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Lutchmedial: UNC to look into hiring of Mrs Al-Rawi Opposition Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial. - PHOTO COURTESY OFFICE OF THE PARLIAMENT UNC senator Jayanti Lutchmedial said the issue of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s wife’s law firm being hired by the Office of the Prime Minister was exactly why there was a need for greater oversight in the expenditure of public monies. Lutchmedial addressed the matter in a phone interview with Newsday on Monday. Newsday reported the law firm of Al-Rawi, Ha...

Spread the love (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged politician and media owner, Raymond Dokpesi and his firm, Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited, of the charges of money laundering breach of Procurement Act in relation to disbursement of the N2.1billion meant for arms purchase while Col Sambo Dasuki was the National Security Adviser (NSA) in 2014. In two unanimous judgments on Thursday, a three- man panel of Court of Appeal upholds the two appeals by Dokp...

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja With the insecurity woes in the country showing no sign of abating, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, has admitted that the country was in crisis. Attahiru who was represented by the Commandant of Army War College, Major-Gen. Charles Ofoche, stated this yesterday when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating procurement of arms and ammunition used in prosecuting the war against insurgents and other security ...

JCAR and you: How a rule becomes a law in Illinois By Roger Eddy Beginning on Jan. 1, 1978, an important process became law that very few people know about and even fewer people understand. But the Illinois Administrative Procurement Act affects your everyday life in a very real way, especially lately. It subjects you to rules written by unelected officials that eventually are acted upon by a small group of elected officials called the Joint Committee on Administrative rules, or JCAR. It’s ...

Speaking after submissions by the BPP, the chairman of the committee, Nasir Ali Ahmed, said the acting Director-General of the institute, Fabian Okonkwo, was culpable in the violation of the Public Procurement Act 2007 by arbitrarily cancelling and awarding contracts without recourse to BPP and the laws. “We’ll use you as an example. I don’t think any other DG has been punished before. I can assure you that every other penalty that is in the Procurement Act, you’ll face it. “You can�...

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 Febraury 2021: Editors of the US based Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman, have today published more damning revelations about Sierra Leone government’s Chief Minister’s alleged financial impropriety. According to this latest story, Chief Minister Professor David Francis’ office accounts, show over Le10 Billion in irregular cash withdrawals. “We calculated all cash withdrawals drawn out of the Chief Minister’s Accou...

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Opposition intends to file a Motion of No Confidence against Energy Minister Franklin Khan, as well as bring forward a Private Members Bill to repeal changes made to procurement legislation. Speaking at a UNC virtual meeting last night, Persad-Bissessar said Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee intends to file a Motion of No Confidence against Energy Minister Franklin Khan when Parliament convenes on Friday. Further, she said she intends to file a Bill to r...

lawfully exercising one of these functions, 22 the scope of his power to issue written directives is exceedingly broad. In short, he may issue or execute whatever written directives, orders, guidelines (such as prosecutorial guidelines or nondiscriminatory enforcement policies), communiqués, dispatches, or other instructions he deems appropriate. The President also may issue directives in the exercise of his statutorily delegated authority, unless Congress has specified in law that the statuto...

This followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Henry Nwauba at the plenary on Wednesday. Presenting the motion, Nwauba said that some serious management problems has emerged consequent to the suspension of the Director-General/CEO and Chairman, PRODA Governing Board, Comrade Onjeh Daniel. He recalled that the Federal Government suspended Daniel through the Minister, Science and Technology in a letter dated 17″ November 2020, ref No. – FMST/PARA/110/S.1/111/T. According to ...

A. OVERVIEW President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Finance Act 2020 into law on December 31, 2020. The new legislation followed hot on the heels of the Finance Act 2019 1 which amended several tax statutes. The Finance Act 2020 was enacted in furtherance of the Federal Governments progressive reform of the business climate in Nigeria, and the need to constantly restructure the tax system to align and conform same with international best practices, and make it respond effectively to the changing ...