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BREAKING: Suspended SGF absent as Senate committee begins hearing


Published April 27, 2017
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The suspended Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir Lawal, was conspicuously absent at the Nigerian Senate ad-hoc committee members begin an investigative hearing into the circumstances leading to his suspension.
The Committee, however, gave him until 12 noon to appear.
Details later…

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