September 2021 - OrderPaper

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...