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”.
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“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.
ASHENEWS reports that the National Association of Shiroro Students (NASS) has announced that the association has appointed Peace Isah, as the first female president in the history of the association.
The distribution of rice and grains by elected representatives in Nigeria has become a topic of concern and controversy in recent times. Allegations of corruption and mismanagement of public funds have plagued the political atmosphere, with one Honorable Member confessing that the Presidential Budget and Advisory Team directed the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to distribute large sums of money worth rice and grains to each House of Representatives member and Senator for distribution in their constituencies.