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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has offered whistleblowers between 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent of recovered stolen Nigerian assets held abroad for information that leads to their recovery.

Olukoyede disclosed this on Wednesday while delivering a lecture at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in the United Kingdom.

According to him, the ability of EFCC operatives to trace assets, cooperation from the judiciary and access to credible intelligence have played important roles in the commission’s success in securing non-conviction-based forfeiture orders.

He also described the EFCC as having some of the best investigators in the world and stressed the importance of protecting and encouraging whistleblowers.

He said anyone with credible information about stolen Nigerian assets taken or hidden anywhere in the world could receive between 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent of the recovered assets as an incentive, with payment made after the recovery.

Olukoyede further revealed that the EFCC had forfeited cash and assets worth more than $500 million to the Federal Government within the past three years.

He cited several cases involving the recovery and forfeiture of assets, including cases linked to a former Chairman of the Central Bank of Nigeria and a former Attorney-General of the Federation.

The EFCC chairman explained that the commission is legally empowered to seek the forfeiture of suspected proceeds of crime by applying to the High Court for an order. He said the process is similar to procedures used in countries such as Australia and Canada.

Olukoyede also recalled a case involving an aircraft allegedly acquired by an individual who was accused of receiving about $30 million in bribes in connection with a power project. He said the aircraft was forfeited about three months ago and had subsequently been added to the presidential air fleet.

He also referred to a property containing about 753 housing units that was forfeited from a former CBN governor, against whom the EFCC has filed criminal charges in three courts.

Speaking about the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, Olukoyede said the EFCC opened an investigation following allegations of abuse of office. He claimed that investigators traced about 57 properties to Malami and that approximately 48 of them had been forfeited.

The EFCC chairman further mentioned the forfeiture of a private university allegedly linked to a director in the Federal Ministry of Health. According to him, the official voluntarily surrendered the property following the commission’s investigation.

Olukoyede said the measures demonstrate the importance of asset tracing, international cooperation, credible intelligence and whistleblower protection in the fight against financial crime and the recovery of stolen public assets.

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The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has raised concerns over the growing volume of imported petrol entering Nigeria, warning that it could be forced to export more of its own production if the trend continues.

The refinery said imported Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) made up roughly 43 per cent of the petrol supplied to the Nigerian market in July. It argued that the development was creating serious difficulties for a domestic refinery with the capacity to produce enough fuel for the country.

Dangote Refinery explained that it has maintained sizeable petrol reserves since commencing operations to ensure that consumers across Nigeria have access to a reliable supply. Keeping those reserves, it noted, requires substantial expenditure on storage, transportation and working capital.

However, the refinery said the continued granting of import licences without adequate information about expected import volumes has made it increasingly difficult to determine how much petrol should be produced and stored for the local market.

The company said holding large quantities of petrol becomes financially burdensome when there is no certainty about how much imported fuel will compete for the same market. It therefore considers exporting surplus stocks a more commercially viable option than allowing them to remain in storage indefinitely.

According to the refinery, increased exports in recent months should not be interpreted as evidence that Nigeria lacks sufficient refining capacity. Instead, the exports are being driven by excess stock resulting from unpredictable import volumes.

Dangote Refinery maintained that it remains fully committed to supplying the Nigerian market and has the capacity to meet or surpass the country's petrol requirements. It said its decision to export surplus products was aimed at managing inventory efficiently and avoiding unnecessary storage and financing expenses.

The refinery also warned that market disruptions caused by excessive imports could make it harder for domestic refiners to accurately predict demand. Any resulting supply problems, it said, should not automatically be blamed on local refineries.

It urged regulators and other industry stakeholders to improve transparency around petrol imports and strengthen coordination within the downstream petroleum market.

The company argued that policies that give greater support to domestic refining would help Nigeria reduce its dependence on imported fuel, conserve foreign exchange, strengthen energy security and maximise the economic benefits of investments in local refining infrastructure.

Dangote Refinery said it remains prepared to supply the country but stressed that a more predictable and transparent market environment is necessary for efficient production and inventory management.

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A group of heartless carpetbaggers have captured the Nigerian state, and it appears that they, their biological and political descendants, will hold the levers of government and access to Nigeria’s commonwealth for a long time to come.

When you consider news reports of how previous and current state actors steal public funds, buy choice properties in the toniest districts of Nigeria’s major cities, acquire private jets, and even establish private universities, you wonder if some people have more than two heads, to adopt a Yoruba phrase.

Either because of an inability to deliver the greatest good to the greatest number of Nigerian citizens, or by intention, the political elite have kept the people poor, causing them to depend on the largeness of heart of the same elite to meet their existential needs.

That explains why poor, downtrodden, and unconnected Nigerians eagerly collect crumbs of measly N5,000, rice, gari and whatever else the politicians offer to obtain their election votes or acquiescence after rigging the elections.

When watching an economically disadvantaged individual tell a politician who is seeking to become a legislator the good news that his wife just had a new baby, and he needed to prepare for the naming ceremony, it felt like the oppressed poor were enabling his oppressor to further oppress him.

It was like the classic case of Stockholm syndrome, of victims collaborating with their “captors” to cement the oppressive stranglehold that they already had over the state and the commonwealth of the nation, thus unwittingly arresting their own future development.

