Leadership (Abuja)  Nigeria: Building NNPC/NASS Synergy   At a
critical time when the executive and the legislature seem to be
at loggerheads over a number of contentious issues ranging from
budgetary allocation, budget implementation, legislative
oversight and the execution of constituency project among other
raging issues, there seems to be a determined effort by some
forward looking bureaucrats as well as legislator to move in the
opposite direction by strengthening the ties that bind the two
arms of government, thus ensuring co-operation, mutual accord,
constructive dialogue as well as purposeful and effective
conduct of governmental activities for the overall benefit of
the Nigerian people.  While the headlines have been awash with
instances of executive-legislative standoff and confrontation
ranging from the Arunma Oteh saga, to the fuel subsidy
imbroglio, the Faroukgate scandal, the BPE/Onagoruwa face-off
etc, it is actually in the committee rooms and inner sanctums of
the National Assembly that a lot