The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has provided an explanation for why the age qualification for the Senate and governorship was retained. As it pertains to...
Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for what he considered an insult on the National Assembly, linking it to the...
The senate has asked Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to name corrupt National Assembly members. On Tuesday, Jega said the...
Prolonged approvals from the National Assembly for non-oil export incentives under the revised Export Expansion Grant (EEG) scheme, also known as the Export Credit Certificate has...
The National Commandant, Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Dickson Akoh, has reignited hope that, despite its setbacks, the Peace Corps bill may still be assented to....
The Presidency has commenced the vetting of the details of the 2018 Budget bill passed as the National Assembly. The lawmakers passed a budget of N9,120,334,988,225...
The House of Representatives said on Sunday that the National Assembly did not expect a post-budget dispute with President Muhammadu Buhari over the 2018 budget. The...
Ex-Chair of House of Representatives Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has denied involvement in, and knowledge of N17 billion bribe-for-budget as claimed by ex-finance minister, Dr....
The on-going investigation by the National Assembly into the April 2018 invasion of the Senate by hoodlums may have claimed its first casualty, as the Inspector-General...
The presidency has confirmed that the National Assembly has now transmitted the 2018 budget to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s harsh comments on members of the National Assembly. The Chairman, House Committee on Media and...
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said the National Assembly was yet to transmit the recently passed 2018 Appropriation Bill to...
The House of Representatives yesterday declined comment on the ongoing controversy over the fate of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), which had since been passed...
The 2018 budget is set to face further delay despite its passage by the National Assembly yesterday. Daily Trust correspondents report that after the passage of...
The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the 2018 Appropriations Bill after more than six months it was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari presented a N8.612...
Except the National Assembly include the payment of royalties to oil producing communities in Petroleum Host Communities Development Trust unrest in the Niger Delta will persist....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has assured Nigerians that the 8th Senate, particularly the House of Representatives, would ensure the passage...
The senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis rocking...
Security has been tightened at the National Assembly in anticipation of the resumption of Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central. On Thursday, a High Court...
Awka, the capital of Anambra State witnessed a protest on Friday by scores of youths against the Nigerian Senate over its frequent invitations sent to the...
Shehu Sani, Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, has responded to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s tirade against him and the other senators representing...
Two Lawyers, Monday Ubani and John Nwokwu, have dragged the Senate and House of Representative, as well as the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) before a Federal...
There are strong indications that the N8.612 trillion 2018 budget christened “Budget of Consolidation’’ may suffer longer delay as the National Assembly (NASS) awaits further submissions...
The Presidency has presented documents and a letter from the United States Government to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters on why it decided...
There was unusual security presence at the National Assembly yesterday, as combined team of combat-ready security operatives drawn from the Department of State Services (DSS), anti-riot...
Barring last minute changes, the National Assembly would receive the report on the 2018 budget from its joint Committee on Appropriation tomorrow (Wednesday), The PUNCH learnt...
With angry members of the National Assembly allegedly collecting signatures to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari for the legislative bypass in the ongoing $496m Tucano aircrafts deal,...
After almost 18 years of been in the woods without clear consideration by successive governments and the legislature, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally received the harmonised...
The Senate, on Thursday, summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before a joint session of both chambers of the National Assembly, to address them on the...
The festering crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly may have deepened. There were signs yesterday that the Senate may have resolved to...
Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly are set to take on the Executive over the withdrawal of $496 million (N151.4 billion) from the Excess...
The planned passage of the 2018 budget today (Tuesday) by the National Assembly is no longer feasible. Investigations on Monday indicated that the N8.612tn budget would...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...
There are indications that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may enter into alliance with some of the opposition political parties ahead of the 2019 general...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has demanded for retraction of a story by an online news portal Premium Times, The online portal...
Nigeria’s National Assembly has paid out a total N6.6billion for purchase of exotic cars for its members, PREMIUM TIMES and UDEME can authoritatively report today. Official...
INVESTIGATIONS by Saturday Vanguard have revealed that last Wednesday’s invasion of the National Assembly was a scripted plot to force the reinstatement of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has argued that a “power vacuum” exists in the country as a result of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London where...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says President Muhammadu Buhari will seek the approval of the National Assembly, as...
Months after a controversial bill by the National Assembly to further regulate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria received widespread public backlash and suffered derailment, the federal...
The National Assembly may reject the approval of another N4.2 trillion loan requested by President Muhammadu Buhari last month. It was learnt that the current request...
THE battle over the appointment of a substantive Chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is not yet over between contending forces in government...
The body in charge of determining salaries and allowances for public office holders, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Wednesday said only the National Assembly Service...
The National Assembly on Wednesday finally passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) after years of failed attempts. The bill was passed by the Senate after...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has asserted that the National Assembly would not abandon Zonal Intervention Projects, criticism notwithstanding. Dogara said this...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has urged the nation’s judiciary to adhere strictly to the principles of separation of powers as enshrined...
A coalition of over 400 civil society organisations under the aegis of Transition Monitoring Group, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to...
The Federal Government on Wednesday asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to authorise the forfeiture of 22 houses allegedly belonging to the Deputy Senate President,...
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) held a meeting on Wednesday. APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, was at the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given ministries, department and agencies till Friday to submit details of their budget estimates to the National Assembly. This is coming five...
