Nwoko recalled the recent kidnap of 19 persons including his aide in the Galadimawa area of the FCT. The Senate has tasked the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to revisit the $460 million spent by the federal government on closed-circuit televisions (CCTV) project in Abuja. This is as it mandated its committee on Army and Police Affairs to launch an investigation into the issue of kidnapping.. It also called for the...
Senator Abdullahi warned against legislative actions that may compound the already precarious economic situation in the country. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi (APC, Kebbi North) has said that Nigeria is facing the worst economic crisis in the history of its existence. Senator Yahaya asserted this at the joint inaugural meeting of the Senate and House Committees on National Planning held on Wednesday, in the National...
The motion sponsor said despite the benefits and reasons for on-boarding the Remita Platform, the rate of revenue leakages is high. The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate revenue leakages through the Remita platform. It also expressed displeasure over the non-compliance by revenue-generating agencies of government of standard operating procedures and other allied service level agreements signed among deposit money banks, office of the AGF, Systemspec, Nigeria Interbank...
Kyari said NNPCL had not been able to pump oil through the pipeline from Warri to Benin within the last 22 years due to pipeline vandalism. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has expressed concern over the rate of vandalism that has occurred on more than 5,000 kilometers of oil pipelines across the country. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NNPCL, Mele Kyari, who described pipeline vandalism as a national calamity, remarked...
The Service Chiefs also took turns to outline their efforts to tackle the country’s security situation. Nigeria Service Chiefs have identified inadequate funding, lack of equipment, and poor welfare as challenges to addressing the security situation in the country. This is as the Chief of Army Staff identified the efforts of security operatives in tackling the prevalence of violent extremism, banditry, militancy, and terrorism in the country. The Service Chiefs spoke at the commencement of...
The Court of Appeal expelled former Principal Officers, Mwadkwon and Nkwocha from the National Assembly. The Senate was thrown into a rowdy session as the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, announced Senator Abba Moro (PDP, Benue South) as the Minority leader and Osita Ngwu (PDP, Enugu West) as the Senate Minority Whip. Moro, who is a two-term Senator takes over from Senator Simon Davou Mwadkwon, who before his sack by the Court of Appeal,...
The House continues its suspended sectoral debate with heads of security agencies as well as those of other sectors. In keeping with its mandate to bridge the gap between citizens and the legislature, OrderPaper’s Legislative Intelligence Forecast (LIFE) Service, by Kauthar Anumba Khaleel, gives an insight into other activities that will take place in the National Assembly during the week. Reps The lawmakers will push for the Investigation into funds disbursed for the alternative school...
The Appellate Court nullified PDP members’ elections and directed that their certificates of return be withdrawn and issued to the first runners-up. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has sworn in Ajang Alfred Iliya (Labor Party), Vincent Vennape (All Progressives Congress), and Fom Dalyop of LP as members of the Green Chamber. They replace three of the four Plateau Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers who were recently sacked. Recall that an Appeal Court sitting...
The Appellate Court held that PDP acted in breach of a subsisting court order when it sponsored the lawmakers as candidates for the National Assembly election on February 25. Over the last couple of weeks, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been hit by judicial judgments, which saw some of its members lose their respective seats to opponents in the National Assembly. No fewer than six of its members in both chambers of the nation’s...
The Nigerian National Assembly is the democratically elected body that makes laws, oversights the government, and represents the interests of Nigerians and the country. It is a bicameral legislature comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House consists of 360 members representing the 360 Federal Constituencies in the country. In this explainer, we break down the membership of the House by geo-political zone. Zones, states and local governments… Nigeria is broadly divided...
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