archiveNovember 2019

  President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and his Deputy, Ovie Omo-Agege, led other lawmakers, friends and well-wishers to rejoice with one of their own who was recently elevated as a member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers. Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and legal...

The Senate on Thursday received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the approval of the Federal Government’s 2016 - 2018 borrowing plan. The letter, which was dated November 26, 2019, was read on the floor by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary. President Buhari, in the...

  The Senate on Thursday mandated its Committee on Housing to urgently work out modalities with the various stakeholders in the National Housing Development sector to ensure the implementation of affordable housing for the poorest Nigerians. The resolution was reached after consideration of a motion on the “Urgent need to...

says Apete-Awotan axis set to witness huge govt presence   Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has pledged to rehabilitate the Awotan Dumpsite off Apete/Akufo Road to prevent environmental hazard in the area. The Governor made the pledge while speaking during a visit for an on-the-spot assessment of the site...

  The Senate has mandated its Committee on Legislative Compliance to investigate the delay in takeoff of the Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPADEC) after nine years of its passage into law. The upper chamber while mandating the committee to probe the utilization of the sum of N612,177,269...

    “Education reduces economic inequalities. It was found that if workers from poor and rich backgrounds received the same education, the disparity between the two in terms of their inequality in earning is decreased by as much as almost 40%.” “There is a logical link between education and poverty,...

  The House of Representatives Thursday followed the foot step of the Senate and passed the 2019 Finance Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari after it passed its third reading. The bill, which introduced tax incentives for investment in infrastructure, capital markets and supports small businesses also amended six tax...

A former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has vowed to kill the Hate Speech Bill being considered at the Senate. Osoba spoke on Thursday during the ongoing 15th All Nigeria Editors’ Conference in Sokoto. He noted that the Bill would have been dead on arrival if the Governor...

  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, threatened to deal with lecturers harassing students sexually in all the higher institutions of learning in the state. Abiodun said he would exercise ‘the full weight of the law’ on any lecturer who takes sexual advantage of their students. Abiodun emphasised that...

  As UK Court okays FG’s plea The Nigerian Government has moved closer to overturning the US$9.6 billion judgement debt awarded against it in favour of Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) by a United Kingdom court in what is widely believed to be an injustice and a direct result...