Barely one week after nominations by the President, Cardoso, a former Finance Commissioner during the Bola Tinubu-led administration in Lagos State takes over as ‘Governor’ of Nigeria’s apex bank. But what happens to the constitutional provision on confirmation by the National Assembly? Dr. Olayemi Michael Cardoso has formally assumed duty as the Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) following his recent nomination by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As contained in a...
In this explainer, we provide insight into the history, mode of operation, function and leadership of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures. The legislature is the lawmaking arm of government at the local, state or federal level in a federation. It is a given, however, that in a representative democracy like Nigeria’s, while the legislature and the judiciary are responsible for lawmaking and interpretation of laws, the Executive is responsible for the implementation...
The Deputy Speaker revealed that a process of streamlining revenue-collecting agencies, which aims to improve coordination, reduce duplicity in tax administration, and ultimately make the system more efficient and transparent is ongoing. The House of Representatives has pledged its commitment to ensuring that certain sections of the country’s laws are altered to engender flexibility in tax and fiscal policy reforms in the ongoing constitutional amendment. This development is coming on the heels of plans to...
Rep. Ihonbvere said he is ready to go the entire length of the law with the Nigerian customs. The chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the disposal of public property, Rep. Julius Ihonbvere, has threatened to invoke relevant legislative powers to compel the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before the committee and give details of government property sold by the Service by the Organizations between 2010...
Concerned Benue Stakeholder, Laz Apir reaches out to Governor Hyancith Alia in Open Letter. He highlights fifteen (15) points and posers for the governor’s attention, including salary arrears, Local Government Councils, Annual Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) and key performance indicators (KPIs), amongst others. I have no desire to bore you with needless congratulatory pleasantries on your election as the Governor of Benue State and your first one hundred (100) days...
Danzaria said the purpose of the workshop is to encourage discourse on best possible practices for building parliamentary capacity in security sector governance. The Clerk of the House of Representatives, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, has called on clerks of security-related standing committees in the National Assembly, to build parliamentary capacity toward resolving conflicts in the country. This, according to him, must be done with an emphasis on promoting collaboration among the clerks of all security-centered committees...
Abbas the proposed directorate will enable legislators to recruit professional and skilled aides that would assist them in succeeding in their legislative duties. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has called for the creation of a Directorate for Legislative Aides in the National Assembly to serve as a pool for the recruitment of Legislative Aides by Lawmakers. The Speaker made the call on Wednesday, when the Executive Chairman of the National...
The Growth Initiatives for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) notes that the huge public debt profile has been encouraged by a weak revenue mobilisation, poor remittance culture, and corruption in public expenditure. A group of civil society organisations (CSOs) has decried Nigeria’s public debt profile of N87 trillion, describing it as unsustainable and a clarion call to reform the public finance management system. Led by OrderPaper Advocacy Initiative, the group, operating under the...
Noting that those elections provide ‘the people’ an opportunity to exercise their power, Sani added that when democratic leaders make it impossible for people to vote their choices or violate the rules of engagement, the military finds an excuse to intervene under the guise that democracy is suffocated. Civil Rights Leader, Senator Shehu Sani, has identified the failure of civilian governance to address the issue of poverty and insecurity as the chief...
Shittu, who is the country’s youngest female lawmaker, noted that her proposal of media regulations became necessary since the abuse of drugs and other substances has driven a considerable rise in the number of youths imprisoned in recent years. A twenty-six-year-old lawmaker, Rukayat Motunrayo Shittu, has voiced her concern about the increased use and glamourised promotion of drugs and other substances by celebrities in the country. Hon. Shittu made this known on...
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