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Fubara, and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, has suffered another setback as two more members of the State House of Assembly have withdrawn their support for the process.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 ...
•Speaker Amaewhule and Governor Fubara Rivers State lawmakers yesterday disagreed with Governor Siminalayi Fubara on his claims that some elders were frustrating his meeting with them (lawmakers). Assembly Speaker Martins Amaewhule, who spoke in Port Harcourt, the state capital, described as disparaging the governor’s assertion that Federal Ca...
Barely two months after the suspension of emergency rule in Rivers State and the reinstatement of democratic structures, tensions have resurfaced between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and members of the State House of Assembly led by Speaker Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule. During its 31st Legislative Sitting, the House condemned the vandalisation of ...
A coalition of reform-minded legislators and former members of the House of Representatives, under the aegis of House to the Rescue (HTR), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure full electronic collation and transmission of results in the 2027 general elections to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy. In a statement ...
•Nigerian Senate chamber The Senate has resolved to investigate the ongoing delineation exercise conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Warri Federal Constituency, Delta State, following concerns of alleged marginalisation and irregularities raised in a petition before the upper chamber today. The resolution follo...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja Ahead of today’s plenary resumption, a planned protest over poor welfare and alleged management neglect has split staff at the National Assembly. But the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has distanced itself from the action, warning members against participating, reports The Guardian. The pro...
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