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Payslip: Speaker Dogara LIED, How Can I Earn More Than Him? - Hon. Jibrin Reveals Shocking Details

The suspended House of Representative former Chairman of Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin has faulted the payslip made public by the Speaker of the lower legislative chamber, Yakubu Dogara, saying should that be his authentic paysl...

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara made public, his monthly payslip. The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai had challenged the Nigerian Federal lawmakers to reveal publicly their earnings. Dogara i...

REVEALED: What Saraki, Dogara DISCUSSED With Buhari Today At Aso Rock Secret Meetings

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja met separately, behind closed doors, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and the Senate President Bukola Saraki. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the preside...

Buhari, Dogara Lock Up Self In Secret Aso Rock Meeting

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is currently in a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mr. Dogara went into the president’s office at about 11:57 a.m. Sources at t...

Like The Senate, Reps Also Hits Buhari Hard, SACKS Perm Sec.Whose Tenure Elongated By The President

Just like the Senate counterpart, who denied  President Muhammadu Buhari the confirmation of some INEC State Commissioners, the House of Representatives has also reversed President Muhammadu Buhari’s extension of tenure of a retired Per...

Buhari In Closed Door Meeting With Saraki, Dogara

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara moments ago arrived the presenting Villa, Abuja to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari.  The two leaders who drove in the same car to t...

Fresh Crisis In NASS As Senators, Rep Members Gang-up Against Saraki, Dogara Over Budget SECRECY, Monumental Frauds

The lawmakers in both lower and upper chambers of the national Assembly has reportedly moved against the duo of the leaders, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and  the Speaker of the House of the Representative, Yakubu Dogara over w...

Ag President Osinbajo Rolls Out Plan To Deliver 'Change' To Nigerians In 60 Days; What He Discussed With Saraki, Dogara Revealed

Committed to achieving its objective of creating a conducive business environment in Nigeria, the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has approved a 60-day national action plan...


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Payslip: Speaker Dogara LIED, How Can I Earn More Than Him? - Hon. Jibrin Reveals Shocking Details

YAKUBU DOGARA
The suspended House of Representative former Chairman of Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin has faulted the payslip made public by the Speaker of the lower legislative chamber, Yakubu Dogara, saying should that be his authentic payslip, he (Jibrin) could have must have been overpaid or he earned higher than the Speaker.

Dogara, yesterday revealed publicly, his monthly payslip following the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai's challenged of the Nigerian Federal lawmakers to reveal publicly their earnings.

El-Rufai has done same revealing his salary and security votes to the public domain.

Dogara in a tweet @YakubDogara displayed his payslip for six months.

His tweets read:

In reaction to Dogara's action, Jibrin in a statement twitted  on his handle faulting the payslips, saying he probably might have been overpaid or earns more that the Speaker

Hi words:

"If what I saw is the authentic pay slip of Mr Speaker, it means I earn more than him from what I see in my salary statement of account"

"I have requested for my pay slip from NASS, I will publish it and my monthly salary statement of account. Perhaps I have been over paid"

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara made public, his monthly payslip.

The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai had challenged the Nigerian Federal lawmakers to reveal publicly their earnings.

Dogara in a tweet @YakubDogara displayed his payslip for six months. 

His tweets read:


Yesterday, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, accepted the challenge of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yabubu Dogara, by releasing details of his security vote, salary and allowances.

The governor also released the disbursements to the 23 Local Government Areas in the state.

El-Rufai, while releasing the details, again challenged the National Assembly members to do likewise.

The governor said the federal legislature had the most opaque budget in the country, adding that Nigerians had spent N1tn on the lawmakers without knowing the details.

The governor had, at the National Assembly retreat in Kaduna on Friday, dared members of the federal lawmakers to disclose details of their N115bn budgetary allocation, salaries and allowances.

Dogara was reported, on Saturday, to have challenged el-Rufai and other governors to publish their security votes.

In a statement on Monday by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Samuel Aruwan, el-Rufai said  he had nothing to hide.

The February pay slip of the governor indicates that his monthly  pay  was N470, 521.71 after deductions.

According to the pay slip, details of the monthly pay include basic salary, N185,308.75; hardship allowance, N370,617.50;  gross pay, N555,926.25, PAYE N85,404.51; total deduction amounts to N85,401.51 while the net pay stands at N470,521.74.

