The House of Representatives yesterday urged the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Petroleum Products Price Regulatory Agency ( PPPRA) to review the current price template for petrol with a view to bringing it down. The Green Chamber was of the opinion that Nigerians are being made to pay for unnecessary costs attached to petrol […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo received a dose of his own pill yesterday when the House of Representatives lambasted him in response to his description of lawmakers as corrupt. According to correspondents, the lawmakers described him as the “grandfather of corruption”, who is “acting as lifetime opposition leader, blackmailer” that “wants to bring down Buhari’s government”. […]
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The House of Representatives is set to approve the request for virement of N208.821 billion in the Appropriation Act 2016. This follows the submission of the report of the House Committee on Appropriation at plenary on Wednesday. While the requested Special Intervention in Recurrent Expenditure was N167,113,304,018 that of Capital was N39,208,367, 476. The request […]
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THE 2016 budget is not on the agenda of the House of Representatives as lawmakers reconvene this week in Abuja from their Christmas and New Year break, Punch learnt on Monday. The lawmakers will resume work on Tuesday (today), but contrary to expectations, the budget will not be on the table this week. Rather, other […]
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The House of Representatives has opposed the proposed reduction of the N1. 040 trillion ($5.2b) fine imposed GSM operator MTN by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC). The lawmakers said non-inclusion of the National Assembly in the consultation before “unilaterally” reducing the fine was wrong. Chairman of the House committee on communications, Hon. Saheed Fijabi (APC, […]
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