A running mate to a former governorship candidate in a Southwestern state hilariously regaled Nigerians with the story of how constituents would have raided all the alcoholic drinks in his refrigerator in the early hours of the morning, even before he woke from the hectic campaign tour of the previous day.


The political elite have practically cornered the Nigerian state for themselves, children, tribesmen and acolytes, and have devised a way to admit only those that they have found to be loyal, or pliable, into their rank of oppressors.

The oppression of the citizens of Nigeria is easily accomplished because of the high illiteracy level amongst the poor masses. The use of the weapon of illiteracy is more evident in Northern Nigeria, whose political leaders somehow turn a blind eye to the illiteracy and underdevelopment of their people.

In 2024, UNICEF revealed that out of Nigeria’s 18.3 million out-of-school children, about 12.1 million, or 66 per cent, were resident in the Northwest and Northeast regions. Yet, instead of expanding educational facilities and opportunities, some Northern governors are arranging mass weddings for children who are hardly out of their teen years.

And this is not to deny the weaponisation of illiteracy even in Obafemi Awolowo’s Western Region, which is regarded as the Athens of Nigeria, after its pre-Independence head start of free, universal and compulsory primary school education.

As if he had a premonition that Nigeria’s so-called democrats would eventually compromise education, to the detriment of the lowest and marginalised masses, that Karl Marx described as the “lumpen proletariat”, French political thinker Montesquieu argued a long time ago that “It is in a republican government that the whole power of education is required.”

Western Nigeria’s free education scheme was gradually abandoned from the days of the Second Republic when some Yoruba members of President Shehu Shagari’s political party knocked it off its bottom with the argument that “qualitative” education was better than “free” education.

It is more than a shame that a free, universal and compulsory primary school education scheme was abandoned under President Shagari, who not only was a trained teacher, but had a career as a teacher before his political career.

Awolowo had warned Nigeria’s political elite with the following quip: “The children of the poor that you failed to educate will not let your children sleep peacefully.” The insecurity that currently occurs in nearly every part of Nigeria only drives Awolowo’s point home.

Probably the realm of the Nigerian republic that has been most complicit with the carpetbagger political elite is the media, whose members either serve the elites as press secretaries who kill media brushfires, or editors who either run planted stories, or spike stories that the politicians do not want published.

The media is so compromised that it can hardly perform those responsibilities assigned to it by Section 22 of the Nigerian Constitution, which are to “be free to uphold the fundamental objectives contained in (Chapter II of the Constitution) and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the Government to the people.”

Some apologists have argued on behalf of the media that the political elite have so run the economy aground that the media, which can only thrive as commercial enterprises within Nigeria’s quasi-capitalist economy, cannot stay afloat, especially with the devastating inroads that the digital media are making into their audience, advertising revenue and profit.

The absence of regional economies, the argument goes, prevents the emergence of regional newspapers that can thrive on advertising revenues from regional companies, the way it obtains in the economies of North America and Western Europe. Many Nigerian newspapers, that are essentially regional, often pretend to be national to receive advertising revenue from companies whose market is national.

Two other collaborators of the political elite are the election management agencies and the judiciary at both the national and sub-national levels of government. The conspiracy between these agencies and the political elite is almost like that of Siamese twins conjoined by the belly button.

After the election management agencies may have deliberately bungled (especially) governorship and legislative house elections, and declared false reports, the losers, who felt that they won the election, would then approach the temple of justice, with significant financial inducement to ask for justice(?).


From that point on, the justice that both contestants hope to corruptly obtain could swing according to the heft of the naira in the Ghana-must-go bag that they will be hauling into the chambers of the denizens of the corrupted judiciary.

Thus, the “award” of electoral justice is “a matter of cash”, to quote Basi, the protagonist of “Basi & Co”, the television sitcom produced by environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who himself was denied justice from the judiciary that served the regime of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s most notorious military dictator.

In Nigeria, the lines of separation of powers that demarcate the duties of the three arms of government –the legislative, executive and judiciary– and the checks and balances that empower each arm to check the others have become almost irredeemably blurred.

As legislators use constituency projects as a ploy to carry out the functions of the executive, the president issues executive orders that are essentially legislative in nature. Though the judiciary does not perform the duties of the other arms, it fails to check them as it indulgently winks at their excesses.

If those who are regarded as Nigeria’s political elite really know what is in their enlightened self-interest and would like to protect the future of their descendants from what Thomas Hobbes described as a short, brutish and nasty existence, they will use their current privilege to correct the evil they have done to Nigerians.

They must urgently redeem the future before it delivers violence against their children.

By Lekan Sote

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Lagos alone is worth more than Botswana, Namibia, Rwanda and Mauritius combined.

Let that sink in.

With an economy of N41.17tn — about $102bn in 2021 — Lagos State dwarfed the entire gross domestic products of four countries. Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa sit on oil wealth that funds nations. Ogun, Anambra and Imo churn out goods, services and commerce that would make small economies jealous.

By the numbers, Nigeria’s states are giants.

But walk the streets of Lagos, and you will still find mothers cooking with firewood. Drive through Port Harcourt, and you will see communities drinking water polluted by the same oil that makes the state’s GDP glow. Visit Umuahia, Abeokuta, or Minna and ask the average trader what “trillion-naira economy” means to her dinner table.

The answer is: nothing.

