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DAYO ADENEYE PRESENTS N715 MILLION BUDGET FOR 2016

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As part of the effort to improve on its service delivery in disseminating accurate and timely information to the teeming populace, the Ogun State Ministry of Information and Strategy has presented to the House of Assembly a sum of #715,000,000.00 million as its total expenditure for year 2016 fiscal year.
The budget has it recurrent expenditure as #490 million and its capital expenditure as #225 million.
The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Adedayo Adeneye, in his presentation, said measures have also been put in place to increase the 2015 Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) which was #4,118,000.00 to #17.1 million by 2016.
Adeneye said part of the measures put in place to increase its IGR in 2016 is to commercialize its public address equipment, video services for public and official purposes, and the Ministry’s public enlightenment programmes on both Radio and Television whereby companies and individuals would be motivated to sponsor and advertise on the four programmes produced by the Ministry.
The Commissioner added that the Ministry also intends to have a short message service code on reputable network provider where citizens will log their complaints or information to Government through SMS at lower rate.
“The best way to compliment efforts of Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s rebuilding mission is to ensure increment in the State IGR so as to deliver more dividends of democracy to the citizens of the State. Part of our effort is to provide content for the Ogun State website through collation of activities of MDAs in the State, collection of stipends for the publication of social dairy, adverts and change of name in Ogun Update. Commercialize the Ministry’s public address equipment and video services for public and official purposes, commercialization of the Ministry’s public enlightenment programmes on both Radio and Television whereby companies and individuals would be motivated to sponsor and advertise on the four programmes produced by the department”.
He,however, assured the members of the Committee of developmental strides in the Ministry and other agencies under it by 2016.
Earlier, the General Manager, Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC), Engr. Tunde Awolana, presented a total expenditure of #513 million to the House Committee on Information, while his OGTV counterpart, Engr. Dele Bolujoko, also presented #1.381 billion as the 2016 total expenditure while the General Manager, Ogun State Signage and Advertising Agency (OGSAA) presented a total expenditure of #538 million. Also,the General Manager, Ogun State Printing Corporation, Mrs. Oyinkansola Cole, presented a total expenditure of #260,687,000.00 and Bureau of Information Technology, earlier , proposed #185 million as its 2016 total expenditure, but was asked to reduce it to #50 million due to little activities of the Bureau.
Also speaking, the Chairman House Committee on Information, Hon. Oludare Kadiri, commended the Ministry for its efforts at projecting the activities and programmes of the Government, urging the Ministry and other Agencies under it to work harmoniously in order to achieve the set goals and objectives of the Government.

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Oando Clean Energy, Cross River State, Sign MoU on Renewable Energy Infrastructure

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Oando Clean Energy (OCEL),  the renewable energy business subsidiary of Oando Energy Resources and the Cross River State Government have  signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the rollout of electric vehicles for mass transportation within the state at the ongoing 28th edition Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The move in setting up an electric vehicle (EV) assembly plant, is expected to create jobs for local indigenes as well as build a 100MW wind plant for power generation.

Representing the Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu at the MoU signing was the state’s Commissioner for Special Duties, Oden Ewa, saying the landmark agreement marked a significant step forward in the state’s journey toward a cleaner and more sustainable future. He said: “The MoU paves the way for the transitioning of our mass transit system to cleaner and less expensive fuels while also allowing for the use of our natural resource, wind, to provide electrification for our people.

“I commend Oando Clean Energy for their innovative solutions that address the impact of climate change in Nigeria and her citizens.”

According to Oando , it said,  as  a company, it has committed to ensuring that this journey to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future is as seamless and as easy as possible.

“This is by putting our confidence in, not only the technology but the partnership and ensuring that the Cross River State government and her people reap the benefits of generating power from sustainable sources”. The statement read.

Oando’s Clean Energy’s scope spans the entire 35 states of the federation and the federal capital, promising to create a cleaner, more viable energy ecosystem for Nigeria and the  people of Cross River.

In attendance at the side event were amongst others, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Abubakar Momoh;  Minister of the Environment, Abbas Balarabe;  Minister of State for Environment, Dr. Kunle Salako; Commissioner for Special Duties, Cross River State, Mr. Oden Ewa, among others.

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House Of Representatives Issues Warrant Of Arrest On Central Bank Governor, Cardoso, Accountant-General, 17 Others

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The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions has asked for a warrant of arrest to be issued on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Oluwatoyin Madein, and 17 others over refusal to appear before it to answer questions on their operations.

It was gathered that the issuance of the arrest warrant was sequel to the adoption of a motion moved by Fred Agbedi, representing Ekeremo/Sagbama Federal Constituency of Bayelsa State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the committee’s hearing on Tuesday.

Agbedi, while moving the motion, said that the arrest warrant had become imperative following the attitude of the invitees, adding that the parliament worked with time and the CEOs had been invited four times but failed to respond to the invitations.

Agbedi said that the CBN Governor, the AGF and the rest of the invitees should be brought to appear before the committee by the Inspector General of Police through a warrant of arrest after due diligence by the House Speaker, Rep Tajudeen Abbas.

The Chairman of the Committee, Micheal Irom (APC-Cross River), in his ruling said that the Inspector-General of Police should ensure the invitees were brought before the committee on December 14.
It was gathered that the petitioner, Fidelis Uzowanem, had earlier said that the petition was anchored on the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) 2021 report.

Irom said, “We took up the challenge to examine the report and discovered that what NEITI put together as a report is only consolidation of fraud that has been going on in the oil and gas industry.

“It dates back to 2016 because we have been following and we put up a petition to this committee to examine what has happened.

“The 2024 budget of 27.5 trillion that has been proposed can be confidently funded from the recoverable amount that we identified in the NEITI report.

“It is basically a concealment of illegal transactions that took place in NNPCL; they have been in a sink with some oil companies where some companies that did not produce crude were paid cash core, an amount paid for crude oil production.”

 

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FCTA uncovers illegal oil refining warehouse in Abuja

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In continuation of the city cleaning exercise, Authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) with operatives of security personnel have uncovered an illegal oil refining warehouse in Mabushi, opposite Mobile filling station on Ahmadu Bello way in Abuja.

 

The Director, Department of Development Control, FCTA, Mukhtar Galadima after the operation on Thursday, said the illegal refining site was discovered during the continuation of the city cleaning exercise.

 

According to him, about three to four plot of lands designated for commercial purposes have been converted to an area where oil and diesel are being adulterated and circulated to other parts of the city.

 

Galadima explained that the city sanitation task force will look into the provision of the law and make necessary recommendations to the FCT Administration for further actions on the plots used for the activity.

 

He said there was no arrest but the items used in carrying out the illegal refining have been impounded.

 

Galadima said, “During the continuation of our city sanitation exercise in Mabushi opposite Mobile filling station on Ahmadu way, we discovered an illegal refining site where oil and diesel are being adulterated, we have done the needful by moving the items to Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.

 

“From what we have seen so far, about three or four pilot of lands designated for commercial purposes have been converted to unapproved activities, which we believe the owners are fully aware, there will be consequences.

 

“We are going to look at the provision of the law and make necessary recommendations to the FCT Administration”

 

He said the administration will continue to go tough on activities being carried out without government approval,  especially revocation of the titles.

 

Collaborating, Head, operations FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Service (DRTS), Deborah Osho said the city management team during the exercise also discovered that most of the areas in the Nation’s capital have been converted to illegal car mart and motor parks.

 

She disclosed that fifteen vehicles have so far been impounded since the operation commenced about two days.

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