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FG Directs Discos To Stop Cash Payment From Consumers

January 2, 2020 12:12 pm

The federal government had regulated electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to utilise electronic platforms for the payment of energy bills across the country.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) declared the motility is to lessen the aggregate technical, commercial and collection losses the DisCos are battling with.

The commission asked the DisCos to leverage available banking channels approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure prudence in the utilization of market funds.

While the power firms have until January 31 to migrate industrial and commercial customers to their cashless electronic platforms, they have till March 31 to move …

IPPIS: ASUU Directs Members To Boycott Enrollment

November 24, 2019 10:41 am

The crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government over the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) may not end soon as the leadership of the union Sunday directed its members to disregard the purported circular from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to enroll in the scheme from Monday.

ASUU stated that the same Accountant General of the Federation had challenged the union to develop a template that accommodates the peculiarities of academic staff and present same to it.

The Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Prof. Deji …

2019 Budget: House Directs NDDC to Suspend All Payments

November 20, 2019 3:30 am

The House of Representatives has directed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to suspend all payments with immediate effect, except for personnel cost for allegedly operating the 2019 fiscal year without a budget approved by the National Assembly.

The directive followed the adoption of a motion on the urgent need to investigate the failure and refusal of NDDC to submit its budget estimates for 2019 to the National Assembly for approval brought by Hon. Benjamin Kalu.

The House also summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to explain to the House why the commission has been spending …