That viral video telling you “10 Nigerian states are richer than countries” is both true and a lie. True, because the 2021 BudgIT figures don’t lie — Lagos at N41.17trn, Rivers at N7.96trn, and so on. A lie, because those numbers are GDP, not prosperity. They measure how much economic activity happens _in_ a place, not how much of it reaches the people who live there.


A country with $7,778 GDP per capita, like Botswana, will still feed its citizens better than a state with $102bn in total output but $2,058 per capita, like Nigeria. A state can host a port, an oil rig, and a tech hub, yet fail to build a hospital that works.

So, the real question isn’t “Which state is bigger than which country?”

The real question, and the one our governors should lose sleep over, is this: When your economy is bigger than a nation, why are your people still living like they have nothing?

In this edition of The Bottomline, we follow the money from GDP to the gutter — and ask why Nigeria’s trillion-naira states have not become trillion-naira lives.

The viral numbers are not new. They were lifted straight from BudgIT’s 2022 State of States report and reflected 2021 estimates: Lagos at N41.17tn, followed by Rivers at N7.96tn, Akwa Ibom at N7.77tn, Imo at N7.68tn, Delta at N6.19tn, Anambra at N5.14tn, Ondo at N5.10tn, Ogun at N5.03tn, Bayelsa at N4.63tn and Niger at N4.58tn.

The trick is in the timing. To pitch those 2021 figures against 2025 country GDPs is statistical fraud. Nigeria has since rebased. The NBS moved the base year from 2010 to 2019, and the whole map shifted. Lagos itself has moved on: its 2025 _Lagos Economic Development Update_ puts the state at N43.06tn in 2023, with forecasts of N54.77tn for 2024 and N66.47tn for 2025. Those are projections, not fresh NBS post-rebasing observations, but they tell you the direction: up.

There is no debate that Lagos is Nigeria’s economic engine. From a colonial port to federal capital until 1991, it never lost momentum. Today, trade, manufacturing, ports, telecoms, tech, entertainment, real estate and finance all cluster in just 3,345 square kilometres. Compare that footprint to Botswana’s 581,730 sq km, Namibia’s 825,615 sq km, Rwanda’s 26,338 sq km, and Mauritius’ 2,040 sq km. Yet in 2021, Lagos’ $102 billion economy was several times larger than Botswana’s $19.9bn, Namibia’s $15.1bn, Rwanda’s $16.4bn, and Mauritius’ $16.2bn, according to 2025 World Bank figures.

That comparison is legitimate. The conclusion people draw from it is not.

GDP tells you how much value was produced in a territory. It does not tell you who owns it, who earns it, or whether the roads work, the lights stay on, or the hospital has drugs.

A state can run a trillion-naira economy and still have mothers boiling water on firewood. A country can have a smaller GDP and deliver a better life. Look at the per capita numbers: Botswana at $7,778, Namibia at $5,309, Mauritius at $11,819. Nigeria sits at about $2,058. Even Rwanda, at just $773 per capita, has pushed its $3-a-day poverty rate down to 38.6 per cent — proof that size is not destiny.

The oil states expose the fraud most brutally. Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa rank high because petroleum inflates their GDP. But oil wealth does not flow into state coffers in equal measure, and it certainly does not flow into household wallets. BudgIT’s own fiscal sustainability index proves this. In 2022, Rivers topped overall fiscal performance despite Lagos having the biggest economy. A big economy without revenue discipline, jobs, and services is just a billboard.

Nigeria does not have a GDP problem. We have a translation problem.

We have pockets of enormous economic power. Lagos. Rivers. Akwa Ibom. Ogun. Anambra. Delta. The output is real. What is missing is the bridge between that output and ordinary life.

Until economic activity creates real jobs, until IGR rises and addiction to federal allocation falls, until infrastructure supports production instead of strangling it, those trillion-naira figures will remain a cruel joke.


So let the video go viral. Let Lagos be “bigger than Botswana”.

But governors, commissioners, and citizens should ask only one question:

If my state can outproduce a country, why can’t it out-deliver a decent life for the people who call it home?

Until we answer that, we are not rich. We are just big.
By Raphael Mbamalu

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Following deliberations at the ongoing Nigeria National Conference at the Conference Management Secretariat in Abuja, 20 committees have been constituted to oversee specific issues.

The committees are: Committee On Devolution Of Power, Committee On Political Restructuring And Forms Of Government; Committee On National Security; Committee On Environment;  Committee On Politics And Governance;  Committee On Law, Judiciary, Human Rights And Legal Reform, Committee On Social Sector; Committee On Transportation,  Committee On Science, Technology And Development, Committee On Agriculture, Committee On Civil Society, Labour And Sports, Committee On Public Service, Committee On Political Parties And Electoral Matters, Committee On Foreign Policy And Diaspora Matters, Committee On Immigration And Related Matters Committee On Public Finance And Revenue, Committee On Religion, Committee On Energy, Committee On Economy, Trade And Investment and Committee On Land Tenure And National Boundaries.

 

All the committees have 24 delegates as members except the committee on devolution of power and committee on political restructuring and forms of government which both have 28 members each and committee on religion with 19 members.

 

Below is a full list of the committee composition:

 

1.        COMMITTEE ON DEVOLUTION OF POWER

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ADEBANJO, Chief Ayo

2.

ADEDEJI, Chief (Barrister) Gbadegesin

3.

