A ray of light for judicial workers as President Tinubu signs judicial office holders salaries and allowances bill into law President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the judicial office holders salaries and allowances bill into law. The special adviser to the president on senate matters, Sen. Basheer Lado, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. OrderPaper recalls that President Tinubu sent the judicial office holders salaries and allowances executive bill to the senate...
Kaduna State, in north-west Nigeria, has a total of nineteen members in the National Assembly, comprising three senators and sixteen representatives in the House Kaduna State was created on 27 May 1967 as North Central State and renamed on 17 March 1976. The current governor, Uba Sani, is an ex-senator who represented the Kaduna Central senatorial district from 2019 to 2023. Additionally, he was an inductee, chosen through a rigorous selection process by an MVP...
Rep. Chike Okafor in this exclusive interview with OrderPaper, explains legislative efforts to address the food crisis in Nigeria In the 2023 Global Hunger Index, Nigeria ranked 109th out of 125 countries. With a score of 28.3, Nigeria has a level of hunger that is declared ‘serious’. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the national average cost of a healthy diet was N1,241 in June 2024. This is 19.2% higher than the amount...
The senate has described the allegations that it determines its own salaries as “uncharitable and satanic.” In a fervent rebuttal, the Nigerian Senate has dismissed allegations suggesting that it determines its own salaries and receives special fiscal packages from the presidency. These claims, which were amplified following a visit by a group of House of Representatives members to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, have sparked significant controversy. The senate has clarified that it only receives salaries...
Attempting to bridge Nigeria’s infrastructure gap, here is how President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development (RHID) programme is to be funded in the ₦6.2 trillion budget increase Nigeria’s infrastructure challenges have long hindered its economic growth. President Bola Tinubu‘s solution is encapsulated in the ‘Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund (RHIDF)’ moniker. It arguably evolved from the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) established by President Muhammadu Buhari. So is it a case of an old wine...
The House of Representatives has announced new committee members to investigate economic sabotage within the petroleum sector The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has appointed Rep. Julius Ihonvbere (APC Edo), the majority leader of the House, and six other members to the joint Senate/House committee tasked with investigating alleged economic sabotage within Nigeria’s petroleum industry. The appointment was announced in a statement released on Friday by the House’s Spokesperson, Rep. Akin...
Plateau State, in north-central Nigeria, has a total of eleven members in the national assembly, comprising three senators and eight representatives in the house Plateau State, located in the middle belt region of Nigeria, is the twelfth largest state by size, with an estimated population of about 4.5 million. Approximately 25% of the population resides in urban areas, while the remaining 75% live in rural areas. Created in 1976 from the northern part of the...
‘We are not criminals and we are not thieves’ Mele Kyari defends self and NNPC at senate investigative hearing The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has expressed his frustration over attacks on him and NNPCL personnel regarding the alleged importation of substandard petroleum products into Nigeria. Kyari made these remarks on Wednesday during his appearance before a senate ad-hoc committee led by Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele,...
With lawmakers splitting into various groups and factions over NNPCL and NMDPRA investigation, the House decision to disband the ad-hoc committee may not be unconnected to the controversies surrounding the probe The House of Representatives has announced the dissolution of the current ad-hoc joint downstream and midstream committee. A groups of members of House of Representatives under the aegis of ‘1 Agenda’ had published a support for the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the...
The House of Representatives has a sharp division driven down its ranks over calls for the removal of NNPCL CEO All is not well in the House of Representatives as two groups have emerged over calls for the removal of the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed. A group...
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