The governor noted that the amount might appear puny, but it reflected what the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission approved as the salary and allowances of governor “adjusted to reflect provision in-kind of accommodation and transportation.”

He said he accepted Dogara’s challenge as a necessary step to improve and strengthen the nation’s democracy.

El-Rufai stated that he had consistently made the budget of the state public unlike the National Assembly budget  “which is a single line item of over N100bn  that divulges zero information or details.”

On the local government funds, the governor referred the lawmakers to the online portal, www.openkaduna.com.ng, for relevant information.

“The proposed 2017 local government budgets, currently before the State Assembly, are also already online on the same website, and on www.kdsg.gov.ng. Approved State Budgets 2016-2017 can be found on http://openkaduna.com.ng/ Budget/approved-budget.

“We invite the Right Honourable Speaker to download and peruse at his pleasure,” the governor added.

As regards the Kaduna State security vote, El-Rufai stated, “As our Kaduna Comprehensive Security Architecture  outlines, the state is directing security spending on four pillars:  justice, technology, community engagement and support to security agencies. The 2017 budget details specific amounts:

“N1.5bn for the procurement and installation of CCTV cameras for monitoring and surveillance towards reducing criminal activities within the metropolis.

“N193m for procurement of geo-position interceptor and location of GSM UMTS System to check the trends and intercept/locate kidnappers’ GSM calls.

“N265m for the procurement of drones/unmanned aerial vehicles to identify locations of armed bandits in our forest reserves across the state and the establishment of a forensic laboratory to assist in determining substantial evidence in cases that otherwise proved difficult in the past.

“N2.6bn is allocated in 2017 to support the network of federal security agencies in Kaduna with communications, logistics and materiel.”

The governor insisted that the call to #OpenNASS was not a personal one, adding that “it is one which the leadership of the National Assembly owes to all Nigerians.”

He noted that it was disingenuous for the Speaker to use state government budgets as the excuse for the opacity of the National Assembly budget.

El-Rufai said in 2016, the National Assembly budget for its 469 members was bigger than the capital budget of Kaduna State, with close to 10 million inhabitants.

The Kaduna State governor added, “It is also larger than the entire budget of several Nigerian states. Indeed, over the past 10 years from 2008, the National Assembly, as an institution, has cost the country over N1tn without any detail on how this amount was allocated and spent.

“There is no state government in Nigeria with a budget nearly as opaque as that of NASS. In March 2016, this National Assembly, led by its Chairman, promised to provide a detailed breakdown of the National Assembly budget. Nigerians are waiting,” he said

The governor said he would like to reiterate his call for the NASS leadership to do the same and disclose the details of the National Assembly budget, and the salaries and allowances of its leadership to Nigerians.

Below are copies of Speaker Yakubu Dogara's 6 months payslips

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

El-Rufai. vs NASS: Speaker Dogara Releases His Monthly Payslips, See Copies

REVEALED: What Saraki, Dogara DISCUSSED With Buhari Today At Aso Rock Secret Meetings

Bukola Saraki
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja met separately, behind closed doors, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and the Senate President Bukola Saraki.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president first met with the Speaker before meeting the Senate President for about 40 minutes each.

NAN reliably gathered that the two meetings were part of efforts to address the seeming strain relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly.

NAN learnt that the meetings also discussed the progress reports on the 2017 budget proposal, Senate’s amendment of the Electoral Act and other national issues.




The two Presidential Aides for National Assembly Matters for the Senate and House of Representatives, Sen. Ita Enang and Kawu Sumaila, respectively, were earlier sighted going into the president’s office.

The Senate President and the Speaker, who both spoke to State House correspondents after the meetings, said they had “routine consultation’’ with the president.

Saraki  said the relationship between the two arms of government was cordial.

“The relationship is very cordial, you cannot examine (the National Assembly) by one or two issues.  That is the point I’m making. You cannot examine (the relationship) based on NDDC or examine it based on EFCC.

“We have other issues like the Ministerial (names) we are going to work on and the amnesty we will soon work on. We have the budget that is more important, we have INEC, we have PIB,  we have so many things and I think it is a mixture of all that that  should guide us.

“So, don’t let us overheat the polity.’’

On the six months suspension of Sen. Ali Ndume by the Senate, Saraki said he had no power to recall him as being advocated by some individuals and groups.

