The Senate on Thursday, passed the contentious Electoral Act Amendment Bill amidst a lot of rancour and heated debate, with 52 voting for it while 28...
The Senate has passed a bill that proposes a 10-year jail term for purveyors of hate speech in the country. The bill which was passed during...
Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar has moved to stop the Senate’s probe into an assault allegation against him with originating summons...
President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with the 109 Senators of the National Assembly, as well as members of the House of Representatives tonight by 8 p.m....
The Senate has turned down a fresh request of $434.7m from the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, for projects already captured in the borrowing plan...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to ensure a slash in the salaries and allowances of politicians...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on those he refered to as ‘tribal politicians’ to desist from acts that are tearing the country...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, adopted a motion at plenary, to commence investigation into the disbursement of loans and credit facilities by the Federal Government...
The House of Representatives witnessed a minor fray on Tuesday during a plenary session over the ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria. The commotion started after...
The minority caucus in the House of Representatives has decried the ban of the social media platform, Twitter, by the Federal Government, saying it is a...
Lawmakers at the upper chamber during plenary on Tuesday directed the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to clamp down on illegal retailers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas...
The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has issued a damning scorecard of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, stating that Nigeria is heading towards a...
The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to rescind its decision to further increase electricity tariff in June. The call was...
The travails of the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) Hadiza Bala Usman continues as the Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives...
The current setbacks being faced by Nigeria in terms of corruption, poverty and insecurity could have been prevented if the legislature was carrying out its duties...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to immediately suspend the proposed 2021 population and housing census to be conducted by the National Population...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Tuesday, met with a member of the House of Representatives, Mr Musa Saidu Abdullahi, who sponsored the bill seeking...
The Senate resumed plenary on Tuesday, April 13, after a fortnight break, and adjourned sitting till Wednesday due to the demise of two lawmakers Ripples Nigeria...
The House of Representatives Committee on Healthcare Services has accused resident doctors working in federal institutions of receiving multiple salaries. This was contained in a statement...
The Minority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Ganiyu Oyedeji, has led six other lawmakers to defect from the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) to...
The Presidential ambition of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State got a boost on Thursday as the Niger State House of Assembly endorsed him. The Niger...
The House of Representatives has tasked the federal government of Nigeria to review the salaries, allowances and welfare of doctors in Nigeria to end brain drain...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a request by President Muhammadu Buhari for the refund of N148.14 billion to five states in the country. The...
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday grilled the management of Northlink Insurance Brokers Plc for providing insurance cover for two grounded aircrafts...
The Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have been accused of defrauding Nigerians with impunity. The House of Representatives levelled the allegation on Wednesday and urged the Minister...
The Edo State House of Assembly on Wednesday reversed the recent impeachment of the former Speaker of the House, Francis Okiye, and commuted it to resignation....
Nigerian youths; policy markers, lawmakers, media and civil society leaders will gather in Abuja on 1st of October, 2020 to debate and formulate strategies to promote...
The governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike has surprised the National Assembly (NASS) members from the state with car gifts. The governor, who purchased 15 Land Cruiser...
That N156billion waste On August 8, Nigerians were again greeted with shock following disclosure by the Chairman, House Committee on Power in the House of Representatives,...
The Lagos House of Assembly has hinted on having parents of youths found guilty of cultism in the state liable for punishment. This was the position...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, may have revealed the names of members of the National Assembly that got contracts from the Niger Delta...
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday denied saying that lawmakers in the National Assembly got 60 percent of contracts given out...
The House of Representatives on Thursday called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to flush out armed herdsmen invading communities in Enugu State. The House...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Nigerian Senate to confirm Professor Jumai Audi for appointment as the Chairman of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission. President Buhari...
The latest controversial bill in the chronicle of the 9th National Assembly on the pretext of proffering measures to curtail the spread of infectious diseases such...
To mitigate the economic effect of COVID-19, Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, announced Friday a 50 per cent cut in salaries of senior political appointees. He...
The Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has called for the total shutdown of the Ogun State House of Assembly over the alleged refusal...
Moves by the House of Reps for a bill seeking to give leaders of federal and state legislatures immunity from prosecution for corruption has been condemned...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday reacted to the public outcry that trailed the planned purchase of exotic cars for members of the National Assembly, saying...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday said it will allow Nigerians to decide the fate of the bill seeking to confer immunity from prosecution for presiding...
Members of the National Assembly got the most unusual support on Wednesday when President Muhammadu Buhari defended them, saying Nigerians are wrong to think federal lawmakers...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken control of the Imo State House of Assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The development followed the defection...
The Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, on Monday resigned from his position. Just as the deputy speaker resigned from the...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan may have inadvertently confirmed the fears of many Nigerians that the 9th Senate may be a rubber stamp one, as he...
President Muhammadu Buhari today met with the speakers of the 36 state Houses of Assembly in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The chairman of the Conference of...
Members of the Lagos House Assembly on Wednesday told the State High Court sitting in Ikeja that the suit filed by the immediate past governor of...
The House of Representatives has frowned at the decision of the Federal Government to ban sales of petrol in areas close to the country borders. The...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, has been asked to relocate the Giwa Barracks in Galtimari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State away...
The budget defence of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), may have run into a hitch, as the Senate has queried the documents it supplied during the...
A call has been made by ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) for the immediate reduction of the salaries and allowances of all lawmakers and political office holders in...
