•Nigerian Senate In the previous article I wrote regarding popular crossdresser and transgender Bobrisky, real name; Idris Okuneye, I suggested that if there is a way her antics have proved useful, it is how much they manage to reveal us to us. Well, Bobrisky did it again when she became a topic at the National […]
•Atiku A former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has written to the National Assembly, requesting an amendment to the Constitution to allow for a six-year single term for the President and state governors. In a memorandum to the Senate Committee on Cons...
•CBN Governor Yemi Cardoso and Senate The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has decided to maintain its limit on Ways and Means Advances to the federal government at 5 per cent for the fiscal years 2024-2025, despite a recent bill passed by the National Assembly that proposed increasing this limit to 10 per cent. Ways […]
•National Assembly complex, Abuja Both chambers of the National Assembly have shifted their resumption earlier fixed for September 17, to September 24. The Clerk to the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze, and the Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Akin Rotimi, disclosed this in separate statements in Abuja. Akubueze in an internal memorandu...
•National Assembly The 10th National Assembly has passed several bills since its inauguration in June 2023. However, some sensitive or controversial bills remain pending, awaiting public hearings and passages, reports Daily Trust. As federal lawmakers resume from recess on September 17, this report highlights the bills. Bill on a six-year sing...
•Akpabio, Tinubu and Abbas There was no approval by the National Assembly before the procurement of the new presidential jet for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, findings have revealed. Late in June, an online news platform reported that the Nigerian government had acquired an Airbus A330 aircraft from a German bank. According to PREMIUM TIMES, th...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio said today, Monday, July 29, that notable barriers deeply rooted in culture, religion, economy, and society have been against the passage of gender-related bills by the National Assembly. Speaking at the opening of a two-day workshop on gender-responsive budgeting and the role of the legislature in ad...
The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Examination today arrested four representatives of the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The officials arrested were, Amos Josiah Dangut, Head of National Office, WAEC Nigeria, who represented the Registrar; Angus Okeleze, Senior Deputy Registrar; Victor Odu, Acting Director of Finance; Se...
•Tinubu The Senate and the House of Representatives today speedily passed the National Minimum Wage Act 2019 (Amendment Bill). The bill, which scaled second and third readings at both legislative chambers in the National Assembly, just minutes after it was transmitted by President Bola Tinubu, was instantly passed separately by the red and gre...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today transmitted a national minimum wage bill to the House of Representatives in the National Assembly for consideration and passage. The president and the leadership of the Organised Labour had last Thursday agreed on ₦70,000 as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers, reports Channels TV. Information Minister...

