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The National Assembly, on Monday, summoned the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, and the Director-General of the Budget Office, Tanimu Yakubu, to appear before its committee on Tuesday over the ‘miserable’ budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Solid Minerals in
Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Obong Victor Attah, has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of preventing the state from distributing electricity to states in the Niger Delta region. Attah said he built a 191 megawatts power generation station while he was in office. Attah was Akwa Ibom governor from May 1999 to May 2007, the same
Obasanjo stopped me distributing electricity from Akwa Ibom after building power plant – Ex-gov, Attah
Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Obong Victor Attah, has accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo of preventing the state from distributing electricity to states in the Niger Delta region.
Attah said he built a 191 megawatts power generation station while he was in office.
Attah was Akwa Ibom governor from May 1999 to May 2007, the same time Obasanjo was Nigeria’s President.
Featuring on Channels TV’s Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, the former governor disclosed that Obasanjo ordered that the electricity generated from the Akwa Ibom power plant be added to the national grid.
According to Attah, “I decided I want to give the Akwa Ibom State power. The president said no. The Federal Government is providing power for the country. I said: ‘I want to give Akwa Ibom State power’ and then I succeeded in building that power station.
“The president came and I saw that he was happy about what I was doing. He commissioned the power station but went back to Abuja and brought a law that if you generate, you cannot distribute it.
“I used Akwa Ibom money (to build the plant) but I cannot distribute power to Akwa Ibom people? I have to put in the National Grid that is failing all the time. That was how that ended.
“So, Akwa Ibom State, like every other state doesn’t have 24-hour constant power which was my dream for Akwa Ibom. If I had it done, several other states would have followed suit.
“Interesting enough, only this morning I was reading the papers and I heard where our respected Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said we should decentralise power generation and distribution. That’s what I was trying to do but because of the faulty federal arrangement that we have I was stopped. It should not happen in a federal arrangement.”
The Kwara State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said there are no confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the state. The government, in a statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Omotola Ashaolu, on Wednesday, stated that it was raising public awareness on the highly pathogenic Avian influenza outbreak
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The Kwara State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said there are no confirmed cases of Avian Influenza in the state. The government, in a statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Omotola Ashaolu, on Wednesday, stated that it was raising public awareness on the highly pathogenic Avian influenza outbreak
A Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja has granted a bail variation to five #EndBadGovernance protesters. DAILY POST recalls that the court had earlier slammed N10M bail each on the ten members of the #endbadgovernance# protesters who were charged with attempt to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. However, Justice Emeka Nwite in his ruling, on
EndBadGovernance: Court reduces protesters’ bail from N10m to N5m
A Federal High Court Sitting in Abuja has granted a bail variation to five #EndBadGovernance protesters.
DAILY POST recalls that the court had earlier slammed N10M bail each on the ten members of the #endbadgovernance# protesters who were charged with attempt to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
However, Justice Emeka Nwite in his ruling, on Monday, reduced the amount from N10 million to N5 million each after the protesters were unable to meet their bail condition.
Counsel to the first, second and fourth defendants told the court that some of the protesters were unable to secure sureties with landed property in Abuja.
The protesters further applied for a bail variation from the court, to which the judge reduced their condition to N5 million each.
Also part of the conditions newly set by the court include one surety in like some, who must be a close relative to the defendants.
He added that the sureties specifically, must be a father or mother, or another blood relative residing within the jurisdiction if neither parent is available.
The protesters are facing six counts, including treason, conspiracy to commit a felony, inciting mutiny, and attempting to cause havoc in Nigeria.
EndBadGovernance: Court reduces protesters’ bail from N10m to N5m
