The National Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has counselled the Federal Government against starving anti-corruption agencies of funds so that they can...
Efforts by the House of Representatives to stop the nationwide strike proposed by the labour over the delay in concluding negotiations on the consequential adjustment in...
The Lagos State House of Assembly Thursday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the immediate past governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode and four...
A peep into the history of attempts seeking regulation of non-profitable organizations (NPOs) in Nigeria will reveal that no bill has ever received the level of...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday received the report on Senator Elisha Abbo’s alleged assault on a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja. The...
Senator Rochas Okorocha on Thursday said lawmakers representing each state of the federation should be reduced. He said the development if accomplished will help the country...
State governors have been asked by President Muhammadu Buhari to desist from fixing federal roads, if at the end they would ask for refund of money...
Indications emerged that some current and former members of the House of Representatives were planning to halt the ongoing probe of their handling of constituency projects....
Some level of peace may have been attained in Bauchi as the crisis that engulfed the State House of Assembly appears resolved. Indications to this effect...
The 10th edition of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer, GCB, released on Thursday has shown the police, legislature and the judiciary are among the most corrupt...
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum, SMBLF, has raised the alarm that there was a surreptitious plan by the Federal Government to repeal the Land...
The Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello and lawmakers at the state House on Friday lost the bid to remove the state Chief Judge when a High...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has quashed the inauguration of the state assemblies of Edo and Bauchi states. The party described the purported election of leadership...
Hoodlums numbering about 50 on Tuesday reportedly attacked no fewer than 14 lawmakers-elect of Edo State alongside the younger brother of the National chairman of All...
There is no doubt that things are not getting better in the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as more troubles emerge on...
More facts have emerged on how lawmakers in the House of Representatives both old-timer and first-timer were induced with vouchers and credit cards to vote massively...
Six members of the Imo State House of Assembly on Monday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the Action Allaince, AA, and the All Progressives...
The Ondo state chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has tasked the newly inaugurated lawmakers of the state to ensure their decisions are labour-friendly to have...
Ahead of the expiration of the 8th National Assembly, the management of the National Assembly has sacked the lawmakers from their various offices despite the fact...
Pensioners in the South-West geopolitical zone under the umbrella of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, has called for immediate reduction of the salaries and allowances given...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday turned down a bill requesting for the reform of Nigerian police. The lawmakers at the lower chamber refused to pass...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICOC) has revealed how Mr Bature Masari, a former Director General of Small and Medium Enterprise Development...
House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a bill seeking to prevent public officials from seeking medical treatment abroad. During the plenary at the lower legislative chamber,...
Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has given an insight into how things will be run in the 9th National Assembly....
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), has expressed satisfaction over the passage of the Companies and Allied Matters Bill by the National Assembly, which it described as...
FOLLOWING moves by members of the Lagos State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, a web of intrigues, yesterday, surfaced over the current face-off...
Members of the opposition parties in the National Assembly have alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress has perfected fresh plans to start intimidating, arresting and...
Some lawmakers on Sunday said it would be impossible for the National Assembly to start and complete work on the national budget before next year’s general...
Some senators and members of the House of Representatives on Friday said it was no longer feasible to start and complete the process of overriding President...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) on Sunday called on members of the National Assembly, especially those from opposition parties, to boycott President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
The All Progressives Congress caucus in the Senate has started pleading with their colleagues who failed to get tickets to contest the 2019 senatorial election not...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki has lamented the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB despite its...
The Department of State Security has reportedly blocked the entrance to the National Assembly. Returning lawmakers and even staff of the federal legislature have been refused...
The presidency has resorted to begging the National Assembly to reconvene so as to save the 2019 general elections from running into troubled waters. The Presidency,...
President Muhammadu Buhari says the National Assembly added a sum of N14.5 billion to its budget upon passage, even as it cut budgetary provision for some...
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...
A Nigerian court on Wednesday, presided over by Justice Ahmed Mohammed, voided moves by the legislative arm of government to re-order the nation’s election timetable. In...
Two lawmakers elected into the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected. Ben Nwankwo and Anayo Anebe, both from...
President Muhammadu Buhari has threatened to sack chief executives of federal parastatals and agencies that fail to appear before the National Assembly to defend their budgets,...
The Coalition for Nigeria, a third-force political group being championed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, appears to be a major platform that has continued to attract...
As former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s bombshell to President Muhammadu Buhari, advising him not to re-contest the 2019 presidential election sent shock waves across the country Tuesday,...
Hopes of reversing some of the negative trends in the nation’s economy may be dimmed by the Federal Government’s inability to fix the problems that have...
The poaching of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators by the All Progressives Congress (APC) is unlikely to abate despite the outcry by the leadership of the...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has accused Nigerian lawmakers of corruptly enriching themselves through bogus constituency projects inserted into budgets. The lawmakers, in return, have branded Obasanjo...
Clerk to the Senate, Mr Nelson Ayewoh, has moved against cameramen and photojournalists covering the Red Chamber. To this end, the National Assembly management has reduced...
Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, on Wednesday, told lawmakers that he would not honour an invitation extended to him by...
As Senators get closer to the passage of the first phase of the much-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), lawmakers have expressed their readiness to override President...
President Jacob Zuma’s state-of-the-nation speech at the South African parliament turned out to be a free for all as lawmakers of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters...
Senators, both from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have reportedly gone into hiding, as the current economic recession...
Barely twenty four hours after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers staged a walkout over the defection of Senator Yele Omogunwa to the ruling All Progressives Congress...
