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 True to its threat, the Senate, yesterday overturned President Olusegun
Obasanjo�s veto of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) Act, just as a Federal High
Court, Abuja threatened to order the arrest of principal officers of the National Assembly should they override
the President�s veto. And as the Senate prepares to wind up, Works and Housing Minister, Chief Garba Ali has ordered
a fresh valuation of official cars of lawmakers. (Vanguard)
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 In his first formal reaction to the verdict of the
Federal High Court, which quashed his suspension from the Senate, Senator Arthur Nzeribe, has said that he has
been vindicated by the judgment reinstating him back to the Senate. Nzeribe...said his re-instatement to the Senate
by the Court was not a victory against his colleagues in the upper chamber but a vindication of his insistence
that the suspension order was illegal. (This
Day
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