SENATE yesterday told the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to stop the 45 per cent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This followed a deadlock in discussions between the Senate leadership on the one hand and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and his counterpart in the Labour and Employment ministry, […]
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A coalition comprising seven political groups in Kogi State, under the aegis of Kogi West Peoples Forum (KWPF) yesterday announced its intention to commence the recall of Senator Dino Melaye, representing the Zone from the National Assembly over allegations of gross misconduct. The coalition called on the people of the Senatorial district to as a […]
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SENATE on Thursday asked its joint committee on Power and Privatisation to investigate the sale of 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE). This followed a motion by Senator Mohammed Hassan (Yobbe South) and five others on alleged “Unwholesome practices by Manitoba Hydro International Nigeria Limited under the direction […]
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The Senate yesterday passed the 2016 Appropriation Bill for second reading after concluding debate on the general principles of the bill, which started on Wednesday last week. Thereafter, the Senate also committed the document to its Committee on Appropriations, to coordinate the budget defence by the various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government. Consequently, […]
Read More NIGERIA Senate Committee on Gas Resources on Wednesday directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries to submit to it their detailed audited accounts for the past three years. Apart from the NNPC, other agencies affected are the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, Nigerian Petroleum Investment and Management Service and the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas. […]
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THE 2016 budget for the State House may have been reduced by N100m from the N11,909,567,095 submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari three weeks ago to N11,809,567,097 uploaded on the website of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning Thursday on. An analysis of the fiscal document, which was submitted by the President to a joint […]
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NIGERIA Senate Joint Committee investigated the alleged disappearance of the 2016 budget document from the upper chamber on Wednesday quizzed five members of staff of the National Assembly. According to Punchng, The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, and another member of the committee, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, […]
Read More THE Senate, yesterday, commenced a process aimed at stopping the President and the Federal Executive Council, FEC, from awarding contracts of any kind in the country. The legislature said there was no basis for the FEC to award contracts, insisting that the status quo must be changed. To this end, it passed a resolution, urging […]
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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said that the 2016 budget proposal was not missing. He said no statement made by any Senator during Wednesday’s plenary could be interpreted as an admission that the 2016 budget is missing. Abdullahi made the clarification in a statement made available […]
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