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I thought it was a joke when it was reported on a radio station today. Ambode should know better na. This is the bane of our society from time. Doing substandard things wont help. same way they keep fixing BRT routes every 6 months. shameful

Even if he is the best? Thats why we will never develop as a nation

I don't like the Nigerian Senate, but thumbs up to them for this

I don't like the Nigerian Senate, but thumbs up to them for this

Again? But they have been technically defeated now... Buhari and Lai sef

Lolz... hopefully he will accept National Loser

Should the priest stop them so they can beat him and say he is an accomplice

He disgraced his generation for money. Ibo ehn

Ha... thought they have technically defeated this guys

We all know

APC is not even good for a community talk more a country. Its getting worse by the minute

Useless buncs

APC are so confused, so free Akara is now the bait for Vote? Wonders of Come Raid Oshio.

This thing go cause tribal war. Watch out!

FG spent N5.58 Trillion in 13 months! and no infrastructure to show 4 it. How can #ChangeBeginsWithMe yet our govt are this wasteful?

See the report below

Good news... Ole

Nairaland Mods have suddenly gone... I don't even know what to say.

National looters assembly

Thank God.

How many of such has been taken to Enugu and Benue to fish out those herdsmen

Dapsynzeal:
Nigeria my country where we celebrate thieves and castigate the good ones

abi o.
We castigate the good and praise the bad. Yet we want change

They should just go back to their recess. We had peace without them. Bunch of clowns

Living Legend

He should better come back to fix the mess he put the country into with his policies

Nairaland brings everything and anything to frontpage nowdays

Nairaland now brings everything and anything to front page

The house of representatives on Wednesday went into a rowdy session after Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, recognised Emmanuel Oker-Jev, chairman rules and business, to move a motion just as another member Aliyu Madaki was putting up his hand to be recognised.

The speaker recognised Oker-Jev, who moved his motion in the midst of heavy noise on the collective breach of members due to the budget padding allegations raised by Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of the committee on appropriations.

He said the house had come under heavy attack by the allegations.

At that point, Jibrin was observed to be walking around the chamber under the close watch of the sergeant-at-arms.

The motion was however passed and referred to the ethics and privileges committee, which would look into the matter.

At this point, members began shouting “Dogara, Dogara.”

When Madaki was recognised to speak, he was barely heard, as scores of lawmakers were screaming all at the same time.


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You will have it back soon.

Mtcheeeewwwwww

You people are the true definition of joblessness

God will save us from this legislooters someday

The 469 members of the 8th national assembly have at least 2,570 aides, an investigation by NAN has revealed.

Out of the number, 700 aides work for lawmakers in the senate, while the remaining 1,870 are engaged by house of representatives members.

In addition to the regular aides, the principal officers of both chambers have special assistants, senior special assistants and special advisers of varying numbers.

This category of aides, it was learnt, have a monthly salary of a minimum of N950,000 but was reduced to N400, 000 by the current management of the assembly. All the aides are paid from the coffers of the assembly.

As provided in the national assembly act, each lawmaker, excluding principal officers, is entitled to five aides – one senior legislative aide, two legislative aides, a personal assistant and a secretary.

It was discovered that in the provision, president of the senate is entitled to 45 aides, his deputy 30 and 20 each for principal officers.

Similarly, speaker of the house of representatives has 35 assistants, deputy speaker 15 and 10 each for the six principal officers.

The number of aides to each legislator, it was gathered, includes those in their constituency offices.

The monthly emolument of the aides, which ranged from N150,000 to N250,000, sources close to the assembly said, has been reduced to between N75,000 and N180,000 by the current leadership of the assembly.

However, NAN gathered that some of the lawmakers, especially principal officers, have more than the statutorily approved number of aides in their employ, who also draw their salary from the assembly’s funds.

Some lawmakers, however, pay the aides from their own resources.

It was also revealed that many legislators draw the emolument of their aides from the assembly’s funds but pay them fractions. Some of the lawmakers employed only one or two aides but are collecting the full salary for the five they are entitled to.

This act was discovered to be perpetrated more by the members through their constituency offices, which they are mandatorily expected to have in their areas but they deliberately don’t.

They submit names of non-existent staff in the constituency office to the national assembly service commission and collect their entitlements directly.

An aide to a senator from the south-west, working with him in Abuja, told NAN that he had never heard of other aides or office that his boss has in his constituency.

“All of us, his aides are here; it is only when he is travelling to the state that he goes with the senior legislative aide and his younger brother,” he said.

“The brother works with him; he is not documented but he is in charge whenever oga (the boss) is not around. But, all of us are always in the office in Abuja; I do not know of assistant or aide he has at the constituency level or in the state.”

The source declined to disclose his salary, allowance and pay point, but said the emolument depended on the grade of the aide.

He, however, disclosed that the least paid aide earned N120,000 from the assembly commission.

The lawmakers contacted on the issue declined to comment, with some of them saying they were complying with the rules.

The clerk of the national assembly and officials in his office also rebuffed enquiries on the issues.

Reacting to the findings by NAN, some stakeholders called for reduction in the number of aides working for federal lawmakers and a slash in their pay.

They told NAN that the reduction is necessary in view of the current economic challenges facing the country.


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