•Tobacco The Africa Centre for Tobacco Industry Monitoring and Policy Research (ATIM) has urged the National Assembly to urgently reconsider the proposed amendments to Nigeria’s National Tobacco Control Act 2015, saying the so-called “Tobacco Harm Reduction” provisions sought to be inserted in the Act endanger the country’s hard-fought tobacco...
•President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Wale Oke The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Wale Oke, has criticised the National Assembly over the proposed legislation seeking to prohibit preaching in commercial buses, declaring that Christians would continue to evangelise despite the measure. Oke, who ...
•SERAP logo, Senate President Akpabio and House Speaker Abbas Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to immediately withdraw the Nigeria Data Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2026. The organisation warned that it would insti...
•Presidential Villa (Aso Rock) Residents and businesses in several parts of the Federal Capital Territory, including the Presidential Villa, National Assembly and Supreme Court, will experience a two-day power outage this weekend following planned maintenance by the Federal Capital Development Authority. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Comp...
•Ireti Kingibe Senator Ireti Kingibe, who represents the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the Senate, has criticised the National Assembly for what she described as its failure to effectively serve as a check on the Executive arm of government. Speaking during an interview on Arise TV yesterday, Kingibe argued that the legislature has increa...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja Likely retaliatory measures to be taken by Nigeria against South Africa over anti-migrant actions fall within the remit of the National Assembly, the federal government said last night. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, said so far, the executive arm is actively engaging South Afr...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja The Movement for Credible Elections, MCE, made up of eminent personalities, has called on the National Assembly to review the 2026 electoral act, as a matter of urgency. MCE, in collaboration with June 12 Democracy Movement of Nigeria, made the call in a Communique issued today, at the end of a […]
A group of young Nigerians today staged a protest at the National Assembly, urging the federal government to take immediate and decisive measures to address the worsening insecurity across the country. The protest, tagged “Nigerians Unite Against Terror,” commenced at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and ended at the National Assembly com...
•Retired police officers protest in Abuja Retired Police Officers Forum of Nigeria has given President Bola Ahmed Tinubu till June 19, 2026, to assent to the Police Exit Bill, which has been passed by the National Assembly, for them to exit from the Contributory Pension Scheme(CPS). They noted that the National Assembly had passed the [&hellip...
•National Assembly complex, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday sought to re-arraign three senior officials of the National Assembly over an alleged N337 million fraud before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Jikwoyi, Abuja. The defendants are the Director of Public Affairs in the Directo...
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