that a number of committees have not