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Confusion continues to rip through the house over dissolution of NNPCL probe committee as a $1.7 million allegation raises fresh furore The controversy surrounding the dissolution of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating endemic corruption in Nigeria’s oil sector is far from over as lawmakers including the speaker, Tanjudeen Abbas, and deputy speaker, Benjamin Kalu, are allegedly at log ahead over a $1.7 million bribe allegation. This is also as Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere (PDP,...

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...