The House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted the 2017 to 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, and Fiscal Strategy Paper, FSP, with exchange rate fixed at N350 to a dollar.
A bill seeking to make it mandatory for a president to nominate ministers for confirmation by the Senate within 30 days of being sworn in has passed second reading on Thursdays at the House of Representatives.
Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Sule Kazaure, has been summoned by members of the House of Representatives to explain the circumstances that led to the death of a corps member at the Kano State NYSC orientation camp.
The Senate has approved the sum of N213 billion to augment the shortfalls in the 2016 budget for the funding of critical Recurrent and Capital items of the budget.
The Senate has approved the establishment of the Nigerian Peace Corps, NPC, a move that will increase government recurrent expenditure if it gets presidential assent.
The current economic recession in the country notwithstanding, the House of Representatives has commenced the disbursement of brand new vehicles to all its 360 members.
