Reps Pass Finance Bill For Second Reading   The House of Representatives has passed the Finance Bill 2021 for second hearing. In what looked like a U-turn, the House considered the bill after its Committee on Finance had earlier on Monday held a public hearing on it. As...

Reps Panel Queries FIRS Over Payment of N45m On Five Guests In Five Days, N40m On Entertainment       The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee , PAC, on Thursday queried the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) over the sum of N45.6 million spent for a five...

Reps To Pass 2022 Appropriation Bill Next Wednesday     The House of Representatives has said the 2022 Appropriation Bill will be passed as scheduled next week Wednesday. The Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu, while briefing journalists on Thursday, said the...

Reps Probe Institute’s N2bn Spending, Bank Of Agric Debts     The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has resolved to investigate the utilisation of the N2bn paid to the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development for Intervention on COVID-19 from the Service Wide Vote...

Reps Summon NEPZA, OGFTZ , Allege Unremitted Taxes By Contractors       The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has resolved to invite the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority and the Oil and Gas Free Zone on the tax status of Julius Berger Plc, CETRACO, Salini...

Reps Probe Contract Duplication, MDAs’ Illegal Recruitments, Job Racketeering       The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate illegal recruitments, nominal roll padding and duplication of projects by ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government. At the plenary on Thursday, the House mandated its committees on...