•Flood Members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked against the call to remove N300 billion from the Federation Account to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the flood disaster in Maiduguri, Borno State. The lawmakers expressed the objection during the debate on a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Hon. Amos ...
•House of Representatives As the House of Representatives resumes from its annual recess tomorrow, Tuesday, September 24, key issues, including the 2025 Appropriation Bill from President Bola Tinubu, the constitution review exercise, and electoral reforms, among others, would be accorded legislative priorities. It was earlier reported that law...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives yesterday quizzed management teams of various Deposit Banks over the non-remittance of multi-million naira commission accrued from Value Added Tax (VAT) paid through REMITA platform from 2015 to 2022. Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon . Bamidele Salam who presided over the ...
•Nigerian Senate A performance report by OrderPaper, Nigeria’s parliamentary monitoring organisation, has revealed that 15 senators and 149 members of the House of Representatives did not sponsor any bills in the first year of the 10th National Assembly. The report, released in Abuja by Oke Epia, Executive Director of OrderPaper, highlighted a...
The House of Representatives has committed to addressing the challenges that are preventing Nigerian tertiary institutions from accessing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) allocations available to them, reports Daily Trust. During a recent visit to Kaduna State, the House Committee on TETFund and Other Services disclosed that over N5...
•Kalu and Otti The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said the incumbent governor of Abia State would be the last the Labour Party would produce to govern the state. Kalu made this disclosure in a video that went viral today while he was addressing the chances of his party, the […]
The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to constitute a Sub-Committee from within to launch a separate investigation into the desirability or otherwise of continuing with the Molecular Power System (MPS) oil theft detection system. Chairman, Special Committee on Crude Oil Theft, Hon. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa disclosed this in Abuja while ad...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives will on resumption from the 8-weeks annual recess commence debate on the general principles of a bill seeking to conduct elections to the offices of President, State Governors, National Assembly, State Houses of Assembly and Local Government Area Councils simultaneously. According to the b...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has dissolved the current ad-hoc Joint Downstream and Midstream Committee investigating the importation of adulterated petroleum products, the non-availability of crude oil for domestic refineries, and other energy security issues. A statement by the House Spokesman, Rep. Akin Rotimi said ...
•House of Representatives It was a rowdy scene at the emergency plenary session called by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, today. The debate centred on a bill seeking to raise the Ways and Means cash advances from the Central Bank of Nigeria from five per cent to 10 per cent. This […]

