•Policemen The National Assembly has said that the bill supporting the establishment of state police will be transmitted to President Bola Tinubu for assent as the number of states that have supported its constitutional amendment has risen to 28. The development was revealed in a signed statement by the Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru [...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja The National Assembly has proposed 74 additional seats for women in the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as three reserved seats in each state House of Assembly, to increase women’s representation in Nigeria’s legislature. Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, disclosed this today at the 2026 Law Week o...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja Following the approval of the constitutional amendment bill on the establishment of state police by no fewer than 30 State Houses of Assembly, Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the National Assembly has until December 2026 to complete the remaining legislative steps. Bamidele disclosed this yesterday w...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former vice president and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the National Assembly not to approve President Bola Tinubu’s proposed external loans until the President publishes full details of the projects to be funded. Atiku said the lawmakers must not approve “a single dol...
•Nigerian Senate Senate President Godswill Akpabio revealed today that several lawmakers declined to shake hands with him upon arrival at the National Assembly, citing heightened fears surrounding reported cases of the Ebola virus in the country. Akpabio disclosed the experience during a Senate debate regarding a motion to declare a national s...
•Mobile Police Force The Presidential Working Group has said the National Policing Bill is almost ready for transmission to the National Assembly. It would transmit the National Policing Bill to the National Assembly within two weeks, reports Channels TV. Chief of Staff to the President and Chairman of the Working Group, Femi Gbajabiamila, sta...
•Oyo State Assembly ‎The Oyo State House of Assembly has passed the constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish State Police Services and is set to transmit its resolution to the National Assembly. ‎The bill was passed for third reading during plenary today after the House constituted itself into a Committee of the Whole and considered ...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja The National Assembly will soon deepen the digitisation of parliamentary records by translating Nigerian laws into Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and other local languages to expand public access to legislative information. Executive Secretary, National Assembly Library Trust Fund, Mr Henry Nwawuba, disclosed this while ...
•Tinubu and AAC logo A registered political party in Nigeria, the African Action Congress has dragged President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly and the Attorney General of the Federation before the Federal High Court in Abuja over the President’s alleged failure to notify the National Assembly before embarking on a month-long vacation in Eu...
•Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello As the 2027 general elections approach, children of prominent Nigerian politicians are featuring in races for seats in the National Assembly. According to an infographic published by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting in September 2026, some children of prominent politicians were identified among those c...

