OrderPaperToday – The Senate has waded into the crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly. This was sequel to a motion sponsored by Sen. Istifanus Gyang (PDP, Plateau) who asked the Senate sought to uphold the legislature’s independence as an arm of government and set aside the impeachment of the assembly’s speaker. The motion, entitled “Disruption of Legislative Business in Plateau State House of Assembly: Need for early intervention by the Senate to avoid deterioration,”...
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OrderPaperToday – The Senate has passed the electoral bill to empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to determine the procedure for voting and transmission of results during an election. The development followed the consideration of the report of the Harmonization Conference Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Recall that the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, on October 13, 2021, constituted a seven-man conference committee to meet with their...
OrderPaperToday – The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, said he reconciled former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida and President General Muhammadu Buhari in 2005. The former governor of Abia State said this on Friday while reacting to comments about the picture of the meeting he posted on his Facebook page on Thursday. Sen. Orji mentioned that he organised a meeting in his Igbere country home in 2005 in Abia State to reconcile both parties. He...
OrderPaperToday – A civil society organization, DataPhyte, has revealed that 65% of the 2021 Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIPs), otherwise known as constituency projects, have little or no sustainable impact on communities. The findings follow a comparative analysis to appraise how the 2021 ZIPs meets the underlying goals of providing grassroots empowerment interventions and supplementing infrastructural development to underserved communities across the country. Constituency projects (ZIPs) are executed by federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) based on...
OrderPaperToday – A civil society organization, DataPhyte, has revealed that 65% of the 2021 Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIPs), otherwise known as constituency projects, have little or no sustainable impact on communities. The findings follow a comparative analysis to appraise how the 2021 ZIPs meets the underlying goals of providing grassroots empowerment interventions and supplementing infrastructural development to underserved communities across the country. Constituency projects (ZIPs) are executed by federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) based on...
OrderPaperToday – With the current administration’s plans to implement the Oronsaye report (produced by the 2012 presidential committee on restructuring and rationalisation of government parastatals, commissions and agencies), it is assumed that the 9th Senate would align accordingly. However, the data reveals otherwise. This is because 37.4% of the total bills sponsored in the first two years of the current senate seek to establish one new public institution, agency, or parastatal. Thus of the 716 bills sponsored so...
OrderPaperToday – On the bills chart, the 24-member Lagos State contingent in the 9th House of Representatives has a total of 75 bills at midterm. Meanwhile, the three senators from the state have sponsored 21 bills within the same period. Thus, the total bills presented by both chambers’ representatives from Lagos stands at 96 bills. It is rather impressive despite a turbulent 2020. Sen. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Lagos West) has sponsored 11 bills, two of which have...
OrderPaperToday – On the bills chart, the 24-member Lagos State contingent in the 9th House of Representatives has a total of 75 bills at midterm. Meanwhile, the three senators from the state have sponsored 21 bills within the same period. Thus, the total bills presented by both chambers’ representatives from Lagos stands at 96 bills. It is rather impressive despite a turbulent 2020. Sen. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Lagos West) has sponsored 11 bills, two of which have...
OrderPaperToday– Senators from the south-south geopolitical zone of the country place fourth in terms of bills sponsored on a zonal basis. The region has a combined total of 18 senators representing their respective senatorial districts in the 9th National Assembly. Thus far, the senators have been able to muster a total of 105 bills, with Cross River and Rivers States leading with 27 bills each. Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa have a bills tally...
OrderPaperToday- So far, lawmakers from Kaduna State in the 9th National Assembly have a decent run compared to other states on the Bills chart. While the lawmakers in the Senate have a total of 36 bills, those in the House of Representatives have a total of 112 bills, making a combined run of 148 bills. Taking a look at individual Bills, Sen. Uba Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) has sponsored a total of 21 Bills at midterm....