The report was presented to the House, debated, considered and resolutions passed in a session that was intriguing. However, the committee members alleged they had to struggle with so many pressures, threats, intimidation and even blackmail sometimes from unexpected quarters before they were able to write and submit the 205-page report with its 62 recommendations. […]
The House of Representatives had demanded the prosecution of the NNPC board headed by Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and the defunct PPPRA board led by former PDP chairman Ahmadu Ali over their roles in managing fuel subsidy funds.(view full text)
The NNPC, reacting to the finding in the probe report said the report of the House of Representatives subsidy probe committee which indicted the corporation for N845 billion fraud was absurd because the allegation was baseless. (View full text)
As expected, the probe into the controversial oil subsidy by the Hon Farouk Lawan – led ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives threw up shocking details of fraud beyond the figures that made headlines. We penetrated the 210-page document to provide insight into how the massive fraud took place. (View full text) View Subsidy […]
Governors, government officials, traditional and religious leaders as well as other prominent citizens were mounting pressures on members of the House of Representatives to kill the report of the Farouk Lawal-led ad hoc committee that had indicted key government agencies and officials in a massive fuel subsidy fraud. (view full text) View Subsidy Probe Report
Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo dismissed the House of Representatives subsidy inquiry report, which accused him of making questionable payments when he was accountant general of the federation in 2009-2010. (view full text) Featured picture source:http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/28086/2012/06/24/why_infrastructure_education_top_my_agenda_dankwambo.html
The long-awaited fuel subsidy inquiry report was submitted to the House of Representatives, with startling revelations of large-scale fraud of more than N1 trillion between 2009 and December 2011 (View full text) View Subsidy Probe Report
High-level lobbying had stalled the submission of the oil subsidy investigation report which was due to be laid before the House of Representatives, Senior government officials and fuel marketers affected by the report had launched intense pressure on the House to delay the report, which will recommend that importers be made to refund billions improperly […]
Who can own land? According to the Land Use Act of 1978, persons under the age of 21 years cannot be granted a statutory right of occupancy. When I was eight or nine years old, my mom bought me a piece of land in my father’s village. I only recently was given the receipt of […]
(featured image courtesy of globalgreehousewarming.com) THE National Assembly on May 7th, 2012 requested for memoranda from all stakeholders on excising the Land Use Act from the constitution. This is indeed another watershed moment in attempts to review the Act coming so soon after the earlier effort to reform the Act by late President Umaru Yar […]