Category: Legislative Report

Kunle Adelabu -Limits advances to FG as Ways and Means by the CBN A bill that seeks to provide for a single non-renewable term of six years for the Governor and the Deputy Governors of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), today, scaled second reading in the Senate. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA, the Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, led the debate on the bill for an Act to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Act 2007.…

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Kunle Adelabu The representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, has reinstated his commitment to the constitutional provision to grant states of the federation permission to establish their own police. He reiterated his stance towards the establishment of state police at a plenary session of the National Assembly, as revealed in a statement on THE IMPACT WhatsApp platform late Friday. Benson, the Chairman, House Committee on Defense, stated that efforts are being geared towards true federal structure by decentralizing the control of electricity generation and transmission through…

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Kunle Adelabu A total of 150 bags of 50kg rice have been shared to residents of Kosofe, Agboyi-Ketu, and Ikosi-Isheri whose communities were ravaged by flood in 2023. The food items were in fulfilment of the promise by the donor, Senator Tokunbo Abiru, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, to provide succor for the communities affected by flood last year. Mr. Enitan Olukotun, Media Aide to Senator Abiru, revealed in a statement last night, that Otunba Saheed Oladapo Ibikunle, PhD, on behalf of the Senator and in the presence…

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Wale Jagun & Mariam Akinloye -Solar distribution meant to reduce heat – DG Chairman, House Defense Committee, Rep. Babajimi Benson, has assured Nigerians that the hard times currently being faced in the country, due to the economic downturn will soon be a thing of the past under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. He said that the President and his team are working round the clock to ensure that the outcry by Nigerians, are addressed. Benson, who is representing the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, spoke during the week at the distribution…

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-Invites commissioners, top officials for briefing The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday asked Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to urgently summon a stakeholders’ meeting to address the current hardship experienced by residents of the state in order for the government to adopt sustainable solutions beyond palliatives. The lawmakers noted that though the current economic situation pervades the entire Nigeria and is mostly global in outlook, Lagos State and its local governments must do more to ameliorate the suffering in the land. The House also advised leaders and statesmen to join…

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Kunle Adelabu -As Hon. Aro Abiodun raises alarm The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday, assured residents of Ikorodu Constituency II, especially those in Igbogbo/Bayeku and Ijede Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), that necessary stakeholders will be contacted for the purpose of stemming the kidnaping cases in their areas. Igbe communities within the Igbogbo/Bayeku and Ijede Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), two of the three LCDAs under the Ikorodu Constituency II that is being represented by Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), in the Lagos State House of Assembly, have…

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Jare Olukotun -Senator Abiru’s bill on CBN Act Amendment passes first reading The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Olayemi Cardoso. The Committee said Cardoso must appear before it on Tuesday next week to address it on the state of the economy and the free fall of the naira at the foreign exchange market. Senate Committee’s summon came a day after a bill for the amendment of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Act, sponsored…

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Kunle Adelabu The Nigerian Immigration (NIS) Office (Passport Office) sited in lgbogbo, and commissioned by the NIS Comptroller – General, Mrs Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju, last December, has continued to attract developments as construction of roads linking the facility, has commenced. Rep. Babajimi Adegoke Benson, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defense who facilitated the NIS office in Igbogbo, Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, is also facilitating the construction of the roads to compliment the passport office. The construction of the roads –…

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