Depositors with N5 million and above in the recently revoked Heritage Bank have called on the National Assembly to urgently intervene in their plight, urging the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to reconsider its decision. Many of the affected customers said they have been thrown into severe financial distress, with their businesses and livelihoo...
•Nigerian Senate The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) says the 10th National Assembly has less than 10 percent of female membership, describing it as embarrassing to Nigeria. The NILDS representative, Titilayo Daniel, made the position in Sagamu, Ogun State, at a Town Hall meeting on female legislators constitu...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja There are indications of a spirited move by the National Assembly to fast track the necessary legislative process that would end the power of state independent national electoral commissions to handle local government elections. It was gathered that the brains behind the process hope to expeditiously work on t...
The pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has lauded the National Assembly for waking up to the reality of the need to cut costs of governance and restructure the political system in Nigeria. The organisation, in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, was however quick to ad...
•National Assembly complex Tension is brewing in the National Assembly, following plans by the Senate to give a concurrence to a controversial bill on extension of retirement age for civil servants in the nation’s Parliament and across the 36 State Houses of Assembly. Staff who are apprehensive said attempts by the Senate to pass a […]...
•Obasa In response to the growing threats of kidnapping and other forms of insecurity in Nigeria, the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the National Assembly to commence urgent constitutional amendment to allow for the creation of state police. At a plenary session today presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, [&helli...
•National Assembly Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to reduce the National Assembly budget of N344.85 billion to reflect the current economic realities in the country and cut the cost of governance. SERAP urged...
The Senate President, Godswil Akpabio and the Speaker of the House of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, yesterday, expressed concerns over the country’s high debt burden. The duo, who spoke at the at the presentation of the 2024 Appropriation Bill, by President Bola Tinubu, to a joint session of the National Assembly, said efforts ...
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