Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State posted this analysis Nigeria's independence anniversary budgets for the past five years on his Facebook page.
Independence Anniversary expenditure for the past 5 years.
2011 - N13 billion,
2012 - N15 billion,
2013 - N14 billion,
2014 - N22 billion.
2015 - N70 MILLION
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC has said that it has started refunding over billed customers in the Federal Capital Territory in compliance with Federal Government's directive.
The Managing Director of AEDC, Mr Neil Croucher, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
However, he did not say how much or how many customers have been refunded.
NAN recalls that the Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, recently told the Senate that the commission ordered the refund after series of complaints from AEDC customers.
Croucher pointed out that the over billing issue was a legacy problem which the company inherited and had been battling with ever since.
His words ;
“On the issue of bills not reflecting the amount of electricity consumed or customers pay and is not reflecting, this is one of the problems we inherited with the old billing system.
“That is why we have spent a lot of time and money in installing a new billing system that is centralised. It will soon be a thing of the past.
“But if any customer has a complaint he can come to us. We have teams in the field that will go and investigate.
“If in that process we identify that we have been over-charging, we will correct it."
NAN
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) is poised to publish the names of former Ministers, Governors and members of the National and State Assemblies who are illegally in possession of official and diplomatic passports if they fail to return the documents soon.
The Comptroller General of the service, Mr Martin Abeshi made the threat in Abuja on Wednesday.
His words ;
“I am advising that those who have not returned these facilities [diplomatic and official passports] should bring them because very soon, I will publish the names of those who collected official and diplomatic passports.
“I am not going to do it now; I want to respect them because they were once statesmen in this country, but I am advising that they should bring those passports in their possession to the Immigration office now. "
The Immigration boss directed that the passports could also be returned to state comptrollers of the service across the country. He noted that over 200 diplomatic passports have been returned by illegal holders since the presidential directive was given on September 7, 2015.
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki will in the tradition of the Senate, open and read President Buhari’s ministerial list to his colleagues on Tuesday in the course of the day's Plenary.
Yusuph Olaniyonu, spokesman for the Senate President gave the hint after the list was delivered in a sealed envelope on Wednesday evening by President Buhari’s aides.
Nine prisoners serving various jail terms in Kaduna State on Thursday October 1st breathed the air of freedom courtesy of Gov Nasir El-Rufai in the spirit of the nation's 55th independence anniversary celebrations.
Also, five prisoners awaiting execution had their death sentences commuted to various prison terms.
Gov El-Rufai disclosed this at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna during activities marking Nigeria's 55th independence anniversary.
Come Friday October 2, 2015, comedian Julius 'de genius' Agwu will be cracking ribs at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
The event which will mark the 10th anniversary of Crack Ya Ribs will feature a galaxy of entertainers including Okey Bakassi, Osama, Dan D Humorous, Monkals, Triple White, Pencil, Romeo, MC Jay, Mimicko and Mavin Records artistes, Korede Bello and Dija.
In the words of Julius Agwu,
“Just the way we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Crack Ya Ribs in London a few weeks back,we will be storming Abuja with great talents across Nigeria to stage an outstanding ten years’ anniversary of Crack Ya Ribs in the city. It is actually a show to look forward to because all expectations will be met and surpassed. Comedy and music will also be in great supply. In the same vein, there will be other side attractions which I will prefer to keep under wraps for now."
Avian Influenza, otherwise known as bird flu has hit 20 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Arc Sonny Echono said this on Wednesday during a meeting with stakeholders in Abuja.
He said ;
“The resurgence of Avian Influenza as at today has spread to 85 local government areas (LGAs) in 20 states and the FCT, affecting 491 farms and resulting in the depopulation of 1,597,191 birds.
“Since the 1st confirmed outbreak on the 5th of January, 2015 in a commercial farm in Kano and a live bird market (LBM) in Lagos State, we have put in place proactive strategies aimed at rapidly containing the spread of the poultry disease; these strategies include but are not limited to depopulation and decontamination of affected farm birds, movement restriction of poultry products, enforcement of biosecurity farms and payments of compensation.
“The initial strategies put in place had succeeded and resulted in non-reporting of outbreaks nationwide for about eight weeks (May and June); the disease thereafter has continued to spread mainly in the southern state s and the latest outbreaks were reported between July and September 2015 in Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Enugu, Abia, Rivers and the FCT.”
According to Echono, claims for compensation by poultry farmers have already exceeded one billion naira. He said that so far, N380 million has been paid to 138 farmers, while N263 million is currently being disbursed to 103 farmers.
He blamed the current outbreak of Avian Influenza on "non-compliance with biosecurity in farms, limited awareness creation on the disease among poultry farmers, disregard for public policy on sitting of poultry farms and other enforcement protocols which are expected to be implemented by the State Veterinary Services."
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