The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, was on Tuesday elected Chairman of the Monetary and Financial Affairs Committee of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP). Democratic Republic of Congo lawmaker Christine Katempa was named Deputy Chairman. The PAP is the legislative arm of the African Union, comprising 55 member states representing all countries on the African continent. The …

Special Adviser (Media) to the Presidential Amnesty Programme Interim Administrator, Mr. Freston Akpor has explained how the PAP has been able to tackle Bank Verification Number (BVN) fraud of 513 ex-agitators linked to 1,370 accounts. In a statement in Abuja, Akpor stated that other anomalies were detected and that certain accounts were not linked to their BVNs which accounted for …