Today's Headlines: Keyamo: Why Akpabio Visited Villa – Senate Spokesman; Akpabio Names Three Oyo Senators Committees Chairman
Keyamo: Why Akpabio Visited Villa – Senate Spokesman
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Senate Spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, says Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, did not visit the Presidential Villa on Monday because of the uproar generated in the red chamber over the screening of a ministerial nominee, Festus Keyamo.
Adaramodu, a lawmaker representing Ekiti South Senatorial District in the 10th National Assembly (NASS), made this known on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday.
According to him, the Senate already planned a visit to the Villa before the altercation on the floor over Keyamo’s nomination.
Adaramodu said Akpabio’s visit to the Villa on Monday was on the coup in Niger Republic.
He said, “The President (Akpabio) stood up yesterday (Monday) to go to the Villa, not because of Festus Keyamo; not because of any screening, (and) not because the Villa invited the Senate President to come and ask questions or to come and do one favours or the other. No; there had been a prior invitation of the Senate President and the leadership of the Senate to the Villa based on the security issues, especially the coup in Niger Republic.”
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Akpabio names three Oyo senators committee chairmen
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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has announced the three senators from Oyo State as chairmen of different standing committees in the 10th Assembly.
The three senators are Sharafadeen Alli, Yunus Akintunde, and Abdulfatai Buhari.
DAILY POST reports that the duo of Alli and Akintunde are first-term lawmakers, while Buhari is a third-term lawmaker in the Senate.
FG-Siemens 11,000MW project for completion 2030
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The completion date of the 11,000 megawatts power project signed between the Federal Government and German-based Siemens has been shifted to 2030, according to reports.
In 2019, the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Alex Okoh, on behalf of the Federal Government, had signed the agreement, while the Global Chief Executive Officer of Siemens, Joe Kaeser, signed on behalf of Siemens, to achieve 7,000 megawatts of reliable power supply by 2021, and 11,000 megawatts by 2023.
However, a report by Bloomberg on Monday quoting the head of business development and government relations at Siemens Energy, Oladayo Orolu, said the company expected to complete the project by 2030 “due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”
The three-phase project was set back by delays in starting the first phase, he said.
“When we conceptualised this project in 2018, our plan was within two years we should be done with phase one, but then COVID-19 happened, disrupting supply chains, which meant getting raw materials took longer than before,” Orolu said.
Gunmen Abduct Nasarawa Monarch, Wife
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Gunmen on Sunday night abducted the Chief of Gurku community in Karu LGA of Nasarawa State, Jibril Mamman Waziri, and his wife, Hajiya Sa’adatu Waziri.
City & Crime learnt that the incident occurred around 10pm when many residents had retired to their beds.
A source said, “We are calling on the police and other security agencies to urgently intervene so that they can be freed as soon as possible.”
The state’s police spokesman, DSP Ramhan Nansel, who confirmed the incident on Monday, said, “I wish to confirm that around 10pm of August 6, 2023, a distress call was received by the Nasarawa State Police Command that the palace of the Chief of Gurku, located 10 kilometres away from Mararaba main town, in a mountainous area, was invaded by men suspected to be kidnappers.
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