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NCS Chief Claims More Money Spent on Feeding Dogs than Prison Inmates

Members of the National Assembly joint committee on the Interior Thursday described as unacceptable, revelations by the authorities of the Nigerian Correctional Service that it spends more money to feed dogs than the inmates. The Controller General of the NCS Haliru Nababa disclosed…

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Reps Issue Warrant Of Arrest Against CBN Gov, AGF, Others

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has issued a warrant of arrest against the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, for refusing to appear before it to answer questions on the oil sector. The panel also ordered the arrest of…

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EFCC Presents N76.586 Billion Budget Proposal to House of Reps

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, presented a budget of N76.586billion (Seventy Six Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty Six Million Naira) as its budget proposal for 2024 to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Crimes. The…

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Oshiomhole Carpets FG, Govs Over Pension Funds

Senator Adams Oshiomhole(Edo North) has decried the misappropriation of the contributory pension funds by Governors and the Federal Government, saying both parties were ignoring loans offered by commercial banks and going for the workers fund, owing to the very low interest rate. He…

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Reps Query Water Resources Ministry over N25m Borehole Cost

The Public Accounts Committee, PAC, Of the House of Representatives currently investigating Ministries Departments and Agencies MDAs of the Federal Government on the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 intervention funds from 2020-2022 has queried the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for reportedly sinking …

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Doguwa Defends Tinubu Over Empty Budget Box Hoax

Former House Majority leader, Alhassan Ado Doguwa on Friday denied President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented an empty Budget Box before the National Assembly. A statement by the Chairman, of the Northern Caucus explained that “what people don’t know is that the President had…

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Halt Allocation of States Running LGs with Caretaker Committees, Senate Tells FG

The Senate has urged the federal government to withhold statutory allocation to Local Government (LG) councils whose chief executives and councilors were not democratically elected. The resolution of the red chamber to withhold statutory allocation to LGs whose CEOs were not democratically elected,…

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Senate Leader Faults N9.9tr Recurrent Expenditure in 2024 Budget

The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, said on Thursday the N9.9 trillion set aside as recurrent expenditure in the 2024 budget was too high. Bamidele stated this at the opening of the debate on general principles of the budget at the plenary in Abuja. President…

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Senate Threatens To Sack NNPCL GMD Over Moribund Refineries

The Senate has asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and its subsidiaries to submit relevant documents relating to the turnaround maintenance projects of Nigerian refineries. The Senate noted that from 2010 to date, over N12 trillion has been spent on TAM.…

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Senate to Probe $500m Failed Abuja CCTV Contract

The Senate at plenary on Wednesday unanimously agreed to probe the $500 million contract for the installation of the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) camera awarded in 2015 but allegedly poorly implemented. The resolution of the Senate was sequel to the adoption of a…

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