November 2015 - OrderPaper

By Bamikole Omishore Social media is an integral part of governance and leaders worldwide have accepted the need to maintain a social presence in one or more of the media platform to engage the electorate and further increase the conversations about governance. Few weeks ago, Head of Public Policy for Facebook in Africa reached out to Senate President, Senator ABubakar Bukola Saraki A New Media Savvy individual to offer to help train Nigerian Senators and...

OrderPaperToday – Senator Ben Bruce has advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) on how to implement its campaign promise to pay N5000 to unemployed graduates in the country. In a series of tweets from his Twitter handle this evening, Bruce disagreed with his APC colleagues in the senate who have been advancing excuses as to why the N5000 stipend payment cannot be implemented by the Muhammadu Buhari now. Recall that the senate had witnessed a...

By Alex Okoro OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to rebuild police stations destroyed by the menace of boko haram in the North-east part of the country.   The House also urged the Inspector General of Police to design modalities for partnering with well-meaning investors to renovate existing barracks and build new ones where required. –Sponsored Content — The resolution of the House followed a motion titled “Urgent...

OrderPaperToday – Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives  Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Gaza Jonathan has claimed that the rift between Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila has been laid to rest as both men have resolved to sheath their swords. Mr. Jonathan said at a briefing with the House Press Corp on Tuesday.   According to him, Gbajabiamila met with Speaker Dogara in a closed door shortly after the All...

OrderPaperToday– Temporary reprieve has come the way of Senate President Bukola Saraki as the Supreme Court today ordered a stay of proceedings in his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on allegations of false asset declaration. The Federal Government instituted a case of false assets declaration against Senator Saraki but the senate president has mounted a challenge on the competence and jurisdiction of the tribunal to try him. The challenge was dismissed...

By Alex Okoro OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has demanded a more accountable and transparent response from oil multi-national companies with respect to spills resulting from their operations in the Niger delta. The House also lamented the recent multiple oil spills in Bayelsa state and urged the Nigerian Agip Oil Company to contain the spill in order to avoid fire outbreak and commence remediation efforts towards achieving an acceptable clean up. The House resolved specifically...

OrderPaperToday – The Senate ad-hoc committee on power, currently investigating privatisation in the power sector, accused officials of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) of compromise in monitoring firms which bought the assets. The committee came down hard on the agency which supervised the process and pointedly accused some of its staff of receiving gratification from companies they are meant to monitor. Specifically, the committee noted with regret that information at its disposal, indicated that some...

OrderPaperToday – Former Minister of Power under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, Prof. Barth Nnaji, has refuted claims in some quarters that the unbundling of the power sector is a failure despite some shortcomings in generation and distribution. Prof. Nnaji stated this while fielding questions at a public hearing organized by the Senate Committee probing the power sector on Wednesday in the National Assembly. He noted that mismanagement has played a major role in the sector’s full actualization...

By Muhammadu Buhari Today we have reached another milestone in the evolution of our new government which Nigerians overwhelmingly voted into office in the March 28th, 2015 general elections. Today we witness the swearing-in of new ministers of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Since our inauguration on May 29, 2015, the Vice President and I have been mindful of the need to constitute a cabinet that will best deliver our expectations of...

OrderPaperToday –The recently introduced Treasury Single Account (TSA) by the federal government has run into troubled waters as what is believed to be a scam running into twenty-five billion naira (N25bn) has been unearthed in the management of the scheme. The Senate on Wednesday mandated its Committees on Finance, Banking and other financial institutions; and Public Account to carry out a holistic investigation into the activities of REMITA, an E-collection agency engaged by government to...