Late Adewumi Onanuga’s seat at Tuesday’s plenary was covered in white as members offered prayers and adjourned plenary to Wednesday The House of Representatives and Senate on Tuesday adjourned plenary session in honour of the memory of late deputy Chief Whip of the House Rep. Adewunmi Oriyomi Onanuga. The member who represented Ikenne/Sagamu/Remo north federal constituency passed away on January 15, 2025 after a brief illness. The deputy speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu (APC Abia), who presided...
These agencies, said to be notorious for snubbing the national assembly, may get arrest warrants if they fail to respond by Thursday The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Bank of Industry (BOI), and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) are prominent among a list of federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that risk being issued with warrant of arrests over consistent snub of the national assembly. Others are the Office of the Accountant General of...
While $3.7 billion has been recovered to Government coffers, NEITI said its partnership with EFCC is ongoing to recover more funds owed by oil firms The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) revealed that it has recovered over $3.7 billion into government coffers in 2020 and 2021 as outstanding liabilities from companies operating in the oil and gas sector in the country. NEITI also said its collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
While the 2025 budget for NOSDRA drew eyebrows, the health council is assured of inclusion in the appropriation law The House of Representatives committee on environment has raised concerns over the 2025 budget of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), totaling ₦10,000,410,780 billion. The scrutiny occurred during the agency’s budget defense on Thursday in Abuja. Deputy chairman of the committee, Rep. Terseer Ugbor (APC Benue) criticised the agency’s budget allocation, noting that...
The Correctional Service said provision has been made for the feeding of inmates and recruitment of 5,000 personnel The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), has revealed the sum of N38 billion has been allocated for feeding the country’s 91,100 inmates, at a daily cost of N1,125 per person. The service also said in order to address the overcrowding crisis and strengthen the NCoS, President Bola Tinubu has directed the recruitment of 5,000 new personnel into the...
With its allocation, the REA should be able to deploy solar energy across the public sector to limit reliance on the national electricity grid The Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has expressed satisfaction with the agency’s 2025 budget allocation, describing it as unprecedented in the history of the agency. Speaking on Wednesday after presenting REA’s 2024 budget performance and 2025 projections to the National Assembly, Aliyu commended President Bola Tinubu...
The committee rejected the capital allocation of N1.2 billion in the 2025 budget for the ministry of information and the NOA. The House of Representatives committee on information and national orientation has criticised the ₦8.7 billion budget allocation for the ministry of information and national orientation in 2025. Lawmakers unanimously declared the capital component of N1.2 billion in the budge as grossly inadequate and resolved to make a case for the ministry before the relevant...
The National Assembly has praised FIRS for surpassing its 2024 revenue target, hitting N21.6 trillion, and set an ambitious N25 trillion target for 2025 The National Assembly has commended the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for surpassing its 2024 revenue target. This happened on Wednesday during the budget defence of the FIRS led by its Executive Chairman, Zacch Adedeji, who stressed how the agency had surpassed its revenue collection target of N19.4 trillion to N21.6...
The warning was prompted by the absence of the Director General of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service who was scheduled to present his agency’s performance review. The National Assembly joint committee on agricultural production and services has threatened to withhold allocations in the 2025 budget for agencies under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security whose officials fail to account for their 2024 budget performance and 2025 projections. The warning on was given on...
Akpabio emphasised the transformative power of budgets in addressing societal inequalities. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has called for the ₦49.74 trillion 2025 budget to prioritise the welfare of Nigerians, aligning with the Tinubu administration’s vision of a better future. Akpabio made this assertion on Thursday while giving his opening remarks at the stakeholders’ public hearing and interactive session on the 2025 appropriation bill. Akpabio emphasised the transformative power of budgets in addressing societal...
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