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Senators Disown Oil Theft Report
The Senate has failed to consider the report of its Adhoc Committee which investigated Oil Lifting, Theft and the Impact on Petroleum Production and Oil Revenues.
Some members disowned the report presented by the chairman, Senator Akpan Bassey (YPP Akwa Ibom North East)
Recall that the Upper legislative chamber had on April 14, 2022, constituted a 13 – member adhoc committee under the chairmanship of Senator Bassey, who incidentally, is the chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) to investigate the issue
Seven months after the assignment, the committee presented its report for Senate’s consideration and adoption in plenary on Wednesday but ran into hitches when some of its members disowned the report
First to make observation that the report was not signed was the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege who presided.
He noticed that only six out of 13 members signed the report presented to him.
Omo-Agege”s observation triggered open confessions by some members of the committee who outrightly disowned the report.
Specifically, Senator Sani Musa (APC Niger East) , openly told the Senate that the six signatures attached to the report were taken from attendance list taken at the first sitting of the committee in April.
“Mr. President and Distinguished Colleagues, only three and not six members of the committee signed the report.
“As a member, I attended the first meeting along with five other senators whose signatures were attached to the report.
“After the first meeting, I was not invited for any other meeting and I did not attend any, making this report before us today, a very strange one to me,” he said.
Also disowning the report, another member of the Committee, Senator Kashim Shettima (APC Borno Central), said as a member of the committee, he was never invited for any meeting and cannot say anything on the report being presented to the Senate for consideration and approval.
Irked by the submissions, the Deputy Senate President called Senator George Sekibo as a member of the committee to give the way out of the problem.
Sekibo accordingly suggested that the report should be withdrawn for consensus among committee members between now and Monday next week for re – presentation on Tuesday in plenary.
Omo – Agege consequently put the suggestion to voice votes with majority of the Senators concurring to it.
Members of the committee as constituted in April were Senators Akpan Bassey (chairman), Yusuf A. Yusuf, Solomon Adeola, Kabiru Gaya, Mohammed Aliero, George Sekibo, Gabriel Suswam, Kashim Shettima, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, Ali Ndume, Stella Oduah, Sani Musa and Ibrahim Gobir.
THE Federal Government has approved free internet services worth N24.2 billion naira at 20 selected airports, 43 universities and six markets across the country.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami, disclosed this after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday
Pantami said that the airports were selected from the six geo-political zones.
“Certain intervention projects are going to be implemented by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerian Communications Commission of providing Internet in 20 selected airports in Nigeria and higher institutions of learning and also some markets to support micro small and medium enterprises.
“In each geopolitical zone, you have around three airports. In the South-West, we have Lagos and Ondo. For the South-East, we have Anambra and Enugu.
“For the South-South, we have Port Harcourt and Akwa Ibom. For the North-Central we have Abuja and Ilorin. In the North-West, we have Kano, Sokoto and Kebbi. For the North-East we have Yola, Maiduguri and Gombe.”
The minister said the markets and 43 institutions which include universities and polytechnics were also drawn from the six geopolitical zones, adding that it will ease e-learning in schools and also enhance the transition to a cashless economy.
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved the appointment of six new permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service
The appointments followed after a recent conducted selection process.
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF),Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, made this known in a statement by Mohammed Ahmed, Director of Communications of the Office of the HOCSF,
The appointees and their states of origin are Esuabana Asanye (Cross River), Mahmud Kambari (Borno), Richard Pheelangwah (Taraba), Lamuwa Ibrahim (Gombe), Yakubu Kofar-Mata (Kano) and Oloruntola Michael (Ogun).
The Department of State Security Service has said that the plot to Instal interim government was real
DSS noted that the plot was “by some key players” to install an interim government and stop Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as president.
A statement on Wednesday, by Peter Afunanya, the public relations officer of the secret police, said: “The Department of State Services (DSS) has identified some key players in the plot for an Interim Government in Nigeria.
“The Service considers the plot, being pursued by these entrenched interests, as not only an aberration but a mischievous way to set aside the constitution and undermine civil rule as well as plunge the country into an avoidable crisis.
“The illegality is totally unacceptable in a democracy and to the peace loving Nigerians. This is even more so that the machination is taking place after the peaceful conduct of the elections in most parts of the country.”
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