ABUJA — THE House of Representatives, yesterday, resolved to set up an Ad-hoc committee to investigate former President Goodluck Jonathan and President Muhammadu Buhari’s N11.1 billion State House Clinic budgets between 2015-2017. The House unanimously agreed to carry out the investigation, sequel to a motion entitled: ‘’Need to investigate the deplorable condition of the State House Clinic and the alleged deductions from the salaries and allowances of the medical staff”, moved by Rep. Henry Archibong, PDP, Akwa Ibom. The House also commended the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, for bringing the issue to Public glare. In his submission on the motion, the lawmaker, who said the clinic has, over the years, been receiving annual budgetary allocations to procure equipment to function optimally, noted that in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 Appropriation Acts, the Clinic was allocated the sums of N3.94 billion, N3.87 billion and N3.2 billion respectively, for upgrading and provision of necessary drugs
Ilorin – Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says the board may not review downward the fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 2018. Oloyede Oloyede told newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin that the board had initially thought of reducing the fee for UTME in 2018. The JAMB registrar, who decried the unwholesome activities of some parents during the 2017 UTME, said reduction in fee was no longer attractive. He said many people were arrested during the last UTME for allegedly collecting money from parents who were presumed to be poor. “It (reduction in fee) is one of the options, but what’s mitigating against it, why I’m not convinced and I don’t think the board too is convinced, is that are the so-called poor people genuinely poor? “Our findings reveal that what people spend on corruption in the society to solicit for what was not lost is alarming. “What parents pay for seeking unholy support and what parent