Hightlight Archives - Page 14 of 202 - Parliament Reports

Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dennis Otuaro, has a 72-hour deadline to appear before House Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over ₦26bn audit queries or face sanction  The House of Representatives has given the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro, a 72-hour deadline to appear before its Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over audit queries totalling more than ₦26 billion. He is expected to face the committee on Tuesday, December 9,...

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has accused electricity DisCos for failing to meet power supply demands, saying firms failed to invest after privatisation The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has accused electricity distribution companies (DisCos) of undermining the country’s power supply through years of poor investment, inadequate network expansion, and failure to...

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the status and whereabouts of the funds recovered from the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), estimated at over N30 billion, from 2024 to 2025 The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to investigate the status and whereabouts of the funds recovered from the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), estimated at over N30 billion, from 2024 to 2025. Parliament Reports recalls that President Bola Tinubu suspended...

Former deputy speaker, Idris Wase, has raised an alarm boko haram terrorists are being recruited into the military and police A former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ahmed Idris Wase, has revealed that suspected boko haram members and other criminals were once discovered on official recruitment lists for the Nigerian Army and Police. Wase, who represents Wase federal constituency of Plateau state and leads the North-central caucus of the 10th House, made...

Rep. Doguwa commented on the country’s security situation saying, “we can even declare legislative emergency. Close the House, shut it up” A member of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to declare a “legislative emergency” in response to the country’s worsening security situation, saying Nigeria is “running in blood and tears.” Doguwa, a former Majority Leader of the House, made the call during the special plenary session convened to...