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The Federal Government received N3.211 trillion as Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT) and Royalties from the third quarter of 2015 to third quarter of 2017, according to.... Read more via The Guardian Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2KgLIev Get more: Nigeria Business News

The leadership of the National Assembly says Nigeria can no longer condone the repeated killings of innocent citizens. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, said this... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2Mt0JGz Get More Nigeria Political News

Some electricity consumers in Lagos have urged the National Assembly to pass the bill criminalising estimated billing by Distribution Companies. They told the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews in Lagos on Wednesday that the issuance of estimated bills to unmetered customers was...

Publish What You Pay-Nigeria, a national coalition of over 150 Civil Society organisations across the nation’s six geo-political zones has disclosed that.... Read more via The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2lxaOXu Get more: Nigeria Business News

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has urged the government of.... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MXqtvS Get More Nigeria Political News

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG, weekend, decried allegation by the Presidency that the National Assembly.... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2K6g17A Get More Nigeria Metro News

The leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has faulted the N11.5 billion infrastructure vote cut in the.... Read more via The Guardian Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MUtlcI Get more: Nigeria Business News

The Pan Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF) has described as unacceptable the reduction made from the 5billion naira initially approved for the take off of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Warri South Local Government Area, by the National Assembly in the 2018 Appropriation Act. It has … Read...

The Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project, the Campaign for Democracy, and a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), have berated the National Assembly for injecting N578bn constituency projects into the 2018 budget. SERAP, the CD and Falana, in … Read more via Punch...

The National Assembly has said that the 2018 budget was adjustments and reduced so as to address geo-political imbalances and that the figures given by the presidency as the amounts of reductions made by the National Assembly were unduly exaggerated. budget The NASS in a statement on Friday …...

Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi-West at the National Assembly, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of bringing sentiments into the alterations of the National Assembly to the 2018 budget. According to Melaye, the National Assembly is not a department of the Presidency, hence it...

More reactions have continued to trail the signing of the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. Assenting to the bill on Wednesday, the President had faulted the National .... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2Mhw6E6 Get More Nigeria Political News

The federal government recently accused Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state of poor governance. Minister of Defense, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, accused Yari.... Read more via Naija.ng News – https://ift.tt/2MdWL4I Get More Nigeria Political News

There is uproar in the land over the National Assembly’s massive alteration of the budget. In fact, a non-governmental organisation described the action as “criminal”. The lawmakers cut 4,700 projects amounting to N347billion from what President Muhammadu Buhari presented and introduced 6,403...

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Dino Melaye, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of playing to the.... Read more via Thisdaylive Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2If20yq Get More Nigeria Political News

Members of the House of Representatives have defended the decision of the National Assembly to raise its budget from the initial N125 billion to N139.5 billion in 2018. In their explanation, the lawmakers merely claimed the budget figure was small compared to past years. They … Read more...

National Assembly has defended decision to inject fresh projects and thinker with the 2018 budget, that led to the inclusion of 6403 projects worth.... Read more via BusinessDay – https://ift.tt/2toGm5H Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammad Buhari on Wednesday finally signed the 2018 appropriation bill into law. The President assented to the bill more than a month.... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2MIcKce Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari has turned down the possibility of meeting with the faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, known as the New Peoples Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP. The President was said to have reportedly vowed that he will not discuss with the aggrieved members of the …...

The Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Sunday Oduntan, tells OKECHUKWU NNODIM how the power sector will be adversely affected if the National Assembly passes the bill to criminalise estimated billing What are your views about the bill...