Also speaking on the outcome of his meeting with the president, Dogara dismissed the assertion that he was in the Villa over crisis between the executive and the legislature.

“It baffles me when people see you visit Mr President, the assumption out there is that something is going wrong. Nothing is wrong, it is just a routine consultation.

“You might look at it as crisis but I don’t look at it as crisis. You know I have always said this that as a government our value will be the problems we have solved.

“We can’t be remembered for avoiding or running away from problems. It is only when‎ we provide solution to some of the things you refer to as crises and we look at them as opportunities to begin anew that people will now remember us for putting down enduring legacies.”

On the proposed protest against the recent activities at the National Assembly, Dogara said Nigerians were free to express their views peacefully

He said: “This is a democracy we are running and we have to open the space to civil society, to everyone who feels aggrieved to be able to air his grievances.

“So, if they have grievances against the institution of the legislature we will take it.’’(NAN)

Buhari, Dogara Lock Up Self In Secret Aso Rock Meeting

Buhari and Dogara
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, is currently in a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mr. Dogara went into the president’s office at about 11:57 a.m.

Sources at the villa also said the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki will also be meeting with Mr. Buhari after Mr. Dogara.

The meetings are coming on the heels of apparent Executive/ Legislative rift following the refusal of the Nigerian Senate to consider and approve the list of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners, REC PREMIUM TIMES reports.


The Senate said it is stepping down the confirmation hearings in protest against the continued retention of Ibrahim Magu as acting chairman of the EFCC by Mr. Buhari in spite of the lawmakers’ refusal to confirm him twice.

Like The Senate, Reps Also Hits Buhari Hard, SACKS Perm Sec.Whose Tenure Elongated By The President

buhari dogara saraki
Just like the Senate counterpart, who denied  President Muhammadu Buhari the confirmation of some INEC State Commissioners, the House of Representatives has also reversed President Muhammadu Buhari’s extension of tenure of a retired Permanent Secretary.

The lawmakers also directed that Jamila Shu’ara, a Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education should cease to be a civil servant with immediate effect.

The Head of Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Winifred Oyo-Ita was directed to carry out the order and ensure that all emoluments enjoyed till date by Shu’ara since February 2016 when she was formally disengaged were returned.


The directive was outcome of hearing on the issue between the Zakari Mohammed-led Committee on Basic Education and Services and the HoCSF.

The lawmakers said the President had no power under section 171(2)(d) of the 1999 Constitution or any other existing law to extend or elongate the tenure of a Permanent Secretary whose tenure had expired by time or age, whichever comes first

The committeee, resolved that “The Head of Service should invoke relevant rules to recover all the emoluments paid to Mrs Jamila Shuara for the period of the extension.

“That the Government should ensure that Civil service rules and procedures be strictly followed in future

“That the retirement date of Dr Mrs Jamila Shuara remains 20th Feb.2016

“That Dr Mrs jamila Shuara should vacate office immediately as her retirement date remains 20th Feb. 2016.

“That the Head of Service should ensure compliance to this subject matter,and report back to the House in four weeks’ time”.

Buhari In Closed Door Meeting With Saraki, Dogara

Buhari In Closed Door Meeting With Saraki, Dogara

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara moments ago arrived the presenting Villa, Abuja to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari. 

The two leaders who drove in the same car to the Villa would be the first official quests of the President who resumed work on Monday after his return from London, United Kingdom on a medical vacation last Friday. 


They are presently meeting in the president’s office. It will be recalled that President Buhari upon arrival pleaded with Nigerians to allow him some space to get some rest. 

This may account for why the President did not entertain any visit outside his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo and some presidential aides who briefed him on the state of the nation on Monday. Details of the meeting coming later

Fresh Crisis In NASS As Senators, Rep Members Gang-up Against Saraki, Dogara Over Budget SECRECY, Monumental Frauds

saraki and dogara
The lawmakers in both lower and upper chambers of the national Assembly has reportedly moved against the duo of the leaders, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and  the Speaker of the House of the Representative, Yakubu Dogara over what they described as the secrecy of the budgetary allocation of the chambers, News Punch learned reliably

According to Premium Times, the secrecy with which the National Assembly has handled its budgets, and the lopsided manner it distributes funds for zonal intervention projects, are unsettling the lawmaking body and putting members on a collision path against the leadership,


Recalls the ousted Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, had on January 10, challenged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to make the budget open, disclosing that he and his colleagues, like most Nigerians, had no knowledge of details of the NASS budget.

