Senate Flays FG's Poor Implementation of N9 Trillion Capital Components in Budgets To investigate importation of hazardous petroleum products Finance minister explains delay in electric, CNG vehicles’ take off Says forensic audit on ways & means ongoing Sunday Aborisade in Abuja The senate, yesterday, challenged the
federal government to intensify efforts in funding the capital components of the three national budgets running
concurrently. In addition, the red chamber, yesterday, constituted an ad-hoc
committee to investigate the continued importation of hazardous petroleum products and dumping of substandard
diesel in the country Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon
Adeola, raised the issue of capital Continued on page 14
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambas-
sador Yusuf Tuggar, has called on members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take collective actions in addressing
the root cause of insecurity in the sub-region. Tuggar decried the fact that in the first five months of 2024, there
had been over 800 terrorist attacks, which had claimed over 7,000 lives in the West Africa subregion. The minister was however quick
to add that despite the various challenges, the sub-region has made significant progress, including the area of democracy and governance.
This was as the Senate, yesterday, rejected a prayer by the Senator Continued on page 14
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