ADEFUYE, Senator Anthony

4.

AKINTOLA, Chief Adeniyi SAN

5.

ALI, Dr. Amadu A.

6.

AMINU, Prof. Jibril

7.

ASARA, His Royal Highness Asara A.

8.

ATTAH, (Obong) Victor

9.

BRAITHWAITE, Dr. Tunji PhD

10.

BRIGGS, Annkio

11.

DALHATU, Alhaji Bashir M.

12.

DANBATTA, Magaji

13.

DARAH, Prof. Godini G.

14.

FARUK, Alhaji Usman

15.

GALADIMA, Engr. Abubakar Buba

16.

IKEDIFE, Dr. (Chief) Dozie

17.

MANTU, Sen. Ibrahim Nasiru

18.

MUHAMMAD, Dr. Junaid

19.

NNAMANI, Sen. Ken

20.

NWOSU, Prof. A. B. C.

21.

ONAH, Prof. Mrs. Rose

22.

SANI, Mr. Anthony

23.

SANUSI, Dr Haruna Usman

24.

SARAKI, Sen. Gbemi

25.

TILLEY-GYADO, Sen. Jack

26.

UDOMBANA, Prof. Nsongurua J.

27.

YAKASAI, Malam Tanko

28.

YERIMA, Hon. Dr Haruna

 

 

 

2.        COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ANYA, Prof. Anya O.

2.

AROGBOFA, Basorun Seinde

3.

ARUWA, Senator Ahmed Mohammed

4.

AWOLOWO-DOSUMU, Dr. Olatokunbo

5.

BAKARE, Pastor Tunde

6.

BARIGHA-AMANGE, Senator Nimi

7.

DANSADAU,  Senator Sa’idu Mohammed

8.

EGWU, Dr. Sam

9.

ELUE, Chief Benjamin S. C.

10.

ENWO-IGARIWEY, Chief Gary

11.

FALAE, Chief Olu

12.

GARBA, Hon. Binta Masi

13.

HAMMA, Malam  Sule Yahya

14.

KUMALIA, Hon. Mohammed Umara

15.

KUMO,  Senator Sa’idu Umar

16.

KURE, His Excellency Engr. Abdulkadir A.

17.

MOHAMMED, AVM Moukhtar (rtd)

18.

MOHAMMED, Dr. Abubakar Saddique

19.

MOHAMMED, Prof. Isa Baba

20.

NKANGA, Air Cdre Idongesit (rtd)

21.

NWACHUKWU, General Ike (rtd)

22.

OBAIGBENA, Mr. Nduka

23.

ODILI, Dr. Peter

24.

ODUMAKIN, Mr. Yinka

25.

SALAWU, Dr. Phillips O.

26.

TAPGUN, Amb. Fidelis N.

27.

TEMLONG, Gen. Jonathan N. (rtd)

28.

WAZIRI, Adamu Maina

 

 

3.        COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ADAMS, Chief Gani

2.

ADETUYI, Barr. Samuel CP (rtd)

3.

AKINRINADE, General Alani (rtd)

4.

ALBASU,  Barr. Bashir AIG (rtd.)

5.

DAN-ALI, Brig. Gen. Muhammad Mansur (Rtd)

6.

DODO, Damian SAN

7.

DOMA, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe

8.

EJIGA, Maj-Gen. Geoffrey (rtd)

9.

HORSFALL, Chief Albert K.

10.

IDADA-IKPONMWEN, Brig. Gen. (Barr.) D. O.

11.

JIMETA, Mohammed Gambo Adamu

12.

LEKWOT, Gen. Zamani (rtd)

13.

MOHAMMED, Senator Ahmed Inuwa

14.

MONGUNO, Hajiya Fati (Dogonyaro) Ali

15.

MSHELBWALA, Maj. Gen. Alex (rtd)

16.

NKEMDEME, Chief (Barr.) Nicholas Daru

17.

NYIAM, Col. Tony (rtd)

18.

OBADA, Her Excellency Erelu Olusola Agbeja

19.

OHADOMERE, Gp Cpt Canice (rtd)

20.

OKWUONU, High Chief Jerome

21.

OMU, Gen. Paul (rtd)

22.

ORJI, Group Capt. Joe (rtd)

23.

USENI, Lt. Gen. Jeremiah T. (rtd)

24.

YUSUF,  Senator Bello Maitama

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.        COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ACHIMUGU, Elder Barr. John A.

2.

BASSEY, Rev. Nnimmo

3.

ELUEMUNOH, Elder (Dr) Chris Oseloka

4.

ENEYO, Chief (Dr.) Silas

5.

GBADEBO, Yinka

6.

GONI, Alhaji Mohammed

7.

IYAJI, Alhaji Sule

8.

KYARI, Mr. Bukar

9.

MADUGU, Alhaji Ali S.

10.

MAMMAN, Mr. John

11.

MANDARA, Yadoma Bukar

12.

METEE, Mr. Ledum

13.

MIMIKO, Prof. N. Oluwafemi

14.

NJEMANZE, Prince Bob Kay

15.

NWAJIUBA, Prof. Chinedu

16.

OCHEFU,  Prof. Yakubu A.

17.

OKOYE, Festus

18.

SALAKO, Sunday Olusoji

19.

SAMUEL, Prof. Tunde

20.

