The Senate will, upon full resumption from its Yuletide recess, prioritise the consideration and passage of the Constitution Review Bills, amendments to the Electoral Act, and this year’s Appropriation Bill. Although the Senate is scheduled to reconvene tomorrow, Tuesday, January 27, plenary proceedings are expected to be suspended in honour o...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja As part of the clamour for local government reform in the country, the National Assembly is proposing a uniform four-year renewable tenure for elected local government officials across the country. The proposed law sets a minimum age of 25 for those willing to contest local government chairmanship election, an...
•Tinubu and Nigerian Constitution President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent assurÂance that he was comÂmitted to the current review of the Nigerian ConstiÂtution may have inspired opÂtimism in some Nigerians but quite a number of others still react to the ongoing review with cynicism. The outcome of past reviews which failed to address critical agi...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will today hold a public hearing on the proposed amendment to the 1999 Constitution. The hearing, originally scheduled earlier this month but postponed following the national mourning for former President Muhammadu Buhari, marks a major step in the ongoing efforts to amend the constitution...
•Abbas Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, has unveiled the reforms being proposed in the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution to stakeholders in the southern region of Nigeria. The reforms, according to him, include gender inclusion in politics and governance, youth and women empowerment, and constitutional roles for t...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution is considering about 46 requests for the creation of new states and 117 requests for new local government areas across the 36 states of the federation. The House Committee is also considering two requests for boundary adjustment as well as [...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has announced that zonal public hearings will be held in 12 states across Nigeria from July 11 to July 20, 2025. Deputy Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Committee, Benjamin Kalu, disclosed this during a meeting with consultants [&hel...
•House of Representatives The Constitution Review Committee of the House of Representatives is set to meet with the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) on July 23, 2025, to present bills currently under consideration and seek their support for passage. The committee will also meet with the Speakers of the 36 State Houses of Assembly in a […]...
The United Kingdom branch of the Commonwealth Parliament Association, today, called for special seats for women at the National and State Houses of Assembly in Nigeria in the ongoing constitution amendment process. The leader of the delegation, Kate Ofunne Osamor, who pushed for consideration and passage of a Bill seeking special seats for wom...
•Dr Bature AbdulAzi National Patriotic Elders Forum (NPEF) has called on Nigerians to support the review of the nation’s constitution. Making this assertion yesterday in Kano, the NPEF chairman, Ambassador Dr Bature AbdulAzi while reading a communiqué before the press in Kano, stressed the need for the committee to carry the elders along in th...
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