The House of Representatives is set to consider a bill seeking to create three additional states in the South-West region. The bill, which has been listed to be brought for first reading before the House of Representatives, is sponsored by the lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Osun State, Mr. Oluwole Oke, reports Vangua...
The House of Representatives today, Tuesday, February 13, asked the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court Abuja and the National Judicial Council to suspend the ongoing recruitment process for vacant positions in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory until adherence to the Federal Character principle and quota system is ensured. This dec...
•House of Reps A bill for an Act seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to change the educational qualification for elections into certain political offices, has been stepped down by the leave of the House of Representatives. Standing in the name of Adewunmi Onanuga, the proposed legislation aimed at pegging minimum qualification for elections...
•Abbas House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas yesterday swore in 12 of the 15 members-elect who were presented their certificates of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday. The 12 new members won last Saturday’s by-elections and court-ordered rerun polls to fill vacant seats in the Green Chamber, r...
The House of Representatives has resolved to probe alleged certificate racketeering by Nigerian students in collusion with some officials of government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs). This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa) at plenary in Abuja, reports NAN. Presenting the motion, Fulata said th...
A bill for the amendment of the Electoral Act to provide for the conduct of the general election in one day was yesterday passed for ‘Second Reading’ in the House of Representatives. The intention of the bill is for presidential, governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and Houses of Assembly elections to hold in one day, […]...
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun; Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso and Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Zacch Adedeji will today brief members of the House of Representatives on the state of the economy and monetary policies. Confirming an earlier repo...
•House of Reps House of Representarives has set December 2025 as deadline for the completion of the alteration of the 1999 Constitution ( as amended). The deputy speaker, Benjamin Kalu, who stated this, yesterday, at the inaugural meeting of the House Special Committee on Constitution Review, said this is to ensure that the exercise does [&hel...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has ordered the Federal Fire Service to refund the sum of N1.484 billion within Seven days to the covers of the Federal Government being the intervention funds it received for the COVID-19 epidemic and failed to account for it. The Chairman of the committee, Hon. […]
•House of Reps The increasing security challenges and consistent call for community-led policing structure in the country, including foreign policy have been highlighted to take the front burner for deliberations at the floor of the House of Representatives as the Green chamber resumes for full legislative business today. This was disclosed by...
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