SHUNI, Sen. Ladan

21.

WAI-OGOSU,  Engr. Olu Andah

22.

WAZIRI, Hajiya Mariya

23.

YARO, His Royal Highness Ibrahim, Esu Bwari

24.

ZANDAM, Alhaji Umaru Musa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.        COMMITTEE ON POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABARI, Dr. Garba

2.

ABDULLAHI, Amb. Yerima

3.

ABDULRAZAQ-GWADABE, Senator Khairat

4.

ADAMU, Amb. Hassan

5.

AHAMBA, Chief Mike SAN

6.

AINA, Prof. (Mrs.) Olabisi I.

7.

AJAYI, Sir Olaniwun

8.

AKINGBA, Dr. Amos

9.

DARENG, Elder Bulus

10.

EGWU, Prof. Samuel

11.

EKPU, Ray

12.

GANA, Prof. Jerry

13.

IDA, Senator Ibrahim M.

14.

ITA-GIWA, Senator Florence

15.

MUAZU, Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu

16.

MUHAMMAD, Dr. Bello Halliru

17.

NA’ABBA, Hon. Ghali Umar

18.

NWANYANWU, Chief (Barr.) Dan

19.

NWUCHE, Hon. Prince Chibudom

20.

OKON, Senator Anietie

21.

OKUNROUNMU, Senator Femi

22.

UGOCHUKWU, Chief Onyema

23.

WABARA, Senator Adolphus

24.

YUSUF, Malam Kabiru Abdullahi

 

 

6.        COMMITTEE ON LAW, JUDICIARY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL REFORM

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

AGBAKOBA, Dr. Olisa SAN

2.

AKERE, Justice Peter (rtd)

3.

ALIYU, Justice Adamu (rtd)

4.

ASKIRAMA III, HRH Alh. Abdullahi Ibn Muhammad

5.

BA’ABA, Hon. Justice Baba Alkali

6.

BUCKNOR-AKERELE, Senator Kofoworola

7.

DURA, Dr. Magdalyne Mbadzendan

8.

EDOSOMWAN, Mr. Charles SAN

9.

FALANA, Femi

10.

GUMMI, HRH Justice Lawal Hassan

11.

GYE-WADO, Prof. Onje

12.

MUSA, Hajja Bintu Ibrahim

13.

MUSTAPHA, Hon. Justice Abdullahi(rtd)

14.

NWEME, Barr. Igberi

15.

OGUNTADE, Hon. Justice G. A.

16.

OJO, Chief Bayo SAN

17.

OSUN, Hon. Olawale

18.

OZEKHOME, Chief Mike SAN

19.

SHEKARAU, Ms. Hauwa Evelyn

20.

TABAI, Hon. Justice F. F.

21.

UMAR, Barr. Zubair Muhammad

22.

UMEH, Hon. Justice Veronica Ngozi

23.

UWAZURIKE, Chief Goddy

24.

YADUDU, Prof. Auwalu

 

 

 

 

7.        COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECTOR

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULLAHI, Prof. Gambo Laraba

2.

ADAMU, Dr. Fati Lami

3.

AJANI, Comrade Olawale James

4.

AKUNYILI, Prof. Dora

5.

ANENIH, Iyom Josephine

6.

BUNU, Arc. Ibrahim

7.

ENABULELE,  Dr. Osahon

8.

ERIOBUNA, Senator Nnamdi

9.

ESELE, Comrade Peter

10.

GABRIEL, Prof. (Mrs.) Amakievi

11.

GASKIA, Jaye

12.

IBRAHIM, Dr. Fati Eunice

13.

ISMA’IL, Hajiya Aisha M. S.

14.

JANKADA, Hon. Dr. Salome Audu

15.

MADAWAKI, Prof. Aisha I.

16.

MAHMUD-FASOMINU, Dr. (Mrs.) Olayemi

17.

OGBU, His Excellency Prof. Chigozie

18.

OKPOYO, Her Excellency (Mrs) Atim Etim

19.

OLAGBEGI,  Chief (Mrs.) Bisi Olateru

20.

OLAJIDE, Dr. Kunle

21.

OTHMAN, Alhaji Muhammed

22.

SAMO, Mr. Bah Abubakar

23.

SHOWN, Prof. Dakum

24.

ZAGBAYI, Dr. Shem Nuhu

 

 

 

 

8.        COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABUBAKAR, Yusuf Hamisu

2.

ADEDE, Senator Musa

3.

ADEWUSI, Barr. Promise Adebunmi Kanayo

4.

AGBONWANEGBE, Barr. Chris

5.

AKPAN, Brenda

6.

ANOLIEFO, Hon. (Chief) Obi

7.

BARKINDO, Mallam Hamman Bello

8.

BULAMA, Dr. Abdu

9.

EBINUM, Barr. J. I.

10.

IBRAHIM, Mrs Patience Hadiza

11.

ISIWELE,  Alhaji Musa Shehu

12.

LOHOR, Chief (Mrs) Hannatu

13.

MGBADA, Dr. Clement

14.

NAHAYA, Asabe Baba

15.

NWAGWU,  Ezenwa

16.

OBUR, Clifford

17.

OLASANOYE, Oyinkan

18.

OLUKOYA, Michael

19.

OSANAIYE, AIG Ralph Ola (rtd)

20.

