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INCLUSIVE SOCIOECONOMIC SPACE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT By Femi Aborisade, Esq [1] . Introduction This paper is structured as follows: Definition of concepts – “inclusive society/social inclusion” and “sustainable development”. Elements of an inclusive society

DOES THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAVE POWER TO ALTER BUDGETARY ESTIMATES PREPARED BY THE EXECUTIVE? By Femi Aborisade, Esq.   In this article, I examine a critical aspect of the controversy that surrounded the delay in the passage of the 2016 Budget because of the importance it has for future budgetary processes. The issue of interest here is: at the backdrop of Ministers who disowned aspects of the 2016 Budget which emanated from their various Ministries, could there a limit to the power of the National Assembly in making changes to the annual budgetary estimates prepared by the Executive and placed before the National Assembly for passage? In other words, does the power of the National Assembly lie in either passing or rejecting the Executive’s budgetary estimates or does the National Assembly have the power to alter, either marginally or in its entirety, the budgetary estimates submitted by the Executive arm of government?

PRESS STATEMENT ON SATANIC AND OUTRAGEOUS INCREASE ON PRICE OF PETROL By Femi Aborisade, Esq. The full deregulation of the pricing of petroleum products which has led to the increase in the prices of petrol from the official rate of N86.50 per litre to between N135 and N145 per litre shows that the Buhari/APC Administration is completely anti-people. The Nigerian people should insist that Buhari and the APC have lost the legitimacy to continue to rule. It is clear that the Buhari/APC administration has been hijacked by the cabal in the oil sector. Contrary to Buhari’s declaration that “I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody”, Buhari has shown that he actually belongs to the oil cabal, the politicians who have investment in the oil sector and Western Imperialism who have hijacked him. Buhari is against the welfare interest of ordinary Nigerians.