PDP lawmaker Asks Judge Related To Pius Anyim To Sack Tambuwal Through The Back Doo

In a move some legal experts have described as an abuse of court process,  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), through one  Isiaq Abiodun Akinlade in the House of Representatives, has approached an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to sack Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from his position and membership of the House of Representative

2014 Budget: Dashed Hopes and Unfulfilled Expectations

BY OMONIYI SALAUDEEN

Countdown to The New Year 2015 be­gins this Monday. By implication, the current fiscal year has just only 31 more days left to complete its full circle. And as usual, the year’s budget which was tagged “Bud­get for Job Creation and Inclusive Growth” came with a lot of hopes and expectations among the citizens, as it promised to address some of the funda­mental problems affecting the quality of lives of the people. These include food self- sufficiency, adequate power supply, employ­ment generation, improved healthcare service delivery, quality and accessible edu­cation and security, among others.

For now, there is no official statement yet from the National Assembly as to the actual perfor­mance of the budget. But there are concerns among the stake­holders that the outgoing year might not have been different from the previous experience. Since the advent of the present democratic experience, imple­mentation of budget has always been a source of conflict between the executive and the legisla­ture. In 2013, the performance of the budget was put at 64 per cent as at when the 2014 budget proposal was presented to the National Assembly.

Part of the reason for poor budget implementation is the imbalance between the recurrent and capital expenditures. For ex­ample, the recurrent expenditure alone for the last fiscal year ac­counted for about 52 per cent of the total budget. From available statistics, there is no significant departure from this experience in the current year running.

Buhari Hails Oshiomole’s Achievements in Edo

 Former head of state and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major Gen­eral Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) has commended Gov­ernor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State for the monumen­tal development his admin­istration has brought to Edo State in the last six years.
General Buhari gave the commendation Saturday when he inaugurated the newly re­constructed six-lane Airport Road and the remodelled Ima­guero College, in Benin City, which has 18 blocks of 104 classrooms, a large school hall, a chapel, staff rooms, an ICT centre and other standard con­veniences.
The former head of state who was thrilled by what he saw said, “let me express my appreciation to the governor for the great work he has done in this state and also to express my delight and congratulate the people of Edo State for the massive support given to Com­rade Adams Oshiomhole.
“I am very grateful and ap­preciate your success. By set­ting the idea of infrastructural development and putting the people first in all your policies, till the end of time, the people of Edo State will never forget you, I congratulate you for your ideas and all,” he said.