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Nigeria: Akpabio Vs Akpoti-Uduaghan - Senate Presents Defence Before IPU, Seeks Fair Hearing

[This Day] The Senate yesterday defended its decision to suspend Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan before the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the global organisation of national parliaments, maintaining that the federal lawmaker was not given the marching orders for her alleged sexual harassment case, but for gross misconduct against the upper chambers.

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