The meeting was held as criticism of the President’s handling of the crises continues to grow from several quarters, even as queues continued to increase at the few filling stations selling the product across the country.
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Opeoluwani Akintayo 13 July 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos – Electricity distribution companies, also known as Discos, have expressed support for the call…
“When we were going on Easter recess, members of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, including that of the House, did not go on recess. They stayed back because that was the arrangement so that by the time we returned on April 25, that was Tuesday, they should lay the report of the budget.”
“It is a sector that seems to have defiled recession, according to the bureau of statistics, its growing while other sectors may be experiencing challenges; that is not to say that we have reached Eldorado. But, it is a journey and we are beginning to see concrete development and the President as you know also approved an intervention fund for this sector, the first of its kind in the history of the mining sector,” he said.
22 February 2017, Lagos – The Federal Government is currently working towards streamlining the number of agencies operating in the nation’s…
“Council members generally expressed concern over the current situation of the exchange rate and called for an urgent review of the forex policy, especially the gap between inter-bank’s and the parallel market’s rates.”
“Suffice it to inform that the State House electricity bill for 2016 alone as forwarded by Abuja Electricity Distribution Company for State House Abuja was N252 million, with another outstanding liability of over N300 million for State House, Lagos facilities. Clearly, the provision in the 2016 Budget could not accommodate this.”
According to him, we need to sit down and work out how to make necessary adjustments.
“It can’t continue this way, the exchange rate is high, cost of things in the market have gone high but only the workers’ salaries remain the same.”
“Even in the face of several challenges and the fear that this project was impossible, the President has kept giving me proper encouragement and I am happy to acknowledge that,” the governor had said.
16 February 2016, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday admitted that Nigeria is currently disorganised as a result of drop…
