LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Thursday condemned the absence of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, at an investigative public hearing on the alleged financial recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission. The Chairman of the Senate ad hoc panel, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, expressed disappointment at the absence of Akpabio whom…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday passed a Bill which amended the Police Act and proscribed among others a four-year single tenure for the office of the Inspector-General of Police. The proposed legislation is titled, “Police Act CAP P19 LFN 2004 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2020” The bill states that the tenure was introduced…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Drama played out on Tuesday as some senators walked the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, out of a meeting. The lawmakers had invited Keyamo to give details of the Special Public Works Programme where 774,000 people would be recruited by the Federal Government under the National Directorate…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to consider a comprehensive review of the power privatisation policy with a view to reversing the current arrangement. The red chamber said Nigerians would not enjoy stable power supply in the next 10 years if the activities of the distribution companies were not reviewed…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator representing Niger South, Bima Enagi, has introduced a bill that seeks to ban the use and importation of generators in Nigeria. The bill, titled “a bill for an Act to prohibit/ban the importation of generating sets to curb the menace of environmental (air) pollution and to facilitate the development of…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A renowned human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome SAN, has urged the Senate to restrain from passing the bill seeking an agency for rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram members, arguing that the proposal is “madness taken to its very ludicrous Zenith and apogee”. He postulated that the proposed bill “is an unfortunate confirmation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Should ‘A Bill for the Establishment of the National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria and for Other Connected Purposes’, be signed into law, repentant Boko Haram members will be funded to get foreign education. “The agency shall implement programmes geared towards the rehabilitation of…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Thursday agreed to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over the $396m expended on turnaround maintenance of refineries in the country between 2013 and 2015. The red chamber also mandated the committees on Petroleum Downstream, Upstream and Gas to carry out a holistic investigation into the expenditure incurred by…