•House of Representatives A member of the House of Representatives, Bayo Balogun, has said that the green chamber is advancing a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to make the Court of Appeal the final arbiter on governorship election petitions in Nigeria. Balogun, the Chairman of House Committee on the Independent National Electoral ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has proposed a single day for the conduct of the five elections in 2027. If the proposal is upheld, the reviewed Electoral Act would empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to simultaneously conduct the presidential, senatorial, House of Representatives, governorship a...
•National Assembly Complex, Abuja A brewing crisis is threatening to paralyse Nigeria’s legislative process as the House of Representatives has suspended consideration of all Senate-sponsored bills, citing prolonged delays in the Red Chamber’s concurrence to over 140 bills passed by the lower chamber. The move, fuelled by accusations of Senate...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution is considering about 46 requests for the creation of new states and 117 requests for new local government areas across the 36 states of the federation. The House Committee is also considering two requests for boundary adjustment as well as [...
•Sole Administrator Ibas (left) at the Senate ad-hoc committee hearing The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Rivers has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Sole Administration of the state, Vice Admiral Ibok-Eke Ibas (retd.), to submit a breakdown of major items in the 2025 N1.48 trillion Appropriation Bill. The Chairman of the commit...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to remit N3.64 trillion to the federal government within 14 days, representing 70 percent of the apex bank’s N5.2 trillion outstanding operating surplus for the years 2016 to 2022. The directive followed a hearing held by a Joint Committee of [...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has announced that zonal public hearings will be held in 12 states across Nigeria from July 11 to July 20, 2025. Deputy Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Committee, Benjamin Kalu, disclosed this during a meeting with consultants [&hel...
The House of Representatives, based on information received via diplomatic channels in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have cleared the Republic of Togo of allegations that its universities were issuing fake certificates to students, even as it has fixed July 10, 2025, to investigate universities from the Benin Republic. The...
•Tonnie Iredia Former Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Professor Tonnie Iredia, has berated governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and other political office holders for defecting to new parties and yet hold on to the seats they won on the platforms of their original political parties. Iredia ...
•Students writing WAEC exam late in the night The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) following shocking reports that some students were made to sit for their West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) around midnight in parts of Nigeria. Chairman of the Hou...
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