SANNI, Mrs Felicia

21.

SEKONI, Hon. Sheik Mudathir

22.

UGOEZE, Millicent Okonkwo

23.

UKO, Prof. John

24.

VIKO, Mrs Lydia J.

 

 

9.        COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABAYORI, Dr. Femi

2.

ADEGOKE, Hon. Salvador Moshood

3.

DOKPESI, High Chief (Dr.) Aleogho Raymond

4.

ELEH, Mr. Emeka D.

5.

GEORGE, Chief Olabode

6.

GONDA, Engr. (Mrs.) Esther

7.

HART, Hon. Dandeson

8.

IGHURE, Isaac

9.

IVOWI, Prof. U. M. O.

10.

IZUOGU, Engr. Dr. Ezekiel

11.

KUKU, Chief (Mrs.) Remi

12.

MADAWAKI, Prof. Aisha

13.

MADDO, Dr. Daniel G.

14.

MADUKA, Engr. Vincent I.

15.

MUSA, Aliyu Abdulhakeem

16.

NWOSU-IHEME, Chief Uzoma

17.

OBASI, Comrade Chinonso

18.

OGUNDIPE, Mr. Lanre

19.

OKEY, Ntufam (Dr) Josephat Itafu

20.

OKOH, Hon. Sylvester Oziegbe

21.

OKWOLI, Prof. Ambrose

22.

TENUCHE, Prof. (Mrs.) Marietu

23.

TOMORI, Prof. Oyewale

24.

YUSHA’U, Dr. Balarabe

 

 10.      COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULSALAM, Comrade Abdulkadir

2.

ABIYE, Mrs. Sheila Tamuno

3.

ABONGABY, Barr. Chris Danjuma

4.

AJAYI, Chief (Mrs.) Temitope

5.

ANISULOWO, Senator Iyabo

6.

ANKA, Hassan Salihu

7.

BABAJO, Hajia Nafisatu

8.

ESU, Prof. Ivara Ejemot

9.

HADEJIA, Umaru Muhammad

10.

IBRAHIM-IMAM, Kashim

11.

IDIGBE, Mrs. Ifeoma

12.

IKEGWUONU, Nnaemeka

13.

ILIASU, Hajiya Mariyatu

14.

JUNJU, Barr. Nasiru Ibrahim

15.

LAWAL, Dr. Mohammed Hassan

16.

LOMBIN, Prof. Ganyir Gabriel

17.

NWALI, Senator (Dr.) Offia

18.

NWUZOR, Dr. (Mrs.) Adaeze

19.

OTI, Prof. (Mrs.) Nnenna N.

20.

RAJI, Prof. AbdulGaniy Olayinka

21.

TSAMDU, Hon. Emmanuel

22.

TSUMBA, Rt. Hon. Terseer

23.

UMORU, Mosunmola

24.

USMAN, Hajiya Altine

 

 

 

 

11.      COMMITTEE ON CIVIL SOCIETY, LABOUR AND SPORTS

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

AKANDE, Kazeem

2.

ALIYU, Zainab Argungu

3.

AREMU, Issa

4.

ASSANI, Comrade (Mrs.) Dinatu Asibi

5.

BASI, Mr. Paul

6.

DANGA, Mr. Iliya I.

7.

DUKE, Rt. Hon. Orok Out

8.

DUNTOYE, Comrade Ben

9.

EZIKE,  Ebuchukwu

10.

GIWA, Kyauta

11.

IBRAHIM, Dr. (Mrs.) Hannatu Ladi

12.

NWABUEZE, Comrade Henry

13.

OFFIONG, Comrade Lucy A.

14.

OGUNRINADE, Mrs. Bola

15.

OKEI-ODUMAKIN, Dr. Joe

16.

OKUNNIYI, Veteran Olawale

17.

OLADELE, Dr. Rotimi

18.

OMAR, Abdulwahed Ibrahim

19.

OPARA, Engr. Bede

20.

OZO-ESON, Dr. Peter

21.

RAFSANJANI, Auwal Musa

22.

SHU’AIBU, Kiri Mohammed

23.

UMOH, Ms. Ekaete Judith

24.

YA’U, Y. Z.

 

 

 

12.      COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SERVICE

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDUSSALAM, Rt. Hon. Taofiq Olawale

2.

AGBARU, Chief Sampson

3.

AGUBUZU, HRH Igwe (Amb) L. O. C.

4.

AJIYA, Rt. Hon. Habu Isa

5.

AKANMODE, Chief Olusola

6.

ALI, Ammuna Lawan

7.

ALIYU, Amb. Adamu

8.

BARDA, Alhaji Saidu

9.

DADA, Olayinka (JP)

10.

DAIBU, Alhaji Yusuf Kawu

11.

DANJUMA, Senator Daisy

12.

EKERENDU, Dr. Edet Antai

13.

ENEBELI, Chief Paul

14.

IGWE, Mrs. Eunice

15.

KAIGAMA, Comrade Bobboi Bala

16.

MAGORO, Hajiya Dr Bilkisu

17.

MAMMAN, Kenan

18.

OGBONNAYA, Prof. Joshua C.

19.

OGUNSHOLA, Chief Ajibola

20.

OKEKE,  Engr. Ebele O.

21.

OLAITAN, Olakunle Olanrewaju

22.

