The President, Major Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has requested the Senate to confirm the nomination of Ahmad Shaba Halilu as the substantive Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency.
Buhari, in a letter to President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, said he was acting in line with Section 14 (1) (2) of the NASRDA Act 2010.
This was made known in a statement issued on Tuesday night by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled ‘President Buhari requests Senate to confirm Ahmad Halilu as NASRDA DG.’
The statement read, “Halilu was until his nomination, the acting Director-General of the agency after being the Director in charge of Strategic Space Applications in the same organisation from 2009 to 2019.
“He has participated in workshops and conferences on Global Climate Change, Environmental Pollution and Food Security; Future Earth Observation Satellite Programmes and Geospatial Information Management; and Geospatial Technologies for Economic Diversification among others.
“He previously worked at the National Population Commission; Federal University of Technology, Minna; and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.”
Anaedoonline.ng reported that the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, on Tuesday, disagreed with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation on the interpretation of its Act.
The disagreement was on the sections of the Act that dealt with remittance of funds to the Federation Account by the corporation.
The committee invited NNPC Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari to explain the financial operations of the corporation in 2015, following a query by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation.
The auditor general had queried NNPC for deducting N865 billion from N2.4 trillion generated by the agency in 2015.
Explaining, Kyari said the actions of NNPC were backed by provisions of the law, which allowed it to make deductions of running costs from the source.
“What we do is backed by the provisions of the law. First, the NNPC Act is very clear that we should submit revenues net of our cost.
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“There is also an informed decision of the Supreme Court and also the Attorney General of the Federation, that the position is correct and supported by the provisions of the law,” he said.
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