By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja
The Security and Exchange Commission, SEC said it was considering an option that would help it reduce the cost of governance.
This was as the House of Representatives asked the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC to produce evidence of its remittances into the Federation account between 2014 and 2019.
Appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance monitoring and investigating revenue remittances by the Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs of government into the public coffers, the Director-General of SEC, Lamido Yuguda represented by the Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services, Ibrahim D. Boyi said 80 percent of the agency’s cost was spent on staff, especially the management cadre.
Views: Visits 6 By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja The Security and Exchange Commission, SEC said it was considering an option that would help it reduce the cost of governance. This was as the House of Representatives asked the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC to produce evidence of its remittances into the Federation account between 2014 and 2019. Appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance monitoring and investigating revenue remittances by the Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs of government into the public coffers, the Director-General of SEC, Lamido Yuguda represented by the Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services, Ibrahim D. Boyi said 80 percent of the agency’s cost was spent on staff, especially the management cadre.
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Reps reject Bill seeking transfer of drugs, poison management from exclusive to concurrent list
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja
A Bill seeking to transfer drugs and poison from the exclusive to concurrent list to give management powers to the States was rejected at the House of Representatives yesterday.
Titled, ”A Bill for an Act to Alter the Second Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) to Transfer Drugs and Poisons from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List; and for Related Matters (HB.1247), the bill was sponsored by Hon. Abbas Tajudeen.
He said the motion was in view of constant complaints by electricity consumers who also complain of poor services by service providers.
He said DISCOS which are responsible for the collection of payments for services rendered to consumers allow unpaid bills to accumulate and do not follow the laid-down principles and guidelines by regulatory authorities towards unpaid bills and disconnection of non-paying customers.
“Concerned that if nothing is done to curb the act of transferring debts incurred by other consumers to new consumers, the latter will continue to bear the burden of paying for the electricity they did not consume”, he said.
Udora Orizu writes that the widespread destruction and loss of lives caused by flooding in 2020, calls for all hands on deck by all tiers of government to put in place structures and adhere to warnings issued by flood monitoring agencies ahead of the next flooding season
September 12, 2020, around 8:00pm, residents of Alapere area of Lagos State, raised alarm as another flooding tragedy struck. Two yet-to-be-identified children were swept away as people battled flood after a heavy rainfall that lasted for hours and led to destruction of properties.
This is just one of the horrific, heart-wrenching experiences Nigerians go through, following havoc wreaked by floods every year. Yet nothing is done by stakeholders to ameliorate the disaster.