OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has begun moves to loop ride hailing services, including Bolt and Uber, into the tax net of the country. In this regard, the House instituted a panel to investigate the level of compliance of the companies with the country’s extant tax laws. The adhoc committee is mandated to report back within four weeks for further legislative action. This was sequel to a motion on the “Urgent Need to Investigate the...
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OrderPaperToday – Senators from Yobe state appeared not to be interested in lending their voices to national discuss through the legislative window of motions and petitions sponsorship. Despite enormous challenges confronting the Northeast region, the Senators have maintained silence on motions and petitions in the first two years of the 9th Senate according to records. Sen. Gaidam Ibrahim (APC, Yobe East) joined the Senate after serving as the governor of Yobe state for eight years making...
OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has frowned at the practice of zero capital budgetary allocation for foreign missions. This is as the House decried the deplorable conditions of the country’s missions abroad and expressed concern over cases of indiscriminate posting of Foreign Service Officers above the approved ceiling. The members of the green chamber raised the above concerns while deliberating on the report submitted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired by Mr. Yusuf...
OrderPaperToday – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Yakubu Mahmood has said the agency is not directly responsible for the financial burden of having direct or indirect primaries for political parties. The chairman also disclosed that the Commission was still working on modalities concerning the financial implications involved in direct primaries. Recall that the House had last Thursday invited the INEC Chairman to appear before its Committees on Electoral Matters and Appropriation and...
OrderPaperToday – Will fuel subsidy be removed in 2022? This is the million dollar question causing, by far, the biggest anxiety and apprehension among Nigerians as the curtain draws on 2021 and the new year approaches. A recent pronouncement by the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd that fuel subsidy will be removed in 2022 has been corroborated by announcement by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs....
OrderPaperToday – The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Muazu Sambo Hajia as minister designate after scaling the screening hurdles on the floor of the upper chamber. President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier nominated Mr. Sambo as a ministerial nominee from Taraba State. Mr. Sambo is to replace either of the former Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, who was sacked in September, or Mr. Sabo Nanono, the former agriculture minister. –Sponsored Content — While fielding questions...
OrderPaperToday – Like its predecessors, the 9th National Assembly has been on the process of reviewing the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) with some level of citizens engagement. The process has been through zonal public hearings and a national town hall where the views of Nigerians were harvested. However, Nigerians have continued to ventilate and identify priority areas they want amended in the constitution. And this is expected to continue as long...
OrderPaper Today – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has called for collaboration between the National Assembly and the 36 State Houses of Assembly to make the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution successful. In a statement signed by Mr. Lanre Lasisi, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, Gbajabiamila spoke at a meeting of the Conference of Presiding Officers of Nigerian Legislatures (COPON) in Abuja at the weekend. He stated that the...
OrderPaperToday – The imperative of permeating the tenets of fiscal responsibility and prudent management of resources to the sub-national levels of government formed the principal output of a two days sensitization workshop put together for stakeholders in the South-west geopolitical zone of the country. The workshop was as part of its on-going strategic plans to sensitize critical stakeholders in different parts of the country to buy into the fiscal responsibility initiative particularly by the Sub-National Governments....
OrderPaperToday – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has said issues of gender balancing and care for Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) is being addressed in the ongoing amendments to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. This, he said would give equal participation in governance to both men and women as well as PLWDs. Gbajabiamila spoke in Abuja on Wednesday when he played host to a delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at the National Assembly....