November 2015 - Page 2 of 4 - OrderPaper

OrderPaperToday – In what seems like submission to public opinion, President Muhammadu Buhari today swallowed his words and named ministries for all 36 ministers at the swearing-in ceremony today. The president also announced officially that he would retain the Ministry of Petroleum as substantive minister whilst Mr. Ibe Kachikwu is assigned as the Minister of State in the ministry. The President while in a foreign trip to India told the nation that the lean purse of...

OrderPaperToday – In what seems like submission to public opinion, President Muhammadu Buhari today swallowed his words and named ministries for all 36 ministers at the swearing-in ceremony today. The president also announced officially that he would retain the Ministry of Petroleum as substantive minister whilst Mr. Ibe Kachikwu is assigned as the Minister of State in the ministry. The President while in a foreign trip to India told the nation that the lean purse 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...

By Rotimi Fasan This week, perhaps on this very Wednesday that you are reading this, President Muhammadu Buhari would assign portfolios to the ones that must be considered lucky of the 36 ministers-designate. There have been media reports of anxiety among the ministers-to-be as to which of them would be lucky to be assigned portfolios. This followed the President’s remark that not all of the 36 would be assigned offices. While the Constitution recommends that...

OrderPaperToday – In what seems like submission to public opinion, President Muhammadu Buhari today swallowed his words and named ministries for all 36 ministers at the swearing-in ceremony today. The president also announced officially that he would retain the Ministry of Petroleum as substantive minister whilst Mr. Ibe Kachikwu is assigned as the Minister of State in the ministry. The President while in a foreign trip to India told the nation that the lean purse 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...

OrderPaperToday – Following the retirement of 17 permanent secretaries by presidential directive, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of 18 new others. The president also directed the redeployment of heads of the country’s bureaucracy in a move aimed at rejigging the federal service ahead of the swearing in of ministers Wednesday. A statement by the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the newly appointed permanent secretaries are as...

OrderPaperToday – If you are one of those who felt outraged at the N78million of public funds spent by ex-governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on his personal website then this will definitely shock you. The National Orientation Agency (NOA) paid a whopping $617,000 (equivalent to N123,400.00 at an exchange rate of N200 to $1) for a website that existed for just barely five months. The website www.nigerianext.com, was designed to publicize the transformation agenda...

1.    It is on record that Hon Yakubu Dogara has consistently taken the APC for granted on past occasions including the following: (I) Showed contempt for APC’s National Leadership by spearheading a boycott when the former attempted to offer guidelines to House members before the election that threw him up as Speaker, with slim majority. 2.   Upon his emergence as Speaker, Hon. Dogara insisted on foisting his misguided and arrogant imposition of so-called ‘federal character’...

OrderPaperToday – The constitution of standing committees of the senate by its president, Bukola Saraki has renewed tension as arrowhead of the Sen. Ahmed Lawan Unity  Group openly queried the exercise. Sen. Kabir Marafa representing Zamfara central senatorial district on Tuesday questioned the legality of the 65 standing committees announced by Saraki last Wednesday. Marafa raised a point of order to challenge Saraki’s powers to increase senate committees from 57 to 65 saying it was an...