•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will on December 10 and 11 vote on the items in the ongoing review of the 1999 constitution. Deputy Speaker Benjamin Okezie Kalu announced this to members at the plenary today. Kalu, who is also the chairman of the House Committee on Constitution Review, equally informed members that [&hel...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has summoned the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), the Budget Office of the Federation, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Power, and th...
•Tajudeen Abbas Nigeria is facing a “coordinated and deeply troubling escalation of violence” aimed at destabilising the country, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen said today as lawmakers dedicated a rare special plenary session exclusively to national security. Declaring that the House had suspended all other ma...
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee probing the economic, regulatory and security implications of cryptocurrency adoption and Point-of-Sale (POS) operations, Hon. Olufemi Bamisile, has raised serious concern over the rising wave of fraud within Nigeria’s POS sector and the spread of unlicensed crypto activities among ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters has issued a firm directive to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ordering the immediate payment of all outstanding insurance claims owed to National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members injured or killed while serving as ad hoc staff during ...
The House of Representatives received a petition today urging a review of the South East slot in the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), currently occupied by Sophia Mbakwe. The petition, submitted by Ezi Umuada Igbo, a prominent socio-cultural association, allegedly claimed that Mbakwe, who is from a non-Sou...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has commenced an investigation into all security intervention funds released by the federal government from 2020 till date, with a vow to promote transparency, accountability, and prudent use of resources meant for national security. Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Expenditure of A...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on University Education has expressed concern over the exit of teaching and non-teaching members of staff from the nation’s university system. The chairman of the committee, Rep. Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa) raised the concern in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday after the ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has reversed its earlier decision to suspend plenary for a week until local contractors owed various sums of money by the federal government are paid. The lawmakers had today during an executive session expressed displeasure at the poor implementation of the capital component of the 2024 a...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives experienced a rowdy session today following a motion on the alleged illegal and criminal allocation of federal government lands at the International Trade Fair Complex in Lagos. The motion, sponsored by Representative Ademorin Kuye, proposed that an investigation be carried out by an ad ho...

