PDP NWC Meets This Week To Determine Who To Support Over 9th National Assembly Leadership
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party will meet in Abuja this week to determine who to support among those aspiring to lead the two chambers of the Ninth National Assembly, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Those expected to be at the meeting are members of the party’s National Working Committee led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus; lawmakers-elect for the Ninth National Assembly; outgoing principal officers of the Eighth National Assembly who are members of the party and some selected members of the party’s National Executive Council. It is not clear yet if the party’s presidential candidate
N’Assembly Raises Concern Over FIRS N160M Budget For Uniform To 850 Drivers
Agency Report The National Assembly Joint Committee has raised concern over Federal Inland Revenue Service’s (FIRS) 2019 projected estimate of non-oil revenue tax collection of N146.54 billion. The co-chairman of the committee, John Enoh, and other members of the committee raised the concern at FIRS’s budget defence in Abuja on Monday. The committee sought to know why the 2018 approved estimate was N153.85 billion, while the 2019 projected cost stood at N146.54, amounting to 4.75 per cent decrease. On personnel cost, the committee asked why the service was proposing 14.6 per cent increase in number of staff from 7, 854
Photo: Outgoing Senators, Reps Move Property Out of N’Assembly
Lawmakers who did not contest or win reelection in the last general elections have begun to move their belongings out of the National Assembly Complex, The Punch has observed. Properties of lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives, who will not be part of the coming 9th National Assembly, were seen being moved out of the premises in trucks and pick-up vans between Wednesday and Friday. For instance, a pick-up van driven out of the premises at about 7.30pm on Wednesday was loaded with fridges and water dispensers. On Friday, two vehicles sighted by our correspondent, carried furniture, electronics
We Don’t Need PDP Lawmakers To Elect N’Assembly Leaders – APC Insists
— APC is playing to the gallery, PDP fires back The ruling All Progressives Congress has reiterated its position that federal lawmakers elected on the party’s platform do not need the support of their colleagues from the Peoples Democratic Party to elect the National Assembly leaders. It said the APC lawmakers could only reach out to their counterparts from the PDP when there was a need for two-thirds of the members of the parliament to take a decision. https://youtu.be/_X2j-AH5JLM (Make it a date with Gio tv Facebook Live Program . Watch Out for Extreme Encounter Reality TV Show Tagged "Come
Details of National Assembly’s 2018 Budget Hits Public Domain
The National Assembly has released the details of its budget for the 2018 fiscal year. The Office of the Senate President disclosed the details of the budget in a tweet on Friday. It explained that the disclosure was in line with the commitment of the leadership of the 8th Assembly to accountability and transparency. The details were released following pressure from human rights activists and civil society groups in the country. Of the N139.5 billion earmarked for the National Assembly, the Senate got a total of N35.58 billion while the House of Representatives had N57.4 billion. The National Assembly Office got
National Assembly Agrees To Reconvene By September
The leaders of the National Assembly have agreed to reconvene before September 25 to consider and approve the budget for the 2019 general elections, Daily Trust has reported. The leadership of the National Assembly agreed to this after the meetings with INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. It was also reported that both upper and lower chambers of the house would only sit for a day and continue with their annual recess, which is due to end on the 25th of September. Credit: Daily Trust
Election Budget: Nass To Work With Joint Committee Report For Action
The Chairman Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Suleiman Nazif, on Friday said the committee would submit its report to the Committee on Appropriation for further action. Nazif made this known when the Minister of Budget and Planning, Udo Udoma and INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, appeared before the joint committee on INEC in Abuja on Friday The joint committee had invited Yakubu to appear before it to give further clarification on the commission’s budget for the 2019 general elections. President Muhammadu Buhari had requested the National Assembly to approve N189billion, out of which N143.52 billion will
Battles Thicken Between APC, PDP Senators To Control Leadership of Assembly As Nass Reconvens On Tuesday
There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress senators and their Peoples Democratic Party counterparts are heading for a showdown as the National Assembly reconvenes on Tuesday. Saturday PUNCH reliably gathered on Friday that the bone of contention bordered on what should be discussed at the plenary on Tuesday. It was learnt that senators, who are loyal to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, were insisting that the only agenda would be the consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s budget for the 2019 elections. The anti-Saraki lawmakers on the other hand, said nothing was sacrosanct, adding that they could raise
Nass Invasion: APC Attacks Saraki Again Even As Police Report Indicts APC Senators
The Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has again hit the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, with verbal attacks, calling him a traitor, betrayer and a man unfit to hold a public office even as a priminary report conducted by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, over the invasion of the National Assembly has indicted some APC senators loyal to president Muhammadu Buhari. The report which was obtained by leadership Newspaper confirmed that the former DG of DSS did not act on his own stead but was working with APC Senators who were having another meeting at
Breaking: National Assembly To Reconven Next Week
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yussuff Lasun, has announced that the National Assembly will be reconvening next week Tuesday. Mr Lasun disclosed this to journalists in a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. The lawmakers upon resumption will look into President Muhammadu Buhari’s request of funding the 2019 general elections. Credit : Channels TV
