{"id":20977,"date":"2020-02-06T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:08:14","slug":"senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary","title":{"rendered":"Senate: Lawan exits, Omo-Agege presides over plenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday, took charge of plenary for the first time in seven months.<\/p>\n<p>He rose to occupy the seat at exactly 11.30am after the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan sought to leave the Chambers to attend to other issues outside.<\/p>\n<p>DSP\u2019s announcement by Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, however, thrilled the Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Senator James Manager said :\u201dI have an observation. It is good to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Abba Moro representing Benue South Senatorial district was the first to move a motion that was supervised by the DSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday, took charge of plenary for the first time in seven months. He rose to occupy the seat at exactly 11.30am after the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan sought to leave the Chambers to attend to other issues outside. DSP\u2019s announcement by Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[925,648],"class_list":["post-20977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-benue-state","tag-lawan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate: Lawan exits, Omo-Agege presides over plenary - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday, took charge of plenary for the first time in seven months.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate: Lawan exits, Omo-Agege presides over plenary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday, took charge of plenary for the first time in seven months.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-06T15:08:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Senate-President-Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"697\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Senate: Lawan exits, Omo-Agege presides over plenary\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-06T15:08:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\"},\"wordCount\":104,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/06\/Senate-President-Ahmed-Lawan.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Benue State\",\"Lawan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-lawan-exits-omo-agege-presides-over-plenary\",\"name\":\"Senate: Lawan exits, Omo-Agege presides over plenary - 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