DESOPDEC Budget 2016: Itsekiri re-echoes rejection
ITSEKIRI leaders, through the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILOT, yesterday raised more justifications for their call on Delta State House of Assembly not to pass the 2016 budget of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, over allegations of “official corruption.”
Governors push for new revenue sharing formula
Governors of the 36 states of the federation, yesterday, pushed for a new fiscal restructuring plan due to the present economic realities in their states, which had made it impossible for them to pay workers’ salaries. This is despite bailout funds advanced by the federal government to the states a few months ago.
2 killed, five houses razed in Delta inter-communal clash
OBIARUKU—No fewer than two person have been killed and over five houses razed in an inter-communal clash between youths of Umuezegoli community of Ebedei clan and Akoku clan, both in Ukwani Local Government Area, Delta State.
WASPAN to invest in educating mobile subscribers, partner NCC to arrest unsolicited SMS
Apparently targeting a healthy public perception of Value Added Services, VAS, Wireless Application Services Providers of Nigeria, WASPAN, has concluded plans to invest more in educating mobile subscribers and help them to be better informed and become savvier in the use of their mobile phones.
The National Grazing Bill (2)
PART VII called the Miscellaneous Provisions restricts any legal action or suit against the commission. A written notice shall first be given to the commission of the intention to sue it or any member of the council; “No execution or attachment of process shall be issued against the commission without the consent of the Attorney General of the Federation”.
‘VAS segment, overdue for regulation’
LAGOS—The Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Professor Umar Danbatta, has said that the Value Added Services segment, VAS, in Nigerian is overdue for regulation.
