Budget 2017: Osibajo signs appropriations bill into law

Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has signed the
2017 appropriation bill into law.

Professor Osinbajo signed the budget at about 4:40
p.m. on Monday inside his conference room
in the presence of the Chief of Staff to
President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari;
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara,
Ministers and other top government officials.

Ogun, FCT and Other 18 States to share N40bn ecological fund

Ogun State, 18 opposition States and Federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja and that were excluded from the sharing of ecological funds in 2013 during the administration of the former Goodluck Jonathan are set to get their own shares.

The states that got the ecological funds were all PDP states
and states of other parties that were
sympathetic to the PDP like Labour Party in
Ondo and APGA in Anambra State. Nineteen states and the FCT did not get
the N2bn each from the Ecological Fund.

According to Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who addressed the journalists said the States that were excluded are; Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Borno,
Edo, Ekiti , Imo , Jigawa, Kano , Kwara and
Lagos.

“Others are Nasarawa , Niger , Ogun , Osun ,
Oyo , Rivers , Sokoto , Yobe and Zamfara.

Each State is to collect N2bn each denied them by the Jonathan administration from the funds set aside.

Breaking: Cross-River Senator dumps PDP for APC

The senator representing Cross River central, John Enoh, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Senator Enoh is chairman of the senate committee on finance in the National Assembly.

While Speaking on the floor of the senate on Tuesday, Enoh said he had registered as a member of the APC in his ward.

At this point, the chamber became rowdy as APC senators got up to welcome Enoh to the party.

Commenting on the development, senate president, Bukola Saraki, wished him well on his sojourn in the APC.

“I wish him fruitful service to his people on the platform he has chosen,” Saraki said.

APC targets N1.2bn membership dues monthly

The National office of All Progressives Congress (APC) is  to rake in the sum of N1.2
billion monthly from membership dues collection so to generate funds internally.

The party has refused the State Governors to fund it so as not to hijack the party, yet it has been experiencing funding
challenges, hopes to overcome it through a
newly acquired software system which enables it
to deduct the sum of N100 monthly from the
members’ airtime as they recharge their mobile.

The National Treasurer of the party, Alhaji Ibrahim
Gwagwarwa, said the software was designed in
such a way that N100 would be deducted from
each members mobile phones automatically
from airtime recharge at the end of every
month.

The sum of N1.2 billion was
arrived at based on the of registered APC
members currently put at 12 million, According to the Treasurer.

National
Executive Committee (NEC) has approved the
electronic system for membership dues
collection.

He said the party was making arrangement to
decentralise the installations to make it easy for
members to be captured in all the geo-political zones.

Nigerian Senate resumes, adjourns sitting for Adeleke

The Nigerian Senate resumed from its 2-week break on Today but adjourned plenary to Wednesday to mourn a member of the Senate, Isiaka Adeleke of Osun West Senatorial District.

The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki who presided over a short session, asked the Senators to dress appropriately for a valedictory session in honour of the former governor of Osun State on Wednesday .

After plenary was adjourned, the lawmakers proceeded to the condolence register placed at the entrance of the Senate chamber to register their feelings and last moments with their dead colleague.

Painful!! The man behind Southwest integration, governance is dead!

The Director General of the Development
Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN,
Commission, of South-west states, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Lagos, Ondo and Osun States, Dr. Dipo Famakinwa, is dead.

Dipo was responsible for designing and
implementing the blueprint for better
integration and governance of the six south-
western states

According to Premium Times, multiple
sources close to Mr. Famakinwa confirmed
his death on Friday morning.

Mr. Famakinwa’s organisation was
responsible for designing and implementing
the blueprint for better integration and governance of the South-west States.