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�Probe missing N4.4 bn NASS funds� � SERAP tells Lawan, Gbajabiamila

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Aminu Imam

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and the House of Reps. Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila to �use their good offices to urgently probe and refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies allegations that N4.4 billion of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen, as documented in three audited reports by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation�. In the open letter, dated January 30, 2021 and signed by SERAP�s deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: �By exercising…

NASS: Representatives of oil communities throw blows over PIB

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Aminu Imam

The on-going public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) hit a snag yesterday, as members of the host communities exchanged blows with opposing Rep members during the hearing over who should represent oil producing areas. The host community is an integral part of the PIB; however, issue of representation caused the pandemonium. The leaders of the oil-rich areas, under the aegis of the ‘Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas’, had on Tuesday openly rejected the 2.5 percent proposed for them in the PIB 2020, being considered by the joint…

NASS orders health ministry to stop spending N10bn on COVID-19 vaccine production

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Aminu Imam

The National Assembly Joint Committee on Health has asked the Ministry of Health to suspend further action on the plans to utilise the N10 billion released to them by the Ministry of Finance, to fund the production of COVID-19 vaccines. The committee took the decision yesterday, following its dis-satisfaction with the explanation of the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire on how the N10 billion will be utilised. Chairman Senate Committee on Health, Ibrahim Oloriegbe said the committee is dis-satisfied with the explanation of the Minister and has directed that the…

National Assembly panel proposes optional electronic voting

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Aminu Imam

The Joint National Assembly Committee on Electoral Matters, has proposed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), be given the option of using electronic or any other voting method it may deem fit for future elections. This, is one of several proposals forwarded by the lawmakers to a technical committee on the amendment of the 2010 Electoral Act (As Amended). The technical committee is made up of members of legislators, INEC officials, the Minister of Justice and representatives of civil society groups. The lawmakers are seeking an amendment to Section…

Insecurity: �Buhari-led FG must act now�, says Senate President

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Aminu Imam

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government must act now on the issues of worsening insecurity in the country. Lawan stated this in his concluding remark on a Motion considered during plenary yesterday into the recent kidnapping of students at the Government Science School, Kankara, in Katsina State. He said the National Assembly would continue to engage the Executive arm of government until appropriate action is taken to address the growing insecurity in parts of the country. Earlier, coming under Order 42 and…

2023: ‘Vote us out if you�re tired of our faces’ � Lawan tells Nigerians

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 Aminu Imam

Ahead of 2023 General Election, Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan has asked Nigerians not to vote for them if they have failed the people and they are tired of seeing their faces. Lawan, has warned that there could be anarchy if the Senate is scrapped as being clamoured by some Nigerians because of the perceived jumbo pay being earned by the Senators. Rather, he challenged those who are not comfortable with the senators in the current 9th Senate to vote them out in 2023 if they don�t like their faces. Lawan also told…

NASS supports law on effective policing system – Gbajabiamila

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has reiterated commitment of the House to enact a law that would ensure effective policing system in the country. Gbajabiamila said this at the legislative agenda public policy dialogue series with the theme �policing and human rights in Nigeria,� on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that police reform had been the burden of the 9th legislative agenda, adding that it was meant to take off early in the year but derailed by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Gbajabiamila said that without…

Bad roads: �Don�t set N/Assembly on collision course with Nigerians� – Senate warns Fashola

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 Aminu Imam

Says ‘figures do not lie’ The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate, has taken a swipe at the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, on his position on dilapidated Federal Government roads, saying that the Minister should not set the National Assembly on a collision course with the people who elected them. According to the Senate, it took an exception to the statement credited to the Minister of Works that the National Assembly should be held responsible for the dilapidated state of Federal roads in Benue…

Restructuring: �Zone us to south-west� – Okun people of Kogi writes N�Assembly

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

The Okun ethnic people in Kogi State have written to National Assembly to be relocated from the North-Central geopolitical zone to the South-West. They also demanded a separate state which would be made up of the Okun people and the core Yoruba speaking part of Kwara State. This demand was contained in a memorandum sent to the Senate Committee on the 1999 Constitutional Review, under the umbrella of Okun Development Association (ODA). The memorandum which was signed by Ambassador Babatunde Fadumiyo, on behalf of the ODA President, expressed support for…

N�Assembly postpones resumption of plenary for two weeks

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 Ishaku Yohanna

Nigeria�s National Assembly has postponed its resumption to September 29 after embarking on an eight-week recess that is to elapse on September 15. Ojo Olatunde Amos, the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, announced this on Saturday. He said, �This is to inform all distinguished senators and honourable members of the National Assembly that the resumption of plenary sessions, earlier scheduled for Tuesday, 15th September 2020, is hereby rescheduled for Tuesday 29th September 2020. �We regret any inconveniences caused by this change of date.� The recess by the lawmakers had…