2 017 budget: Senate slams Fashola Author: Nomso Obiajuru - The Senate has justified its decision to cut the budget of some major projects of the federal government in the 2017 Appropriation Act - The senators say projects like the Second Niger Bridge and Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were dropped from the budget because a counterpart funding arrangement for their construction had previously been entered with the private sector - The legislators attack Buhari's minister of works, housing and power, Babatunde Fashola The Senate has warned Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, to stop spreading wrong information and half-truth about the 2017 budget as the legislators worked to ensure equity across the country on all new and outstanding projects. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesperson of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, on Friday, June 23, According to the Senate, Fashola did not give members of the public full details about the L...
MAPC BoT member drowns in Abuja flood OLUBODE OLUSESAN 16 JUNE 2017 A member of the Board of Trustees of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Olisaemeka Akamukalem, has drowned in a flood in Abuja. Akamukalem, who hailed from Delta State, died on Tuesday in Gwarinpa, Abuja, after a torrential downpour swept away his car. He was aged 57. His remains had been recovered and deposited at the Kubwa General Hospital morgue. The APC expressed shock over Akamukalem’s death, describing him as one of its respected leaders. The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Thursday, in Abuja, recalled that the late Akamukalem was a former National Chairman of the Democratic Peoples Party that merged with other parties to form the APC in 2013. He had also served as the first Assistant National Secretary of the All Peoples Party. The statement said, “He was the Director-General of the Rabiu Kwankwaso Presidential Campaign and, thereafter, served as ...
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