Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has issued a scathing critique of the National Assembly over the confirmation of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday appealed to the National Assembly to set aside funds for the rebuilding of the state in the 2021 budget....
The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) on Friday confirmed Mr. Ojo Olatunde as the substantive Clerk of the National Assembly. The Executive Chairman of NASC, Mr....
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, on Tuesday, urged the National Assembly to fast-track the passage of the Petroleum...
A construction firm, Webster Global Ventures, accused of being used by some National Assembly members to engage in alleged contracts scams at the Niger Delta Development...
Transparency International, Nigeria, on Tuesday charged the National Assembly to reject future loan requests from President Muhammadu Buhari. The Executive Director of Transparency International, Nigeria, Auwal...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday warned ministers and heads of departments and agencies against undermining the National Assembly as an institution, its leadership and members. President...
The National Assembly Service Commission (NASSC) on Thursday accused the embattled Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. Mohammed Sani-Omolori of “gross insubordination”. The NASSC stated this...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Power, Gabriel Suswam, said on Monday the National Assembly was working with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to put...
A civil society group, Voters Awareness Initiative (VAI) on Thursday asked the members of the National Assembly to adhere to the principle of separation of powers....
The National Assembly on Wednesday suspended the Special Public Works programme conceived by the Federal Government for the engagement of 774, 000 Nigerians. The progamme which...
A human rights group has warned against efforts to ignore Federal Character principle and the Public Service Rules (PSR) in the appointment of a new clerk...
A few minutes after his meeting with the National Assembly joint committees on the 774,000 Special Public Works programme jobs ended in a fiasco, the Minister...
The leadership of the National Assembly on Monday succeeded in persuading the electricity distribution companies (DisCos) to defer the planned tariff hike till the first quarter...
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said on Tuesday the Federal Government had submitted the proposed guidelines for the reopening of schools across the...
A Civil Society Organisation, Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA) has called on the National Assembly to immediately commence its planned investigation into the activities of the...
A pro-Buhari group, the Buhari Media Organization (BMO) Sunday night described as unpatriotic, illogical and crudely partisan the call by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National...
A Civil Society Organization, the Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice (NDMPJ) Wednesday urged the National Assembly to withhold the 2020 Budget of the Niger...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said Tuesday the National Assembly would re-work its Legislative Agenda to reflect the current realities in the...
The National Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd), Thursday hailed the decision of the National Assembly to investigate the...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday met with the leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was attended by the Senate President,...
The leadership of the National Assembly has faulted the way the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government is being implemented and called for an enabling...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed on Saturday met with the leadership of the National Assembly to intimate it with an...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) told the National Assembly on Saturday to save the nation by probing the presidency following fresh reports of an alleged plot...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed his support for those in the Diaspora to vote during elections in Nigeria. He has also directed Nigerians outside the...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration on the “over-bloated” budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex....
The National Assembly will begin probe into the N72 billion and $73 million being owed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by 17 local and international...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the Hate Speech bill which passed the first reading at the Senate on Tuesday. The party asked the National...
Following failure of successive governments from 1999 till date to disclose details of allocations, disbursement, and spending of security votes by the three-tier of government, the...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday rued the country’s inability to fix its power sector challenges, saying past expenditures had yielded no commensurate...
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...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to reverse its decision to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from the current 5...
The senator representing Borno south, Ali Ndume, has said he has no reason to visit President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential villa as his quest to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the 2019 Appropriation bill of N8.92 trillion into law. The ceremony took place at the President’s office around 11am. Buhari...
A group, the coalition of South-East Youths has attacked the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over its decision to zone the office of the Senate President...
Another northern group has kicked against the decision by the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to adopt Femi Gbajabiamila as the next speaker...
It appears the Senate is not satisfied with the reasons given by the Independent National Electoral Commission (NIEC) for the postponement of the presidential polls from...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it is awaiting the transmission of an executive bill on the new minimum wage from the Presidency to the National...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The first opinion that is formed of a leader’s intelligence says Niccolo Machiavelli is based on the quality of men he has around...
More reactions have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s booing by some members of the National Assembly with the latest coming from Nigerian students. The students...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described the lawmakers who booed President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2019 budget proposal presentation on Wednesday as “children who lack...
By Joseph Edgar… I watched with dismay as our ordinarily distinguished National Assembly members heckled and behaved very badly during the President’s last budget presentation to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the National Assembly’s approval for the refund of N488.7 billion to State Governments for projects they executed on behalf of the...
Should the scheduled budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari before a joint session of the National Assembly fail tomorrow, the management of the National Assembly has...
Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter on the request to present the 2019 budget on Wednesday is yet...
President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted a Presidential Implementation Committee on Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary, in accordance with the Fourth Alteration to the 1999...
Ahmad Lawan, Majority Leader of the Senate and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari not signing the electoral act amendment...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) at a special meeting on Friday, has approved the proposals for the 2019 budget. The special meeting, which was called and...
Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos central senatorial district in the National Assembly has said some members of the federal legislature were frustrating the efforts of President...
WITH less than three months to the 2019 polls, indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may still not append his signature to the Electoral Bill,...
