•Nigerian Senate and late Buhari The National Assembly has suspended legislative activities in the Senate and the House of Representatives until Tuesday, July 22, 2025. The postponement of plenary in both legislative chambers was announced by the Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, in a statement today. According to Ogunlana, the ...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja A senior official of the National Assembly, Ifeoma Ofili, has made damning allegations of widespread corruption among federal lawmakers, accusing them of bribery, manipulation of legislative reports, and diversion of staff entitlements. Ofili, a director at the House of Representatives and former Clerk of the ...
•The protesters A group of legal practitioners under the aegis of Public Interest Lawyers on Monday staged a protest at the National Assembly, demanding the immediate suspension, investigation, and prosecution of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed. The protest, l...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday in Abuja, began the sales of nomination and expression of interest forms to aspirants for the forthcoming National Assembly bye-elections. The election slated for August 16 in 12 states, is to fill legislative vacant seats due to the deaths or resignations of lawmakers who left office to contest f...
•Tinubu A recent survey conducted by an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan opinion research think-tank known as Africa Polling Institute (API) showed that between 79% to 83% of Nigerians expressed little or no trust in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Executive, National Assembly, and the Judicial arms of government. The report, laun...
•Nigerian workers Nigerian workers, under the aegis of The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), have vowed to resist any attempt by the National Assembly to remove labour matters — including the minimum wage — from the exclusive legislative list of the Federal Government to the concurrent list, where individual states would determine their workers’ ...
•Abbas, Tinubu and Akpabio The Senate and the House of Representatives have, for the second time, extended the implementation of the capital component of the 2024 budget to December 31, 2025, sparking renewed criticism against President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly. Economists, financial experts, and the Organised Private Sector have ...
•Tinubu (L) at the National Assembly today The National Assembly has formally adopted June 12 as the day for the President of Nigeria to address a joint session of the legislature. The decision was taken today during a special Democracy Day sitting at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, where President Bola Tinubu delivered a […]
The National Assembly Complex was placed under tight security on Thursday morning ahead of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s scheduled address to a joint session in commemoration of Democracy Day. As early as 6 am, a significant deployment of security operatives had taken positions across the sprawling complex, Personnel of the Nigeria Police Forc...
•Nigerian Senate The lifespan of the capital vote component of the federal government’s 2024 budget is set for extension. Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele gave this hint yesterday, saying this is necessary to ensure full implementation, reports The Nation. Bamidele said: “We have to sit and assess the full implementation of the 2024 budget. “We ...

