Members of the legislative arm in Egor local government area in Edo State on Wednesday impeached the chairman, Ms. Eghe Ogbemudia, over alleged padding of the...
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said on Thursday he was not behind the suspension of the Senator representing Bauchi Central, Abdul Ningi. Ningi was suspended by...
The Senate has hinted at a possible recall of Senator Abdul Ningi from his three-month suspension. This was revealed on Friday by the President of the...
Suspended Senator representing Bauchi Central of Bauchi State, Abdul Ahmed Ningi, has written the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Senate leadership demanding that the suspension...
A former representative of Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, has alleged that national budgets have become a means for perpetrating...
All may not have been heard about the ongoing impasse at the Senate over allegation of padding of the 2024 budget made by Sen Abdul Ahmad...
Former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Okoi Obono-Obla, has blamed the padding of budgets by Nigerian legislators on the excessive demands and undue pressure from the...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Saturday, condemned the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi over the alleged padding of the 2024 budget to the tune of...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop meddling in the affairs of the National Assembly. The party also...
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election Atiku Abubakar, has called for a comprehensive investigation into allegations...
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South) has responded to the call by the Peoples Democratic...
The former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has opened up on the meaning of ‘budget padding’ and how...
The dust raised by allegation of budget padding by suspended Senator Abdul Ningi does not appear to settle any time soon. As the Peoples Democratic Party...
Following suspension of the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central, Senator Abdul Ningi, for three months for alleging that the National Assembly padded the 2024 N28.7tn budget, the...
Abdul Ningi, the senator representing Bauchi Central, has resigned from his position as the chairman of the Northern Senators Forum. Ripples Nigeria reports that Ningi was...
Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) has insisted on his claim that over N3.7 trillion was not linked to any project in the 2024 budget. It...
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has described the allegation of padding of the 2024 national budget to the tune of N3 trillion as the alarming and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State on Sunday accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of budget padding. In a statement issued by its Assistant Publicity Secretary...
Prof Pat Utomi Sunday claimed he had evidence of budget padding by the National Assembly. Speaking at a Channels TV programme Sunday night, he said members...
Issues of budget padding, and constituency projects have resurfaced, making the news as another circle of budget submission, defence and approval plays out between the executive...
Minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, has responded to a statement by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) claiming he inflated contracts awarded by his...
The Presidency on Friday said the court judgment on budget padding aligned with the present administration’s posture against corruption. A Federal High Court in Lagos had...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct security and anti-corruption agencies to forward to him reports of their...
Senate committee on Power, on Monday, questioned the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shahuru and the Permanent Secretary, Frank Edozie, over...
It is another budget season, and lawmakers from both chambers of the National Assembly, are going to be busy until the budget is passed. In a...
The Senate, on Tuesday, revealed that the Red Chamber will not tolerate any padding of the 2017 budget and warned that such moves will not be...
The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has aligned himself with the scathing remarks of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that the 2016 budget contained distortions with a “series of rogue projects and figures injected into it”. He however vowed...
Kiru/Bebeji constituency of Kano state which the former Chairman House committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibril represents, has dragged speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara...
Latter day anti-corruption crusader, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who was suspended for 180 days by the Yakubu Dogara-led House of Representatives, on Monday announced, through a series of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is intensifying a discreet investigation into the allegations made by the former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr....
Without making it a public issue, the Federal Government has dismissed 22 top civil servants in the country over allegations of padding the 2016 budget This...
Despite the decision of the House of Representatives to suspend Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, a good number of Nigerians have stated that there is a need for...
The embattled former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Adbulmumin Jibrin has promised to expose more acts of corruption in the House. Jibrin who...
The hard fighting former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, Tuesday, revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakybu...
Former Governor of Ebonyi State, Senator Sam Egwu has said that the current economic recession in the country was caused by the recklessness of past leaders...
The House of Representatives has postponed by one week its anticipated resumption, The PUNCH learnt in Abuja on Sunday. This also implies that the expected action...
The crusade embarked upon by the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin’s crusade received a boost on Wednesday, when the Presidential Advisory Committee...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that it is already investigating the budget padding allegations levelled against the Speaker of the House of...
A new twist has been added to the budget padding allegation rocking the House of Representatives, as the sacked Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Okon Abang, on Thursday refused to hear the suit filed by Abdulmumin Jibrin to...
The budget padding allegations against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House, has received the attention...
The sacked Chairmn of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said the lower chamber of the National Assembly is the most corrupt...
There are indications that the Nigeria Police may go tough on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in his “foolishly” ways, can’t compel him to reveal more lawmakers and members of executive arm involved I the...
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday, explained why he submitted himself to the police for investigation over allegations of...
There are indications that Federal Government may have started a probe of the N300bn allocated to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2015 budgets. According...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Presidential Villa Abuja. The Speaker has now met President Buhari...
Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila has joined other principal officers of the House of Representatives, to describes allegation of budget padding by Abdulmumin Jibrin as baseless. This...
By Femi Falana… Last week, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representatives arrogantly maintained that he would not subject himself to the investigation...
