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The Minister of Works, Power, Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), cannot dictate to the National Assembly on what to do and what not to do on the budget, saying it is an organ vested with powers to either increase or reduce the budget size, says the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim on Sunday. The Senator, who spoke with journalists on the sidelines of the fifth edition of the University of Ilorin’s Students’ Union Leadership Summit held in Ilorin, said it was unbecoming of the minister, who he described as an appointee of the president to criticise the legislature. According to him, “As far as appropriation bill is concerned, Fashola cannot dictate to the National Assembly on what to do and what not to do.” He said: “It is an organ vested with powers to either increase or reduce the budget size.” The Minister of Works castigate the slashing the total estimate allocated to his ministry in...

London firefighters battled a large fire in a building in Camden Lock Market in the early hours of Monday. The London Fire  Brigade said it had also sent 10 fire engines to the scene, near a nightclub and a covered market.  There were no reports of any casualties. “The first, second and third floors, plus the roof, of a building within the market are alight,” the London Fire Brigade said on Twitter. “The Brigade’s 999 Control Officers have taken multiple calls to the highly visible blaze and people are asked to avoid the area”. “The fire was moving very fast,” witness Joan Ribes, 24, told the Press Association. He said the fire “was flying through the air to the surrounding areas”. “People were watching, but we were scared the building could explode at any time since there are restaurants with kitchens nearby,” he said.