Akwa Ibom Assembly Update

  ... threatened to summons Contractors, Commissioners, Consultants to Assembly for questioning. Williams Akpabio - Information Unit (AKHA), Uyo. Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation today while discharging its Constructional right and provisions of the Standing order of the House of Assembly slams over the actions some construction companies handling State roads against the completion agenda of His Excellency Governor Udom Emmanuel's completion agenda. The committee during it's follow-up inspection after 2022 budget defense went to project site to ascertain if the funds appropriate for projects has been judiciously used.  While inspecting 8.5km Okoroete - Elile -Amadaka - Kampa  road, the Committee led by its Chairman, Rt. Hon. Uduak Odudoh and Member representing Ikot Abasi/Eastern Obolo State Constituency frowned at the action of Nigerpet Structures Limited Company, he further observed that the level of work done at the site is not c...

 PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME ADDRESSES THE 17TH COMMONWEALTH SPEAKERS AND PRESIDING OFFICERS CONFERENCE (CSPOC) OF THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION (CPA) CALLS ON AFRICAN PARLIAMENTS TO BUILD RESILIENCE AGAINST HEALTH AND OTHER THREATS TO THE CONTINENT President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has called on African parliaments to take the lead in setting an agenda of building Africa’s resilience against health, including pandemics and other threats on the continent. Already the COVID-19 pandemic has  disrupted global supply chains and overall global demand for goods and services dropped precipitously. Global trade declined by 3.5% during the first half of 2020; this was mostly due to the immediate shock from the global travel restrictions instituted by various countries in efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 according to the International Monetary Fund report of last year. While African countries were initially projected to start experiencing a decline in public debt levels due t...

President Muhammadu Buhari, Speaker Gbajabiamila, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, Others Attend 51st Conference of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. Delegates from the Commonwealth Countries in Africa gathered on Thursday, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria for the 51st Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa Region. The theme of the Conference is African Parliaments and the Challenges of Covid-19 Pandemic. While declaring the Conference open, President Muhammadu Buhari noted that COVID-19 has pushed African countries into extreme poverty, and therefore the need for stakeholders from the region to urgently take steps to start the production of COVID-19 vaccine. According to the President who was represented by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, SAN,  “without vaccination of a huge number of its people, Africa remains at continued risk of socio-economic stagnation, because continuing infections including from n...