•Protesters at NASS Protesters today returned to the National Assembly, calling on lawmakers to make real-time electronic transmission of election results compulsory in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, 2026. The demonstrators, drawn from civil society groups including Situation Room Nigeria and ActionAid Nigeria, insisted that manual collatio...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja The National Assembly announced yesterday that it would reconvene its plenary session tomorrow, Tuesday, February 17, 2026, cutting short its recess amid indications that lawmakers may review the date set for the 2027 presidential election. Findings by our correspondent showed that the National Assembly may sh...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja Members of the Joint National Assembly Conference Committee constituted to reconcile differences in the Electoral Amendment Bill passed separately by the Senate and the House of Representatives are expected to meet on Monday as lawmakers move to transmit a harmonised version to President Bola Tinubu for assent...
•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,...
•Falana, Utomi and Ezekwesili A national coalition of civic groups and citizens, The Movement for Credible Elections, MCE, has formally called on the leadership of the National Assembly to prioritise far reaching and non-negotiable reforms in the ongoing harmonisation of electoral reform bills ahead of the 2027 elections. MCE made the call yes...
•Lawyers Nigerian lawyers, under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), have urged the National Assembly to reconsider and approve a proposed amendment to the Electoral Amendment Bill that would mandate the electronic transmission of election results from polling units. The call followed the adoption of a report by NBA President Afam...
•Nigerian Senate The National Assembly has introduced a proposal in the ongoing amendment of Electoral law that would give prison inmates in Nigeria the right to vote in elections. The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, gave the hint ahead of resumption of the National Assembly from Christmas break, adding that the proposed law [&...
•Chagoury and Tinubu Lagos State governorship aspirant, Funso Doherty, has called on the National Assembly, particularly the House of Representatives, to investigate the recent conferment of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) on Mr Gilbert Chagoury by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, reportedly in connection with Chagoury’s birth...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has released to the public certified true copies of the four tax reform Acts passed by the National Assembly and signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as part of efforts to douse growing tension over allegations that the laws were altered. In directing the release of the certified [&hellip...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja As part of the clamour for local government reform in the country, the National Assembly is proposing a uniform four-year renewable tenure for elected local government officials across the country. The proposed law sets a minimum age of 25 for those willing to contest local government chairmanship election, an...
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