The House of Representatives shut its plenary on Wednesday and dramatically adjourned sitting till Thursday (today).
The House abandoned at least five motions listed on the Order Paper, as the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, suddenly called off Wednesday’s sitting.
Dogara said he was adjourning the sitting to enable him to attend a meeting of the Council of State on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yusuff Lasun, who would have presided over proceedings in Dogara’s absence, is away to Geneva, Switzerland.
Under the rules of the House, only the Speaker or his deputy can preside over the plenary.
The PUNCH learnt there were initial speculations that the House shut its plenary in solidarity with the Senate, which also called off its sitting on Wednesday.
The Senate had called off its sitting in solidarity with its President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
He had appeared before the Code of Conduct Tribunal in continuation of his trial over alleged false declaration of assets.
However, in the case of the House, the absence of Lasun seemed to give “justifiable grounds” for shutting the plenary since Dogara had already explained that he (the Speaker) would be attending the Council of State meeting.
The Speaker had merely asked the clerk to present seven new bills to the House, preceding the sudden adjournment.
But, two important bills listed for debate on General Principles on Wednesday were abandoned.
One of the bills was titled, “A Bill for an Act to Amend the National Industrial Court Act and for other Related Matters.”
It was sponsored by a lawmaker from Delta State, Mr. Nicholas Ossai-Ossai.
The second bill was, “A Bill for an Act to Establish the Federal College of Medical Laboratory Science, Jos, and to Provide for Courses Leading to the Award of Degrees, Fellowships, Diplomas and Certificates in Medical Laboratory Science, Biomedical Science and other Related Courses and for other Matters Connected Therewith.”
It was sponsored by a member from Plateau State, Mr. Gyang Dung.
One of the five motions abandoned was on a “Call for a New Revenue Allocation Formula.”
The motion was listed against Mr. Rotimi Agunsoye.
Another one was on “Call for the Rehabilitation of Lagos-Badagry Expressway,” which had the name of Mr. Bamgbose Joseph as the sponsor.

www.punchng.com/news/reps-shut-plenary-abandon-bills-for-saraki/

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Dogara was at the emergency council of state meeting held yesterday.

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glimpse33:
All of em are LOOTERS...


IN my opinion, Nigeria generates Trillions of naira annually as budgets, and we are only 150millon population..

If you Share N1trillion Naira amongst 150million people, nothing less than N1m will get to each and everyone..

So, A way forward?

That's the concept of aggregated strength. Think of a hair brush. Your head had millions of hair follicles. Their are thousands of bristles. But with the combined judicious usage of the bristles all of your hair is neatly maintained. Naija has and makes more than enough money to sustain the populace The money just hasn't been properly spent.

glimpse33:
All of em are LOOTERS...


IN my opinion, Nigeria generates Trillions of naira annually as budgets, and we are only 150millon population..

If you Share N1trillion Naira amongst 150million people, nothing less than N1m will get to each and everyone..

So, A way forward?

Funny enuf, if annual budget generated is 1 trillion and Fed Govt decide to split it among the citizens, then we are in for pure and undiluted sufferness. If you divide 1 trillion by 150 million people, what you get is 6,666 naira each. The question you then need to ask if that's sufficient for you to sustain for a year, bearing in mind that Govt would tax you and other bills to be settled.
My brother we need a different approach to what we do with our budget.

I for one would av suggest, if Govt can only focus on 4solid agenda within their rulling dispensation and achieve atleast 90%completion of whatever sector they are giving priorities to with adequate enforcement to maintain it. Nigeria will be great.


God bless this country

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