The Senate on Tuesday indicated that it will develop a strategy of engagement with revenue generating agencies on how to make them achieve their targets and generate more revenues in 2022 to narrow the margins of borrowing by Government This was coming against the backdrop of incessant resort to borrowing to finance National Budget that has almost become a reoccurring decimal in recent times under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration,The president of the Senate Ahmed Lawan spoke at the floor of the Senate in his address at resumption of the upper legislative chamber after their Yuletide/ New year breakLawan said…
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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has promised Nigerians that the chamber would expedite action on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill having concluded all consultations on the President’s response. Lawan gave the indication on Tuesday in an address delivered at the commencement of plenary to welcome Senators back from the Christmas and New Year break. He recalled that the Senate postponed discussions on the consideration of the response of President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill in December last year. He said this became imperative to enable the chamber consult with its counterparts in the House of…
The Senate has urged the Federal Government to immortalise Chief Ernest Shonekan, Former Head of Interim National Government of Nigeria, who died on Jan.11 at the age of 85. Senate resolution was followed the adoption of a motion on the demise of the Nigerian Former leader. The senate leader Abdullahi Yahaya (APC- Kebbi) who sponsored the motion while making his presentation noted with grief the demise of Shonekan on Jan .11 at the age of 85. He said, Shonekan,an indigene of Ogun State, was a British trained lawyer,consumate administrator, renowned industrialist, a seasoned businessman and politician. He said Shonekan served…
The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), in its effort to deepen the fulfilment of its mandate, has recruited new staff members into different cadres of its operations.The general manager, Corporate affairs Mrs Ijeoma Oji-Okoronkwo in a statement said it is to further the reforms that have been initiated by the Fund under the Chairman of its reconstituted Management Board, Mr Austin Enajemo-lsire.It would be recalled that the Fund had, in the third quarter of 2021, embarked on a massive redeployment of staff, which placed them where their productivity would be enhanced.The statement said, “Thereafter, the NSITF in December 2021…
By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse The Jigawa State Hisbah commission has intervened, reconciled and settled a total of 4, 231 families and other communal disputes in 2021. This was contained in a press statement made available to newsmen in Dutse the state capital by the state Hisbah Commandant Malam Ibrahim Dahiru The commandant while reviewing the activities of the commission in 2021 stated that, during the period under review the commission reconciled 3,579 domestic cases that involved couples and 221 that involved parents and their children. The Commandant also disclosed that, the commission managed and settled 71 cases that involved Farmers…
The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) is dismayed at the curious and inexplicable apparent discomfort of the Abuja Based educational institution known as Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja with efforts of the mother of their student the late 14 year old Keren-Happuch Aondoodo Akpagher, Mrs Vivien Vihimga Akpagher and the Coalition of Gender Based Violence Responders (CGBVR) led by Lemmy Ughegbe to seek that the killer-rapist is fished out and brought to justice. If the school has nothing to hide, it should have joined forces with Mrs Akpagher and the – Ughegbe led coalition. HURIWA appeals to the Inspector General of…
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has accused the North of plotting to retain power at all cost against the power rotation formula that has been in place since 1999. In a statement by its National President Dr. Bitrus Pogu, he said it is evidently clear that there is a grand ploy to truncate power shift to the South by 2023. “The attention of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has been drawn to the communique issued at the end of a meeting convened by the Northern Elders’ Forum under the auspices of Northern Leaders of Thought (NLT) over opposition to power rotation…
The unexpected happened in Lokoja on Monday when Kidnappers abducted a bricklayer, Folorunsho Sunday at his residence and later demanded N30m ransomThe question that easily came to mind was where will an ordinary bricklayer’s family raise the N30m.Folorunsho, who hails from Jege in Yagba East local government area of the state, resides behind Faith Academy along Zango in the state capital.The usual thinking is that kidnappers will go for wealthy individuals that have the wherewithal to pay the ransom money but in this scenario they swooped on an ordinary bricklayer few minutes after 12 midnight on Monday without prior knowledge…
From Umar Egbunu Muhammed, Lafia Ahead of 2023 general elections, the member representing Nasarawa/Toto Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Mr. Ari Abdulmumuni has called on the electorate across the 13 local government areas of the state to be mindful of those they elect to represent them at various levels. Abdulmumuni, who made the call in an exclusive interview on Monday with our correspondent in his office, said they should take into cognisance the credibility of a particular candidate before electing him into office. The lawmaker also extolled the leadership qualities of president Muhamadu Buhari for his genuine love…
*** Congratulates new Major Generals from the state Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state on Monday, played host to Halima Musa, the first female Kogi state indigene to attain the Air Commodore rank in the Nigerian Airforce.A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Onogwu Muhammed said Air Commodore Musa, who is the second woman to be promoted to that rank in Nigeria’s history, visited the Governor in the early hours of Monday.The statement quoted Governor Bello while receiving the top Airforce officer to have expressed joy and congratulated her on her recent appointment, noting that she has…