•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has directed the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the implementation of the new incremental tariff on Band A customers. The lower chamber agreed upon this at the house resolution during a plenary session today, reports Channels TV. According to them, the resoluti...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will today hold a national dialogue on State Policing. Vice President Kashmir Shettima is expected to lead two former Nigerian leaders and top security chiefs to the one-day event, which will hold at the Abuja Continental Hotel, reports The Nation. Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives minority caucus, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) caucus, have disowned the Coalition of Opposition lawmakers in the House. The minority caucus, in a statement signed signed by its leaders, including Kingsley Chinda, minority leader; Ali Madaki,deputy leader; Ali Isah J.C, mi...
•Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere The spokesperson of opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, today, Friday, March 22, accused members of three Rivers State House of Assembly of trying to plunge the state into a major crisis by their actions. Ugochinyere said the attempt by the Rivers lawmakers to override the suppo...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today, Wednesday, March 20, passed into law an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances, and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in the country which provides a total monthly package of N5,385,047.26 for the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Under the bill which was submitted to the House ...
•House of Representatives A bill seeking to grant five-month leave to persons who lose their spouse has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Honourable Saidu Abdullahi, the bill seeks to enable the widow or widower mourn the deceased spouse and make immediate arrangements for the challenges ahead, reports Channel...
The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, to immediately halt the signing and implementation of a trade partnership with the United Kingdom (UK), which allows UK lawyers to practice within Nigeria. A motion by 49 lawmakers today, pointed to recent reports and public outcry, over an alleged e...
The House of Representatives has called for a review of the 2024 budget projections owing to the free fall of the naira in the past few months. Rising from plenary session yesterday, the lawmakers adopted a motion on matter of public urgent importance titled, “Need to evaluate the implications of the current exchange rates on […]
The House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Population to investigate how the N200 billion was spent on the suspended 2023 population and housing census. The committee is to report back within four weeks for further legislative action, reports Daily Trust. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep Clement Akanni at the [&hel...
•House of Reps Members of the House of Representatives today tasked the federal government on the need to accede to clarion call by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) by providing living wage for workers across the country. This is as the lawmakers warned that, “unless very immediate and pragmatic steps are taken to improve the […]
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