The House of Representatives has queried the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye for spending unrelated expenditures, including N45 million for a new year party, and N20 million for sanitary pads.
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The House of Representatives Committee investigating the arbitrary increase in cement prices has threatened to arrest the management of Dangote Cement if it failed to appear at its next hearing.
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to withhold allocation to states running a Transition Implementation Committee (TIC).
Okafor said that funds advanced to end users of the various Federal Government interventions had also been allegedly misused, misapplied and channelled to non-farming and non-agricultural purposes.
The House of Representatives said it would increase budgetary allocations of tertiary health facilities towards addressing high electricity bills and strengthening quality healthcare delivery services across Nigeria.
The House of Representatives Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility (SCR) has resolved to sanction MTN, Airtel, and other companies for failing to perform their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR).
“We wish to call on the government of Rivers State to immediately prepare treason charges against the 23 former LGA chairmen and their sponsors and co-conspirators for the failed attempt to unlawfully take the government of the 23 LGA knowing full well that their tenure had elapsed and they are no longer local government chairmen.”
Sponsors of the bill include Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere, Abdullmaleek Danga, Aliyu Mustapha, Francis Waive, Zakari Dauda Nyampa, Abdulla Muhammed, Abiante Dagomie, Ghali Mustapha, Chinedu Emeka and Emmanuel Ukpong-Udo.
The House of Representatives has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Women on the need to increase the number of women in governance.
They urged the federal government, to redirect the focus of its negotiation with labour, from fixing a minimum wage to fixing a realistic living wage in line with current market realities.