Rep. Dekeri argued part of the money saved from fuel subsidy removal could be used to cover the WAEC and other examinations of students as a form of palliative. The House of Representatives stepped down a motion calling on the federal government to assist students with the cost of secondary school examinations in 2023/2024 to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. The motion on the “Need to Compel JAMB, WAEC, and NECO Examination Bodies...
The motion sponsor said the intervention funds into the power sector, banks have taken over six of the eleven DisCos in Nigeria due to poor financial performance and management. The House of Representatives is set to investigate the financial interventions for the power sector since privatisation in 2013. This is even as it lamented that the sector still suffers revenue shortfalls which it attributes to high electricity tariffs despite the numerous intervention funds provided by...
Rep. Kama, while decrying the fraudulent process of the P&ID deal, noted the need for prioritization and strengthening of the nation’s procurement law. The House of Representatives has resolved to launch an investigation into the Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) contract. It directed its Committee on Justice and Financial Crimes to investigate the service providers involved in the 20-year gas supply purchasing agreement (GSPA) contract. According to the lawmakers, investigating the service providers...
The motion sponsor said correctional centers across the country house more inmates than they are built to accommodate. To address the overcrowded state of correctional centers across the country, the House of Representatives has called for the assessment and rehabilitation of offenders. The House also directed the Federal Ministry of the Interior to rehabilitate and decongest Nigeria’s correctional centers. These resolutions are contained in a motion on the “Decongestion of Correctional Service Centres in Nigeria,”...
The Reps want the sums collected as penalties released to host communities of the Niger Delta to cushion the effects of environmental degradation caused by gas flare. The House of Representatives has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to release the sum of N27.6bn collected as gas flare to host communities. The lawmakers made the demand during plenary on Thursday. The House said the demand was based on a directive by former president, Muhammadu...
The lawmakers say lax implementation of existing laws has encouraged the use of LGBTXA content in educational materials used in nursery and primary schools. The House of Representatives has asked the federal government to ban educational materials containing words that promote Lesbianism, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Asexual (LGBTQA) orientations in schools throughout Nigeria. The lawmakers expressed concern about the influx of foreign educational materials which are “alien and inimical to our cherished norms and...
The Reps has raised hope for youth corps members who suffered violence while on elections duties as INEC ad-hoc staff. But will the executive implement the resolution? In the 2019 general election, Smith, a youth corps member, served as an INEC ad-hoc staff in Ogun state and was attacked by an angry mob at his station. As he recounted, not much support was provided to him by the electoral body or any government parastatal....
The motion sponsor posited that the country’s healthcare crisis cannot be resolved without Universal healthcare coverage. The House of Representatives has asked President Bola Tinubu to allocate part of the Fuel subsidy removal savings to the provision of healthcare for vulnerable people. This is even as it advocated for increased access to quality and affordable healthcare in Nigeria. These were contained in a motion “Calling on the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to cover Vulnerable...
Rep. Zakari worried that the lack of accountability for COVID-19 intervention funds could affect Nigeria’s economic rating. The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged misappropriation of Covid-19 intervention funds released between 2020 to 2022. The resolution is contained in a motion seeking “Investigation of Alleged Mismanagement of COVID-19 Intervention Funds from 2020 to 2022.” Sponsor of the motion, Rep. Nyampa Dauda Zakari (PDP, Adamawa), in his lead debate, recalled that COVID-19 broke...
The motion described the non-remittance of 3% of operating expenditures of companies as a statutory contribution to host community funds as a violation of the PIA. The House of Representatives has asked that oil and gas companies, who have failed to remit 3 percent of their annual operating expenditure to host communities in the Niger Delta as provided for in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), 2021, be penalized. It also directed the regulatory authorities –...
