The leadership of the Senate, oh what a shining beacon of transparency and integrity they are! Allegations of monumental scandalous fraud involving the insertion of frivolous amounts running into trillions of naira for fictitious projects? Well, who would have thought that our esteemed lawmakers could be capable of such shenanigans?
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“So, what is the power of the National Assembly as regards the budget? There is no Supreme Court judgement and the choice of our democracy is that the National Assembly has the last word. Even when they pass an appropriation that assent is refused, after 30 days, it becomes law,” Bagudu said.
Surprisingly, N6,671,810,092,564 (out of the N8,447,887,443,379), representing approximately 71.98% of the total ‘Development Capital Allocation’, NASS “assigned to initiatives that are either elusive in terms of traceability or encumbered by significant accountability constraints”.
“We have seen the huge damage that was done not only to the North but the entire country in that budget. We are supposed to sit with the Senate president to inform him about what we have observed.
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has revealed that each of the 36 state governors, received ₦30 billion (a total of ₦1.08 trillion from the Federation Account to cushion the effect of hardship and the high cost of food in their respective states.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, allowed for the First Reading of three bills to amend the 1999 Constitution to transition from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government. The bills, sponsored by 60 lawmakers across party lines, are expected to be gazette for the Second Reading and will be referred to the Ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review, chaired by Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, for further legislative action.
The Nigerian Senate has received the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu and the nation’s Service Chiefs for a closed-Door meeting over issues of insecurity in the country.
The National Assembly has emphasized the urgent need to empower farmers with modern tools and financial resources as a crucial…
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Production Services and Rural Development, Senator Saliu Mustapha, gave the assurance at a technical session on the draft agricultural extension service delivery revitalization bill organized by Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN-ICON2) Project in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The Womanifesto, a group of over 500 women organizations , activists, advocates and practitioners, has called on the National Assembly (NASS) members to resume from their extended recess to tackle insecurity in the country.