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T he Senator representing Bayelsa East in the National Assembly, Ben Murray-Bruce, has said only his constituents can ask him how much he earns as a federal lawmaker. He said this following the recent call by Itse Sagay, the Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), for the Senate to disclose its members’ allowances. Sagay had claimed that a senator gets N29million in monthly pay. Murray-Bruce, writing on the issue via Twitter, said it would be “silly” for critics of the senate’s wage bill to approach him. “It is silly for anyone to have a problem with the Senate’s salaries and come to me. Go to YOUR own Senator! “Except you are my Constituent, It is silly for anyone to have a problem with the Senate’s salaries and come to me. Go to YOUR own Senator!” the tweets read. But BudgIT, Nigerian civic social enterprise, told the “common sense” senator that Nigerians had the right to ask him since he is a “senator of the Federal Rep...

A rewa Youth Forum, AYF, has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari and his team has performed below Nigerians’ expectations. AYF National president, Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu in a statement in Kaduna on Sunday said, “The youths also called for cabinet reshuffle as they posited that those that were expected to assist the President in his change agenda has failed in the discharge of their duties.” “A situation where majority of Nigerians languish in object poverty and penury, where people can no longer eat two times a day not to talk about three square meals a day is a worrisome development and a cause for concern for us and we believe should be for all well meaning Nigerians. “Time for change is now before it is too late; the alarming situation, however, is that there seems not to be any concrete or genuine solutions coming from government and its agencies on how to ameliorate the present quagmire that is threatening to take the country to the precipice.” “It is b...