Nigeria: Govt Shutdown - Reps Lift Embargo Against Budget

10 February 2014

PLANS by the House of Representatives to shut down the Federal Government through stalling of its 2014 budget are to be temporarily lifted tomorrow following the removal of Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu as the Rivers State commissioner of police.

The removal of Mbu was one of the conditions the opposition APC insistedon before asking its members to stall the budget.

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