RASAKI, Gen. Raji (rtd)

23.

SANUSI, HRH Alh. (Dr) Nuhu Muhammad

24.

TURAKI, Prof. Yusufu

 

 

 

 

 

13.      COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL MATTERS

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULLAHI, Hon. Musa Elayo

2.

ADAMU, Senator Abdullahi Bala

3.

AKHABUE, Hon. (Dr.) Felix

4.

ALKALI, Prof. Muhammad Nur

5.

AYU, Dr. Iyorchia

6.

BALOGUN, Chief (Mrs.) Anthonia

7.

CHUKWU, Chief Wachuku

8.

DAUDA, Dr. Saleh

9.

EBISENI, Chief Nehemiah Olushola

10.

EDET, Rt. Hon. Ignatius Kevin

11.

IBRAHIM, Senator Muhammed

12.

JIBRIL,  Senator Mohammed Kabiru

13.

KAWU, Is’haq Modibbo

14.

KURA,  Malam Naseer

15.

NGIERIWAGHA, Dr. (Mrs.)

16.

NNEBE, Rt. Hon. (Chief) Anayo

17.

OKOKO, Prof. Kimse

18.

OKOROAFOR, Mrs. Ezinwa

19.

OLATUBORA, Barr. Remi

20.

OSOBA, His Excellency Chief Olusegun

21.

SALIHU, Barr. Musa

22.

SANI, Alhaji Mohammed Zoro

23.

UDENWA, His Excellency Chief Achike

24.

YUSUF, Khalifa Hassan

 

 

14.      COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN POLICY AND DIASPORA MATTERS

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABUBAKAR,  Amb. Abdulmumuni AIG (rtd)

2.

AHMED, Hon. Abubakar Sadiq

3.

ALA, Chief Babatunde

4.

ANIBOWEI, Hon. George

5.

AYOGU, Amb. Fidel Mama

6.

EKPEBU, Amb. (Prof.) Lawrence

7.

GAMBARI, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola

8.

MAMMAN, Amb. Yaro Yusuf

9.

MANUGA, Dudu Poloma

10.

MOHAMMED, Amb. Isa Aliyu

11.

NZADON, Chief (Barr.) Dan Leonard

12.

OKE, Mrs. Bunmi

13.

OKOBI, Amb. Vincent Sunny

14.

OKOYE, Mr. Gabriel

15.

OLADIMEJI, Adebayo

16.

OYEBODE, Prof. Akin

17.

SANI, Amb. B. M.

18.

SHINKAYE, Amb. J. K.

19.

SULE, Amb. Ibrahim Mai

20.

UDECHUKWU, Christian Chukwudozie

21.

UWAGA, Dr. Nelson U. O.

22.

UYOT, Chris

23.

YARO, Rt. Hon. Muhammad

24.

ZUBAIRU, Ambassador Suleiman

 

 

 

 

15.      COMMITTEE ON LAND TENURE AND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ADEDAPO, HRM Oba Arc. Aderemi A.

2.

ADEDEJI, HRM Oba Michael Gbadebo Ariyowonye II

3.

ADEGBUYI, Barr. Bisi

4.

AKANWA, Hon. Dame Victoria

5.

ALIYU, Hon. Justice Balkisu Bello

6.

ALUKO-DANIEL, Steve Osebi

7.

BUBA, His Royal Highness Elder Jacob Gyang

8.

DIETE-SPIFF, His Excellency King Alfred

9.

EHANMO, Rear Adm. Christopher Sule (rtd)

10.

ESIENE, Chief Nduese

11.

FUMUDOH, Chief Joshua B.

12.

GAMBARI, HRH Alh. Ibrahim Sulu CFR

13.

ILOMUANYA, His Royal Highness  Eze (Dr) Cletus

14.

ISEKHURE, Chief Nosakhare, JP

15.

MADUBUIKE, Prof. Ihechukwu Chiedozie

16.

MAMMAN, Gen. A. B. (rtd)

17.

MOHAMMED, Hon. Maryam S.

18.

MUSTAPHA, HRH Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu CFR

19.

NJIDDA, Kashim

20.

NWAORGU, Dr. Joe

21.

OLUGBENLE, HRM Oba Kehinde Gbadewole

22.

OSHINOWO-BASHORUN,  Olufunmilayo

23.

OSUOKA, Dr. Isaac

24.

WALI, Okey SAN

 

 

 

 

16.      COMMITEE ON ECONOMY, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULKADIR, Ibrahim-Khaleel

2.

ADEOLA, Mr. Fola

3.

AINA, Dr. Lawrence Olusegun

4.

AKANDE, Chief Dr. (Mrs.) Onikepo

5.

BAJOMO, Senator (Chief) Felix Kolawole

6.

BELLO, Engr. Mustafa

7.

ERHAGBE, Prof. Eddy

8.

ETAFO, Augustine

9.

EZE, His Royal Highness Eze Elder Agom

10.

IBRAHIM, Barr. Halidu

11.

IKEGWUONU, Nnaemeka

12.

JAMODU, Chief Kola

13.

JUNAIDU, Prof. Sambo

14.

MAFINDI, Alhaji Isa

15.

NWEKE II, Mr. Frank

16.

OBOH, Prof. Sylvanus

17.

OGBONNAYA, Dr. (Mrs.) Patricia Wudhiga

18.

