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Nigeria:
Auditors Certification Not Used for Subsidy Payment
This Day, 1 May 2012
The claims and counter-claims of parties in the probe of the controversial oil subsidy management in Nigeria took a new twist at the weekend when one of the auditing firms recently… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - SNG Gives Jonathan Two-Week Ultimatum
Vanguard, 30 April 2012
NOBEL laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has demanded the immediate prosecution of indicted government officials involved in the subsidy scam. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Says No Mercy for Fuel Subsidy Thieves
This Day, 26 April 2012
The Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi, has said President Goodluck Jonathan will not spare anybody indicted in the fuel subsidy… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - We Won't Spare Culprits - Jonathan
Leadership, 26 April 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday threw his weight behind the report of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee which probed the management of subsidy funds, assuring… Read more »
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Nigeria:
I Won't Spare Any Culprit - Jonathan
Vanguard, 26 April 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that those indicted in the report of the House of Representatives Committee that investigated the implementation of the subsidy regime in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Fraud - 'Jonathan Will Spare No One'
Daily Trust, 26 April 2012
President Jonathan will not spare any official indicted in the subsidy scam exposed by the House of Representatives, his parliamentary adviser Joy Emordi has said. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Scam - Akintola Williams Exonerates Self
Daily Trust, 26 April 2012
Management of Akintola Williams Deloitte Tuesday exonerates itself of any wrong doing on subsidy scam saying its responsibility was mainly to participate in the process of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy - Reps Seeks Prosecution of Akintola Williams, Deloitte
Leadership, 25 April 2012
The House of Representatives on Wednesday called for the prosecution of two accounting firms over the audit of fuel subsidy fund. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Jonathan Committed to Eliminating Corruption in Oil Sector - Emordi
Leadership, 25 April 2012
The Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Sen. Joy Emodi, has restated the determination of President Goodluck Jonathan to tackle corruption in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
House Sends Probe Report to Jonathan
This Day, 26 April 2012
The House of Representatives Wednesday resolved to send the report of its Ad Hoc Committee on Monitoring Subsidy Regime to President Goodluck Jonathan for "his information and… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - PDP Backs House's Decision to Prosecute Ali
This Day, 26 April 2012
Rising from its National Working Committee (NWC) meeting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday threw its weight behind the recommendations of the House of Representatives Ad… Read more »
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Nigeria:
More Trouble for Ahmadu Ali, As PDP Backs Reps
Vanguard, 26 April 2012
AS the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee that investigated the implementation of subsidy regime in Nigeria indicts former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - NLC Threatens to Mobilise Workers
This Day, 26 April 2012
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Federal Government against sweeping under the carpet the subsidy report released by House of Representative Committee, stating that it… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy - Reps Defy PDP, Recommend Prosecution of Ahmadu Ali
Leadership, 24 April 2012
Defying all odds, the House of Representatives on Tuesday, began the clause by clause consideration of the Subsidy Probe report which was laid on the floor of the House last… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Debate - the Issue Is How to End Fuel Importation
This Day, 25 April 2012
It is perhaps not too late in the day for the governors to raise an eyebrow over the subsidy bill. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy - House Succumbs to Marketers' Pressure
This Day, 24 April 2012
The House of Representatives Tuesday bowed to external pressures in its consideration of the fuel subsidy probe report as the lawmakers suspended the sanctions earlier recommended… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - Emodi Lauds Reps
Vanguard, 25 April 2012
Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Joy Emodi has commended the investigation undertaken by the House of Representatives into the utilization of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Reps Want Ali, Ex-PPPRA Boss Tried
Vanguard, 25 April 2012
"We are fighting against entrenched interests whose infectious greed has decimated our people. Therefore be mindful that they will fight back, and they do fight dirty". Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report Live Update - House Adjourns Till Tomorrow
Daily Trust, 24 April 2012
House adjourns till tomorrow Read more »
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Nigeria:
Why Subsidy Reinvestment is Delayed - Kolade
Leadership, 25 April 2012
The chairman of the board constituted to oversee the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Dr. Christopher Kolade, has blamed the seeming delay in implementing… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe Report - 'Why Audit Firms Were Sacked'
This Day, 25 April 2012
The Federal Ministry of Finance last night declared that last weekend's sack of two accounting and audit firms involved in the verification of fuel subsidy claims had no link with… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy - House Wants Ahmadu Ali Prosecuted
This Day, 25 April 2012
Former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmadu Ali, should face prosecution over his tenure as chairman of the board of Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe Debate - Ahmadu Ali, Others Must Go to Jail - Representatives
Leadership, 25 April 2012
Defying all odds, the House of Representatives yesterday began the clause-by-clause consideration of the subsidy probe report which was laid on the floor of the House last week. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe Will Not Affect Sure Programme, Says Kolade