Such calls have grown in the last week, and have become even more intense in the House of Representatives which for most of last year was at the centre of a devastating budget padding scandal triggered by former appropriation committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin.

Mr. Jibrin accused his former ally and speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara, of inserting fictitious projects worth billions of naira into the national budget, an allegation the speaker denied.

Presently, lawmaker-colleagues are agitating for the House budget to be made open, and for a more equitable allocation of funds for so-called intervention projects, several lawmakers told confided in our source

Legislators, many of them principal officers, and administrative offices of the National Assembly, said the budgets of the Senate and the House were known only to the Senate President, the Speaker and the Clerk to the National Assembly.

“It’s so secret that neither the Senate Leader nor the House Leader knows what is in the (budget),” said one source.

Mr. Saraki, according to Premium Times has repeatedly failed to honour his pledges to make details of the N115 billion 2016 National Assembly budget public.


With N23.347 billion in 2003, the National Assembly’s budget now stands at about N115 billion yearly, representing over 492 per cent rise in 13 years.

Until 2016, the budget had often gone as high as N150 billion a year.

In 2010, when the budget hit a shocking record sum of N154.2 billion, David Mark, Mr. Saraki’s predecessor, decided to block Nigerians from knowing details of how the National Assembly’s jumbo allocations were spent. The policy especially concealed how much members earned in allowances.

In one masterstroke of legislative brinkmanship, the National Assembly under Mr. Mark, made itself member of an exclusive club of agencies whose are deducted en-bloc (first-line charge) via statutory transfers, without disclosures.

Apart from the money allocated for the National Assembly to fund its budget on first line charge, the body gets N100 billion for “zonal intervention projects”, commonly called “constituency projects”.

The Senate, with 109 members, takes 40 per cent of that amount, while 60 per cent goes to the 360-member House.

All the constituencies take share. But the sharing is so skewed that while a principal officer’s constituency gets projects that are worth over a billion naira, an ordinary member’s constituency may get a single project valued at N50 million.

“My constituency gets N38 million (for zonal project) in 2016,” said Aliyu Madaki, Kano lawmaker, who is amongst the members calling for reforms.

A previous investigation by PREMIUM TIMES showed that the constituency projects are at best a clever way of deceiving Nigerians, and at worst an outright theft of public funds.

While benefitting lawmakers are not paid directly, they and MDAs in which zonal projects for their constituencies are domiciled, are involved in an organized network whereby the legislators nominate through “letter of introduction” contractors who get contract awards from the MDAs.
In most cases, the contractors are predictably, fronts for members.
They pay “returns” to the lawmakers, and would therefore be at liberty to deliver a shabbily executed project.
The spokesperson for Mr. Saraki, Yusuph Olaniyonu, denied Senators were agitating for reforms of how zonal intervention fund is shared.


“There is nothing like that,” he said.
The spokesperson for the House, Abdularzaq Namdas, did not deny the agitation for reform but explained the rationale for the current sharing formula.

“The issue of zonal intervention projects has been like that for long,” said Mr. Namdas. “The money is shared among the zones; that’s why it is called zonal intervention. So, if you are from a large state with many constituencies, you are likely to get low allocation.”

The spokesperson meant that a lawmaker from Kano or Lagos for instance was going to get allocation far less than what will be due to one from Bayelsa State.
But a Senator, seeking anonymity, disagreed.

“That’s the explanation but it is just about convenience. Why? A principal officer irrespective of his state or zone get huge allocation for his constituency. I mean if that explanation is valid and consistent Gbajabiamila who is from Lagos, with many constituencies should get something like N50 million, but he got about a billion naira,” the Senator argued.

Similarly, even lawmakers in Mr. Dogara’s camp are not buying Mr. Namdas argument.

“Is it wrong,” asked Adekola Adekoya, Ogun State, rhetorically, when his comment on the agitation for reform was sought.
“It is not bad. We want equitable distribution. I have studied the Speaker closely. I am persuaded that the leadership of the National Assembly, especially the Speaker, is looking at the agitations.”

Compelled by the agitations, the Speaker, last week, set up a six-man committee to review the sharing of the zonal intervention funds, the votes and proceedings for Wednesday showed.

