•House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen House of Representatives yesterday disagreed over a proposed one-year tuition fee waiver for students in federal tertiary institutions, as Minority Leader Fred Agbedi, challenged the procedure adopted by Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu. Agbedi faulted Kalu for inviting the House Leader to speak on the pro...
•Speaker Tajudeen Abbas Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has warned lawmakers against allowing 2027 election campaigns to distract them from their legislative duties. He gave the warning yesterday as the House resumed plenary at the National Assembly, Abuja, after its annual recess, urging members to attend plenary and ...
There is chaos in the Edo State House of Assembly over plans by lawmakers to repeal the 2023 law granting them financial autonomy. Assembly workers said repealing the law would reduce their salaries and could lead to sackings, reports The Nation. It was reported that Majority Leader Sunday Ojezele has been pencilled in to present […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has confirmed Abayomi Sunday Fasina as a non-career ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, despite opposition from some lawmakers and recent protests by civil society organisations over his nomination. The confirmation followed the consideration and adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Foreign A...
•Tinubu and House of Representatives The House of Representatives was thrown into a rowdy session today as lawmakers debated a motion on the poor implementation of the budget and delays in the release of funds to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The motion, sponsored by a lawmaker representing Abia State, Hon. Mascot Ikwechegh, sou...
The National Assembly yesterday approved a N1.5 trillion budget proposal for the Nigerian Army for the 2026 fiscal year, pledging to support timely release of funds to ensure effective implementation. The approval followed a joint budget defence session in Abuja by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Army, where the Chief of ...
•Omoyele Sowore and Nigerian Senate Human rights activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that 90 per cent of federal lawmakers and other elected officials would not be elected if elections in Nigeria were conducted transparently. Sowore made the remark while reacting to the controversy trailing the amendments to the Electoral Act,...
•Executive Director of PLAC, Clement Nwankwo The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), Clement Nwankwo, has urged Nigerian lawmakers to respect citizens’ views in the ongoing review of the Electoral Act, warning that legislators must not “act as overlords”. Nwankwo, in an interview on Channels Television last nigh...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara The impeachment move against Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, has suffered another setback as two more members of the State House of Assembly have withdrawn their support for the process. They called for a peaceful resolution of the political crisis in the state, reports Channels ...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the federal government of marginalising governors, a move it claimed is forcing politicians to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP spokesman Ini Ememobong said this last night on Channels Television. “When you [reference to President Bola Tinubu] win an election with less than 40 ...
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