Karimi said the decision to purchase the luxury vehicles was based on the condition of Nigerian roads and durability. Despite the economic difficulties in Nigeria and the criticism from the public, the lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Karimi Sunday, has defended the ongoing procurement of luxury cars by the management of the National Assembly for lawmakers. Briefing journalists at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Karimi said that the leadership of both chambers of...
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The acronym MTEF may sound technical, and many citizens tend to ignore it. But it should not be so because the document lies at the heart of the annual budget, which determines how better or worse our lives get as Nigerians You must have heard and read about MTEF in the last few days. That is if you keep up with the news aside from gossip, entertainment, and sports, etc. This week, at OrderPaper Nigeria,...
Senators expressed outrage over the humongous amounts spent on various turn around maintenance on the refineries with loss, inefficiency and corruption to show as results. The Senate has mandated its committee on Downstream Petroleum in collaboration with relevant ad-hoc committees to thoroughly investigate all contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of all the state-owned refineries between 2010 and 2023. It also directed the committee to ascertain progress on ongoing works in all refineries to forestall...
The House released a six-point legislative agenda to drive progress, inclusivity, and human capital development. The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Legislative Agenda has presented the report on its Legislative Agenda to the House for consideration and adoption. Presenting the report at the resumption of plenary on Tuesday, the chairman of the Committee, Rep. Julius Ihonvbere said, “That the House do receive the Report of the Ad-hoc Committee on Legislative Agenda of the House...
Prof. Jega said taking the President of the power to appoint INEC chairman will free the commission from partisanship. Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has proposed that the power to appoint the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) be taken from the President. This is as he noted the need for further amendments to remove ambiguities, clarify and strengthen some of its sections. Jega, who...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio on Sunday, arrived in Luanda, the capital of Angola for the 147th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly as Leader of Nigeria’s delegation. Senator Akpabio traveled in the company of four Senators and five members of the House of Representatives. They were received at the Luanda International Airport by the Nigerian Ambassador to Angola, H.E. Professor Monique Oshame Ekpong, and top officials of the Angolan government led by Joao Diogo...
The Senate said the ambiguity contained in Section 64 of the Electoral Act should be removed to enable electronic transmission of election results. The Senate has proposed an amendment to the Electoral Act to make mandatory, the electronic transmission of results and uploading of polling unit-level results and result sheets used at different levels of result collation from the next general elections in 2027. It also proposed diaspora voting as well as unbundling of the...
The Appeal Court ordered INEC to conduct another senatorial election in Plateau North within 90 days. The Court of Appeal has voided the election of the Senate Minority Leader, Simon Mwadkwon (PDP, Plateau North) on grounds that the party did not validly nominate him for the election. This unanimous judgment was issued on Sunday in Abuja, by a three-member panel led by Justice Elphreda Dawodu-Williams. The court also ordered that the Independent National Electoral Commission...
SERAP in an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, urged him to stop the leadership and members of the House from taking delivery of 360 Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs). The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Civil Society Organisation, has vowed to stop the National Assembly from taking delivery of 360 Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) estimated at N57.6 billion. This is even as it asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to withhold delivery...
Kalu said he was buoyed by the court judgment. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, has hailed the Court of Appeal for upholding his election and also dismissing the petition of the Action Alliance (AA), which challenged his victory at the February 25, election for Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Levinus Nwabughiogu, Kalu expressed gratitude to the judiciary for...