Vanguard, 24 April 2012
The Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment (SURE) Committee, Dr Christopher Kolade, said on Tuesday that the on-going subsidy probe by the National Assembly would not… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Legislators Demand Prosecutions Over Fuel Subsidy Abuses
Daily Trust, 25 April 2012
The House of Representatives yesterday demanded the prosecution of the NNPC board headed by Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and the defunct PPPRA board led by former PDP… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe - House Hits Back At NNPC, Marketers
This Day, 24 April 2012
The House of Representatives has dismissed the barrage of criticisms trailing the report of its Ad Hoc Committee on Monitoring Subsidy Regime as gimmicks by those who want a… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - As Reps Begin Debate Today
Vanguard, 24 April 2012
TODAY's commencement of debate on the report of the House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the utilization of petroleum subsidies, appears to be the beginning of the final… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report Dubious, Says Oil Firm
Daily Trust, 24 April 2012
The Integrated Oil and Gas Limited (IOG) has described the House of Representatives report on the fuel subsidy regime as dubious and threatened to take legal actions. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - PPPRA Denies Paying Self N312 Billion
Daily Trust, 24 April 2012
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has picked holes in the House of Representatives Committee probe report on petroleum subsidy regime, denying that the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Group Decries Politicisation of Fuel Subsidy Probe Report
Daily Trust, 24 April 2012
A group, the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Transparency in Governance, has advised the Federal Government to be careful with the investigations it is carrying out on… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Reps - NNPC, Marketers Want to Undermine Subsidy Report
Daily Trust, 24 April 2012
The House of Representatives yesterday fired back at the NNPC and oil marketers who have been issuing denials and counter accusations against lawmakers over the petrol subsidy… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report Controversy - Reps Vs Oil Marketers
Vanguard, 24 April 2012
The House of Representatives was in a war mood yesterday as House officials and concerned stakeholders in the oil industry prepared for today's debate on the report of the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
One Subsidy Report, Multiple Options
This Day, 22 April 2012
A few day ago, the long awaited report of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Fuel Subsidy Regime was finally submitted to the House of Representatives. In this report,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - TUC Seeks Immediate Prosecution of Operators
This Day, 22 April 2012
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately commence the process of prosecuting operators indicted in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
FG Fires Akintola Williams, Adekanola for Poor Oversight
This Day, 22 April 2012
The Ministry of Finance Saturday sacked the accounting and auditing firms of Akintola Williams & Co and Adekanola & Co, for failing to exercise due care in the audit of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe - in Praise of the House
Daily Trust, 23 April 2012
J.S. Mills, that singular authority on representative government had long conceptualised the legislature as a vent for public grievances, a "useful organ of public opinion, 'the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
We'll Resist Moves to Impeach Tambuwal - MP
Daily Trust, 23 April 2012
The House of Representatives will resist any move by anybody to impeach its speaker, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, over the release of the report on oil subsidy probe, a member of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Shocking - Unregistered Companies Benefitted From Subsidy - FG Fires Akintola Williams, Adekanola
Vanguard, 22 April 2012
Some of the companies that benefited from the allocation of petroleum products and were, therefore, entitled to draw from the subsidy funds were neither registered with the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Farouk Lawan - Why Subsidy Probe Didn't Go Beyond 2009
This Day, 21 April 2012
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Monitoring Fuel Subsidy Regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan, has explained why the oil subsidy probe did not go beyond 2009. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe Report - Some Companies Were Just Incorporated to Make Money From Subsidy - Hon. Lawan Faruk
Vanguard, 22 April 2012
Some were not registered at the CAC nor with PPPRA Says we have done our job Expects executive to prosecute Read more »
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Nigeria:
N1trillion Subsidy Fraud and Duplicity - How FG Almost Swindled Locals
Vanguard, 22 April 2012
and the Magnifying Spectre of Double - jeopardy Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Probe - 17 Indicted Firms May Sue Reps for N100 Billion
Leadership, 23 April 2012
Controversy is still trailing the Hon. Farouk Lawan-chaired House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee Report on fuel subsidy, as no fewer than 17 oil companies have faulted their… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Fuel Subsidy - We'll Resist Attempt to Kill Lawan Report - TUC
Leadership, 23 April 2012
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has said that it will resist any attempt to kill the report submitted by the Farouk Lawan Committee on Fuel Subsidy Fund. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Report - Plan to Move Against Tambuwal Uncovered
This Day, 23 April 2012
Fresh facts at the weekend emerged over an alleged plan by some people believed to have been indicted by the report of the ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives, probing… Read more »
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Nigeria:
NNPC - House Report Doctored
This Day, 23 April 2012
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has alleged that the report of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Subsidy Regime "may have… Read more »