OLEJEME, Mrs. (Dr.) Ngozi

19.

SHAGAYA, Hajiya Bola

20.

SHENDAM, Yakubu

21.

TAWO, Dr. Pius

22.

UGBOAJA, Emmanuel

23.

UKPO, Gen. Anthony (rtd.)

24.

WAZIRI, Ibrahim D.

 

 

 

17.      COMMITTEE ON ENERGY

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULMAJEED, Abdullahi

2.

AJAERO, Joe

3.

AKINJIDE, Chief Richard

4.

BELLO, Mrs. Maryam Jummai

5.

BENJAMIN-AYUBA, Mrs. Sarah

6.

BRAIMOH, Senator Yisa

7.

BRAMBAIFA, Senator John K.

8.

BRIMMO, Arc. Waheed Niyi

9.

DAUKORU, HRM King Dr. Edmund

10.

EZENWA, Mrs. Ifeayinwa

11.

IBIANG, Hon. Charles

12.

IBRAHIM, Dr. Princess Rabi

13.

IBRAHIM, Mallam Muhammadu Biu

14.

JUMARE, Dr. Mohammed

15.

KILA, Engr. (Senator) Adefemi

16.

LADOJA, Senator Rashidi Adewolu

17.

McCARTHY, Chief (Mrs) Wosilat Tinuke

18.

NALADO, Hon. Muhammad Lawal

19.

NWOBODO, Senator Jim

20.

OGBOLE, Mr. Dogara Mark

21.

OGOH, Mrs. Safiya Ibrahim

22.

OLUWA, Prince Rabiu

23.

SULEIMAN, Engr.  Bello

24.

UWAJUMOGU, Chief (Ms.) Chidinma

 

 

 

18.      COMMITTEE ON RELIGION

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

AJAKAYE, Bishop Felix Femi

2.

ALFA, Hajia Shetu

3.

BAGOBIRI, Bishop Joseph D.

4.

DATTIJO, Hadija Dije

5.

EKPE, Prof. Obini E.

6.

EMMANUEL , Pastor Bosun

7.

ERINOSHO, Prof. Layi

8.

HANGA, Mal. Muzzammil Sani

9.

HARUNA, Prof. Andrew

10.

IKE, Monsignor Obiora

11.

IYOKE, Barr. Godswill Iyoha

12.

JIBRIL, Prof, Munzali

13.

LEMU, Alh. Nuruddeen

14.

NASIR, Hajiya Talatu

15.

NASIR, Justice Mamman (rtd)

16.

OBAJE, Dr. Jonathan

17.

OLOYEDE, Prof. Is-haq O.

18.

OMOTI, Hajia Amina B.

 

 

 

19.      COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC FINANCE AND REVENUE

 

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

AGBOTI, Senator Azu

2.

AJAKAIYE,  Prof. Olu

3.

AKANDE, Chief Femi

4.

ALAMIEYESEIGHA, Chief D.S.P.

5.

ALIERO, HE Adamu Muhammad

6.

ANDREW, Esther

7.

ANOHU, Dr. (Mrs.) Virginia A.

8.

ARIKAWE, Mr. Akin

9.

AUDU, Chief Robert Usman

10.

AWUSE, Chief Sergeant Chidi

11.

AYUBA, Gen. Tanko (rtd)

12.

BALA, Hajiya Dije

13.

DINGYADI, Muhammad Maigari

14.

DOUKPOLA, Chief Francis

15.

EDEM, Chief Bassey E. O.

16.

FILANI, Prof. (Mrs.) Titilola

17.

MANDE, Col. Bala Mohammed (rtd)

18.

MUSA-LAWAL, Com. Barr. Mohammed Ozigi

19.

NGBALE, Mr. Moses

20.

OHIOMAH, Alhaji Abdullahi

21.

OKPAREKE, Dr (Mrs) Kate

22.

OLUATA, Mr. Johnson Oludeinde

23.

OSUNG, Chief Okon

24.

UCHE, Chief Richard Uchechukwu

 

 

 

20.      COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND RELATED MATTERS

S/No.

DELEGATE

1.

ABDULLAH, Dr. Maryam C.

2.

ABDULLAHI, HRH Dr. Muhammad Zaiyanu

3.

ABUBAKAR, Mohammed Badaru

4.

ADEKAMBI, Barr. Ayodele

5.

AKIKA, Barr. Anthony

6.

AKIYODE-AFOLABI, Dr. Abiola

7.

ALBERT, Prof. Olawale

8.

ALI-KANO, Abdullahi

9.

BUKAR, Hajiya Hauwa

10

DARA, John

11.

ETIABA, Dame Virgy

12.

EZEIFE, Dr. Chukwuemeka

13.

FUMUDOH, Chief Joshua B.

14.

IBRAHIM, Dr. Garba

15.

JEMIDE, Chief Isaac O.

16.

LAWAN, Hon. Umar Kareto

17.

MAHMUD, Aminu

18.

MBA, Chief (Mrs.) Nkechi Okemini

19.

MOM, Rommy

20.

NNAMANI, Senator Ken

21.

PETERSIDE, Dr. Atedo N. A.

22.

SHASORE, Mr. Olasupo SAN

23.

USMAN, Ramatu Bala

24.

UTHMAN, Hon. Justice Mohammed