Day: July 28, 2023

Akpabio knocks NASC over insecurity, filthy environment of NASS complex

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The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has decried the filthy environment and insecurity at the National Assembly complex as the 10th NASS settle for legislative work.   Akpabio said lawmakers were no longer safe because of infiltration of people who have no business in the complex, saying lawmakers have lost their telephones to hoodlums who position themselves in front of offices of Honourable members and Senators.   He specifically berated the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) for channelling all resources on staff allowances and emoluments.   Akpabio spoke…

Tinubu’s subsidy removal and the albatross hunting Nigerians, by Rayyan Alhassan

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Fuel subsidy removal by the present administration of President Bola Tinubu has come with a thunderous alarm. Although the intention may be good, pure and sincere, and in fact it is even noble but the reality now is that it is severely haunting everyone. Both the haves and haves-not are wailing. It is dealing a fatal knockout punch on teeming citizens, whose lives have since been made miserable and wretched. The Nigerian economy had almost strangulated them. But it appears that the ‘ill-conceived’ idea to abruptly end the payment of…

Ministerial Nominee: Mohammed Idris Malagi, profile in entrepreneurship, service to humanity

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One of the Ministerial nominees unveiled on Thursday July 27 at the Nigeria’s Senate is Muhammad Idris, a renowned entrepreneur.   He is easily known as the Publisher of Blueprint newspapers, based in Abuja, Nigeria. Most people refer to him simply as Chairman.   Idris who holds the traditional title of Kakaaki Nupe is a nominee from Niger State, North Central Nigeria.   Those who know him closely attest to his thoroughness, humility and kindness.   Significantly Idris can equally be described as a self-made, who by the grace of…

Akpabio celebrates Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele @60

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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has sent his felicitations to the Leader of the Senate, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, on the occasion of his 60th birthday.   Akpabio, in a statement by his media office, described Senator Bamidele as a “civil rights activist from his youth, brilliant lawyer, principled politician and a true disciple of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”   “I join his family, friends and political associates to celebrate this very distinguished parliamentarian, as he reaches this milestone.   “As we rejoice with Senator Bamidele on this occasion,…

Senate to begin ministerial screening Monday

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Nigeria’s Senate said it will on Monday begin the screening of the 28 ministerial nominees proposed by President Bola Tinubu.   Spokesperson of the Senate, Adeyemi Adaramodu (APC-Ekiti), disclosed this while addressing newsmen after the list of the nominees was read in the upper chamber on Thursday.   Sen Adaramodu said that although the Senate was not supposed to sit on Mondays, but because of the importance attached to this national assignment, “we have suspended all our rules for them to commence the exercise next Monday”.   He assured that…

Analyst Congratulates Imaan-Suleiman Ibrahim, Minister Designate.

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By ABUBAKAR YUSUF.       A media analyst, Mallam Abubakar Yusuf has sent a message of felicitation to Hajiya Imaan-Suleiman Ibrahim, stating that her appointment as Minister was well deserved. In a message on Friday, Yusuf maintained that the administrative and political wisdom of the new Minister was enough to position her for higher responsibility. He said in the last two years, Imaan-Suleiman has transformed the refugees commission and laid a solid foundation that nipped in the bud child abuse and trafficking within a short stint in NAPTIP. She…

Full List of House of Reps’ 134 Standing Committees

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The House of Representatives on Thursday July, 2023 unveiled the list of its much awaited standing committees; bellow is the full list of the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the committees.   FACTSHEET reported that Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas created additional committees for more effective oversight responsibility for the parliament.   The House now has a total of 133 standing Committees in addition to a new set of committees created to interface with parliaments all over the world for a more robust engagements between the Nigeria parliaments and other parliaments…

CAC to deregister 100,000 coys over failure to file annual returns

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The Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, says it will strike off one hundred thousand companies that have failed to file annual returns in the last ten years. The Registrar-General of the CAC, Garba Abubakar, in a statement, said this while speaking at a Training Workshop on the Use of the Beneficial Ownership Register, BOR, in Lagos. Mr Abubakar, however, said that the Commission would soon send notices of striking off to the affected companies before embarking on the action as enshrined in section 692 of the CAMA,2020. He explained that the…

The Wagnerization of Asari Dokubo by Tinubu? by Frank Tietie

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There is a trending video of Asari Dokubo on social media at this time of writing that is hard to ignore by any well-meaning Nigerian.   Asari is seen in the video from the portico of a storey building, addressing an organized, uniformed group of men who are standing in the rain. Claiming that he had just returned from Hajj, in the apparent hope of patronizing the Muslims among us, he began taunting his imagined opponents of President Tinubu and thereafter burst into a defiant, twisted post-Emilokan refrain in praise…