A lawmaker said the committee was set up by the Speaker to defeat the call for an executive session to discuss the agitations.

“No to zonal representation,” said Mohammed Soba, Niger State, stressing that all members should discuss the agitation.
Whichever way, Mr. Soba expressed expectation that outcome should be known “very soon”.

“That (outcome of the agitation) should be before the end of the budget process.”
Budget Disclosure  

The leadership of the House asked members to disregard allegations made by Mr. Jibrin, a source said.

“But members believe they don’t have what to use to defend themselves before their constituents against Jibrin’s allegations because they don’t know details of their own budget,” said the source, providing basis for the call for disclosure to members.

Yet, it appears the lawmakers are not “very” concerned about the disclosure as much as the agitation for zonal intervention reform.

Several lawmakers told PREMIUM TIMES that the National Assembly leadership, particularly the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, use the budget to control lawmakers, tactically determining who gets what and when.

“Because most of us benefit from these allowances, it is really difficult to speak publicly against the leadership,” a member of the House of Representatives said.

Mr. Adekoya said he didn’t “totally” agree the budget was not known to the lawmakers.

He suggested there is possibility for the lawmakers to understand what the details of the budget are, using what they earn and use.

“If I am given N2, 000, I should be able to multiply that by 365 days. I know I use AC in my office. We have staff. There are directors and staff who are civil servants,” he said.

But the Reps’ spokesperson, Mr. Namdas, did not gloss over the secrecy around the budget. He said the leadership of the House had promised to disclose the details of the budget “not only to members but also to the public.”

A source close to Mr. Saraki said it was not as if the Senate President was not ready to disclose the NASS budget.

“But a lot of the lawmakers are not well disposed to it because they feel it will expose them to the public,” the source said.

Some insiders said many lawmakers do not care about knowing what is in their own budget, and are prepared to also stop the public from knowing, so long as their earnings keep coming.

Ag President Osinbajo Rolls Out Plan To Deliver 'Change' To Nigerians In 60 Days; What He Discussed With Saraki, Dogara Revealed

Yemi Osinbajo
Committed to achieving its objective of creating a conducive business environment in Nigeria, the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has approved a 60-day national action plan to push through short term reforms.

The Acting President, who addressed journalists after the Council’s meeting attended today by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara at the State House, said the Council will within the stipulated period focus on areas that will not only deliver tangible changes for SMEs but also help improve Nigeria’s entire business environment within the shortest possible time.


According to Prof. Osinbajo, ``we are trying to improve the business environment in three broad respects; the entry and exit of goods; entry and exit of persons into Nigeria, and then general government transparency- transparency and efficiency in government agencies, parastatals.

``The whole idea is that we are able to provide an environment for those who want to do business in Nigeria- local businesses and of course, foreign businesses.’’

The Acting President said the participation of National Assembly’s leadership at Tuesday’s meeting was to ``work together, trying to improve the business environment in Nigeria.’’

Prof. Osinbajo said the renewed synergy with the legislature was to ensure that all the necessary legislations relating to the reforms were passed by the National Assembly.

The Acting President said: ``There are pieces of legislations that we are also looking forward to seeing. We are working together with the National Assembly to ensure that these pieces of legislations are passed.``

He added that the expected outcome of the new plan will be noticeable in improvements in all the key areas of government that facilitate trade and commerce.

According to Acting President Osinbajo, ``there are improvements which we expect to see at our ports. Improvements at our airports, improvements at the seaports, improvements in immigration visas etc.

``So there are quite a few things that we have seen and which we will continue to look at.’’

Prof. Osinbajo however noted that ``the set timelines in the action plan were to ensure that we are not just speaking about these things without necessarily tying ourselves down to specific timelines.’’

In his own remarks, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki stressed the importance of the executive/legislature collaboration in creating a conducive business environment for both local and foreign businesses in Nigeria.

The senate president, who commended the efforts of the executive, said the National Assembly would look into some of the issues that it could to improve the business environment in the country.

The Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives led the leadership of the National Assembly to the expanded meeting of the PEBEC.

Also present at the meeting were federal ministers who are members of the Council including the Attorney General &Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, SAN; Industry, Trade and Investment Minister, Dr Okey Enelamah; Power, Works and Housing Minister, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN; and the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

Other members of the Council including the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hammed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede and the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, attended the meeting.



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