Reports emerged Tuesday night that embattled Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, may be trying to lobby members of...
Some senators Monday said the executive arm of government was still suffering from military hangover. The senators said frequent claims that the National Assembly had no...
Some stakeholders in the aviation sector, including members of the National Assembly, are worried that investors from some Middle East countries are expressing interest in the...
The unending frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly may deepen following renewed pressure on the former by the latter to as a matter...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the North East Development Commission Bill into law. In a...
Strong indications emerged Wednesday that the Senate may soon commence moves to scrap some “moribund departments and agencies” of the Federal Government. According to the Deputy...
A former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili has stated that the National Assembly’s lack of “individual and institutional integrity” had prevented it from being an effective...
The Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCIN) has raised alarm over the rising cases of sexual violence against displaced persons in camps across the North-East,...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday confirmed that the amendments to the 1999 Constitution in the last review process had yet to...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has stoked fresh controversy around the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), stating that...
Following a resolution by Nigeria’s Senate summoning the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and her colleague, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, over...
The Presidency has indicated that it would forward a request for intraministerial virement to the National Assembly when the parliament resumed plenary tomorrow. This is to...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, Saturday said that he would stand against the controversial bill seeking to regulate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) in Nigeria because...
With the Nigerian Peace Corps bill recently passed by the National Assembly still awaiting presidential assent to become law, the Lagos State police command, on Friday...
Both chambers of the National Assembly are proposing some changes to budgeting in Nigeria, which may be passed into law before end of the year, and...
There are strong indications that the National Assembly will ratify anti-corruption treaties signed by President Muhammadu Buhari with the government of the United Arab Emirates. To...
Foremost Niger-Delta leader, Edwin Clark, Tuesday vehemently condemned the Biafran agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu, stating that he lacked a proper grasp of the issues and...
Following the controversies that have continued to trail the issue of hate speech over its actual definition, Senator Shehu Sani has asked the National Human Rights...
Senator Soji Akanbi representing Oyo South has said that the failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2014 National Conference report might not be unconnected...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has called on Nigerians to judge the Upper Chamber of the 8th National Assembly...
There are strong indications that the coalition of northern youths will soon start lobbying members of the National Assembly to include referendum in the ongoing constitution...
The 2017 budget proposal of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) amounting to N234 billion has stalled in the National Assembly. The budget was presented by NPA...
Following the alarm raised by Edwin Clark over a letter expressing unease and impatience with the Federal Government’s stated delay in facilitating engagement, NIGER DELTA Revolutionary...
Following widespread backlash over the failure of both houses of the National Assembly to pass some significant amendments which form part of the essence of a...
Feelers from the just concluded retreat of the joint committee of the National Assembly on the review of the 1999 Constitution, which held weekend in Lagos,...
The Senate on Wednesday again warned the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to desist from attacking the National Assembly. It said the...
Lagos lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to sue the National Assembly to the Supreme Court for inserting...
The Supreme Court on Friday, threw out two lawmakers from the National Assembly as it faulted the elections that brought them in. The affected lawmakers; Herman...
Last week’s sharp disagreement between the Presidency and the National Assembly, over the 2017 budget, may take a new twist, as lawmakers have vowed not to...
The Senate is one of the chambers in Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The National Assembly is the nation’s highest law-making body, whose power to...
The Upper Legislative Chamber of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, instructed its committee on Environment to commence investigations into the implementation of the Ogoni cleanup exercise....
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, sought the approval of the National Assembly for $1,492, 400,000.00 loan for 10 states. The loan is part of the...
Members of the National Assembly are currently subscribing to a mortgage facility that will make each lawmaker cough out N2.5m every month, SUNDAY PUNCH has reliably...
Contrary to popular expectations that the 2017 budget will be signed into law soon, Nigerians may have to wait a little more, as the Presidency has...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is to sign the 2017 appropriation bill recently passed by both chambers of the National Assembly tomorrow( Thursday). It was gathered...
Senator Dino Melaye has called on the chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), to try and refrain from talking ‘when drunk’....
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has been asked by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to reject the proposed “wasteful spending” of the National Assembly. In...
The National Assembly on Thursday, passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill. The two chambers approved a total budget of N7,441,175,486,758. The federal legislature also approved $44.50 as...
The National Assembly on Tuesday made an addition of N143 billion to the N7.298 trillion initially proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2017 Appropriation Act....
Over the years, there have been several debates, and agitations over the size of Nigeria’s federal legislative arm, the National Assembly, comprising the Senate and House...
The Senate has perfected plans to withhold the confirmation of nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the lawmakers’ strategies for a showdown with the...
An unimaginable constitutional crisis is looming over the 2017 Budget if the National Assembly fails to pass the budget this week, sources close to the legislature...
Thousands of people from Borno South Senatorial District, on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to protest against the suspension of Senator Ali Ndume by the Senate....
The Federal Government, has revealed that more of its agencies have joined the loot recovery drive. According to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister...
Despite the row brewing between the Nigerian federal executive and its National Assembly, the lawmakers have given approval to the $500 million Eurobond sale for the...
A member of the National Assembly, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, says he will move for a law that will make only career civil servants head government agencies...
Strong indications have emerged that the passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill may suffer a major setback in the National Assembly as forty- four committees of...
Pictures don’t tell lies! President Muhammadu Buhari made a majestic return to office on Monday. It was his first day at work after a 50-day absence...
Senators on the Foreign Affairs committee, were on Wednesday, left speechless during the screening of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee whose name was recently forwarded...
Baring any last minute change, the National Assembly will soon announce plans to grant life pensions to the Senate President, his deputy, as well as the...
