A former staff member of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Mr Haruna Kolo, has alleged that job seekers paid millions of naira into his personal account for remission to the commission’s Chairman, Mrs Farida Dankaka. Kolo said this on Monday in Abuja at the resumed investigative hearing of...
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The House of Representatives, says it will revisit the case of the N11.3 trillion allegedly spent by the Federal Government on the turn-around maintenance of Nigeria’s refineries between 2010 and 2020. Rep. Bamidele Salam, Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, said this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on...
It is pedestrian knowledge that Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives, recently constituted 134 standing committees in the green chamber where Ibori Suenu, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) member from Delta, was announced Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) committee. This announcement of standing Committees going...
Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, FCC, Dr Muheeba Dankaka, said the Commission was “a marketplace for selling job slots” before her appointment to the office by immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari on April 28, 2020. Dankaka said that her attempts to check the alleged corruption and obvious...
The Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Ejikeme Mmesoma, Rt. Hon. Soli Sada, has commended the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for the technological innovations deployed by the board for the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Sada, who...
The Federal Government says it will continue to dialogue with the members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and the labour unions towards addressing their grievances. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, said this after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential...
The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating employment racketeering in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government has summoned the Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF) to appear before it on July 27. Others invited included the Director General of Budget Office and the Chairman, Civil Service...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas has inaugurated an Ad hoc Committee to investigate alleged 9.05 billion dollar-revenue loss from gas flaring in the last one decade in Nigeria. Abbas, at the inauguration of the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring on Monday,...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, says the 10th Assembly is ready to respond and urgently too, to the yearnings of Nigerians who brought them to the National Assembly. Abbas said this at a stakeholders meeting on the 10th House of Reps Legislative Agenda in...
The Action Alliance (AA) in Abia has asked the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia to annul the election of the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker, Mr Benjamin Kalu of APC. The party hinged its demand on the alleged exclusion of its name and logo from the...
The House of Representatives has rejected move by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to approve any increase in electricity tariff. The resolution followed a motion by the Deputy Minority Whip, Rep Aliyu Madaki at the plenary in Abuja on Thursday. In his motion, he expressed concern over the...
The House of Representatives has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to reveal without delay, all the interests and principal sums on the investments in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) Petroleum Profits (PTT) and Royalty Account to the Auditor-General for the Federation’s Office. The call was sequel to...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to revive the Public Mass Transit and Urban Mass Transit Schemes to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians following the removal of oil subsidy. The call is sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion, jointly sponsored by Rep. Olumide Osoba,...
The House of Representatives has resolved to set up an Ad hoc Committee to investigate the circumstances leading to the increment of pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from from N537 to N617. The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu (PDP-Imo)...
The House of Representatives has resolved to set up an Ad hoc Committee to investigate and ensure federal character compliance across agencies of government. The committee, when constituted is to invite and request the Federal Character Commission (FCC) to forward the returns on appointments undertaken by agencies of government under...
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on international boundary dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon on Thursday called for swift action to be taken to prevent the loss of another Cross River State territory to Cameroon like Bakassi. The Danare and Biajua communities and about 7,000 to 10,000 hectares...
The House of Representatives is to get N70 billion allocation from President Bola Tinubu’s N819 billion palliative meant to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy on Nigerians. The amount according to the President’s letter sent on July 12 and read by the Speaker, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, was meant to...
Members of the House of Representatives are demanding an upward review of their salaries and allowances, following the removal of fuel subsidy and the current economic situation in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the demand was the outcome of meeting the lawmakers had on...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas is to unveil committees and their chairmen to run the legislative agenda of the 10th Assembly on July 27. Also, members are to receive their official cars once the standing committees are constituted. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...