SENATE APPROVES EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY RULE

The Senate on its resumption of plenary has approved President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to extend the state of emergency imposed on Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, for another six months. The President had on Wednesday sent a letter to the Senate explaining that although there was relative peace in the region, more time was needed to restore absolute peace in the affected states. The Senators also invited service chiefs and the Supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Viola Onwuleri, to further brief the upper chamber on the impact the state of emergency had had, on the three states.