The four oil marketers/importers initially fingered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as being responsible for the importation of the Off-Spec fuel have been exonerated by the House Committee on Petroleum Downstream. The exonerated companies include Duke Oil, MRS Oil and Gas, Oando Oil and Emadeb consortium (Hyde,...
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The House of Representatives on Thursday approved N4 trillion for fuel subsidy in the revised 2022 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) sent by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 7. The House also passed the sum of N182 billion as an increment for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) salary, while it...
The House of Representatives has reaffirmed its call for the declaration of state of emergency on insecurity in the country, following the gruesome murder of 92 people in Plateau state on April 10. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep. Yusuf Gagdi...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives seeking an increase in the 2022 budget deficit to be financed through borrowing from the domestic market. Buhari said this in a letter read by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila during plenary on Thursday. The President also requested for the review...
A drama played out on Wednesday at the House of Representatives after the Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase, refused a motion moved by a lawmaker due to noisemaking. The motion by Sergius Ogun had been lined up in the order paper as part of proceedings of the plenary at the...
A bill seeking to amend the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (2013) and also outlaw cross-dressing in Nigeria has been introduced for first reading at the House of Representatives. Referencing Section 4 of the same-sex Marriage Prohibition Act (2013) Honourable Muda Lawal Ulnar who sponsored the bill on Tuesday during...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede has criticised the House of Representatives, for falsely accusing the Board of imposing multiple fees on candidates preparing to take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Oloyede expressed...
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, on Wednesday blasted service chiefs and the ministers of relevant agencies over their failure to honour the lawmakers’ invitation. The lawmakers summoned the service chiefs and ministers of relevant ministries and agencies to appear before it in conjunction with...
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on unclaimed funds in commercial banks in Nigeria, has uncovered over N300 billion unclaimed funds in the banks. Rep. Uyme Idem, the Chairman of the committee said this on Wednesday in Abuja, adding that the amount represented a fraction of unclaimed funds...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – The group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC) Malam Mele Kyari, has said the NNPC has nothing to hide and will comply with the request of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. The disclosure by the NNPC CEO came in...
The House of Representatives is to investigate alleged imposition of multiple processing and administration fees by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and its accredited agents on candidates The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Sergius Ogun (PDP-Edo), at plenary on Wednesday, in Abuja. In...
Airline operators in Nigeria have alleged hijacked of aviation fuel by supply chain of the Jet A1 fuel, thereby driving up the price through artificial scarcity. The operators also expressed worry over the safety of airlines in Nigeria, adding that they were disturbed in the face of continuous hike...
Members of the House of Representatives have rescinded their decision on three bills earlier rejected in the process of the 1999 constitution amendment. The bills are on indigenship, citizenship, and 35 % affirmative action for women. The bills will be recommended for consideration and will be part of the...
The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has approved the appointment of Mr Chinedu Akubueze as the substantive Clerk of the Senate. This is contained in a statement by the commission’s Executive Chairman Mr Ahmed Amshi on Thursday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that until his...
Lawmakers on Tuesday voted against a bill seeking to provide special seats for women in the National and State Houses of Assembly. The bill was defeated in the Senate with 58 votes out of 91. In the House of Representatives 208 out of 290 lawmakers voted against it. Wife...
***rejects pension for Presiding Officers of Legislature By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate has approved financial autonomy for state legislatures, judiciary and local governments in the country. The approval came on Tuesday during voting on the report of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution...
The Senate has passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigerian Maritime Security Trust Fund. The passage of the bill followed the adoption of the report of Senate Conference Committee on the Nigerian Maritime Security Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill, 2022 at Wednesday’s plenary. The Chairman of the Conference Committee,...
The House of Representatives on Thursday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to urgently deploy physical enumerators and other assistance to conduct new voter registration across all federal constituencies. INEC had put in place a machinery for a virtual continuous voters registration, but the online process does not...
…As NNPC CEO assures fuel queues will vanish in few days By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya has assured Nigerians that his Committee will handle companies who imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled plans to investigate the utilisation of the N165 billion appropriated for the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS) over the past two years. The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion on ‘Urgent national importance on the deplorable state of Inmates...