Former members of the National Assembly and prominent civil rights activists have described the jumbo pay of Nigerian lawmakers as a conspiracy between the federal executive and the legislature. A senator earns about N15m every month and a member of the House of Representatives earns about N10m. These eminent Nigerians, who spoke with SATURDAY PUNCH […]
The row over 2011 budget between the Federal Government and National Assembly may be nipped in the bud following moves by key parastatals to submit their proposals to the federal legislature. Senate President David Mark had warned on Wednesday that the budget would not be approved until government’s budgetary proposals for federal parastatals, departments and […]
The 2011 Appropriation Bill scaled the second reading at the Senate yesterday, even as Senate President David Mark warned that the budget would not be approved until government’s budgetary proposals for federal parastatals, departments and agencies are forwarded to the National Assembly. After an exhaustive debate, the Senate referred the appropriation bill to its committee […]
THE Senate, on Wednesday, said it passed 24 bills and 27 resolutions during its 2010 calendar year. Chairman, Senate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Aloysius Etok, who disclosed this at a news conference to mark the end of the year, added that there were many more bills at various stages of consideration. “This year, […]
Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Mrs. Nkoyo Toyo, has expressed intention to pick a Peoples Democratic Party ticket to the House of Representatives. Toyo, who is also Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the African Union Commission, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Addis Ababa that she was seeking to represent the Calabar/Odukpani Federal Constituency of Cross […]
The recent public endorsement of the Senate President, David Mark by the Benue state Governor, Gabriel Suswam for the Benue South senatorial seat in 2011 is already causing ripples in the camp of his rival contestant, General Lawrence Onoja. The Senate President, David Mark, a few weeks back, in Otukpo the ancestral home of the […]
Barely 48 hours after 20 governors who are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) endorsed the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan for the January 13, 2011 presidential primaries of the party, about 75 of the party’s 85 senators are believed to have also indicated their readiness to support the president’s aspiration. Senate sources told […]
ALTHOUGH Nigeria spends about 25 per cent of its national expenditure on the National Assembly, official sources within the US government has put the cost of running the entire US congress, including salaries of senators and representatives, at 0.2 per cent of all federal spending. Recently, a statement credited to the Governor of the Central Bank […]
SPEAKER, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has argued that the Executive arm of government should be blame for high cost of governance in Nigeria, claiming that the first tier of government expends about 50 per cent of the nation’s budget on itself. Bankole, who was Guest Speaker at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria yesterday, […]
Contrary to the situation in Nigeria where about 25 per cent of the nation‘s budget is used to service the National Assembly, the US official sources has put the cost of running the entire US congress, including salaries of senators and representatives, at 0.2 per cent of its federal spending, Empowered Newswire reports. Recent assertion […]
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