President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday said the prompt passage of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Bill by the National Assembly...
The National Assembly has passed a Federal Audit Services Bill which seeks to ensure the independence for the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation. The...
WHILE supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari appear disturbed over the reordering of the 2019 election timetable by the National Assembly, NASS, an investigation by Saturday Vanguard...
In what appears to be getting more interesting by the day, the new sequence introduced by members of the National Assembly, for the 2019 general elections,...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has announced a six-man committee of senators to reconcile the Senate’s version of the amended Electoral Act with...
The presidency, on Tuesday, indicted the leadership of the 7th National Assembly, over its alleged failure to carryout a proper oversight on Ministries, Departments and Agencies...
Some senior lawyers have cautioned the Federal Government against the withdrawal of $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) to fund the war against the...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday came down hard on the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for doing a shoddy job of the 2018 budget. In very unmistakable terms,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives that he would want to present the 2018 budget proposal to a joint session of the...
The unending frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly may deepen following renewed pressure on the former by the latter to as a matter...
Amidst concerns and rumours over the whereabouts of the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Leo Ogor, some of his colleagues have downplayed insinuations...
The ambitious bid by the Presidency to present its budget to the National Assembly next month may not materialise after all, due to several factors, chief...
Although calls from various quarters across the country have intensified in recent times in support of restructuring, the Senate, on Wednesday, in what will be interpreted...
The Senate at about 12.35pm today, voted against devolution of powers to States. Forty eight voted against it, while 46 voted in favour. It however voted in...
Expectations by the people of Niger Delta that the on-going constitution review would address their demands for total resource control may have been dashed. Indications to...
Speaking at a meeting with governors in Abuja on Thursday, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, asked those agitating for state police to consider the...
The group, Concerned Nigerians, has threatened to begin a daily sit-out at the National Assembly from the 90th day of President Buhari’s absence from Nigeria. This...
The acting president, Yemi Osinbajo has written the National Assembly for approval to redirect the spending of N135.6billion in the 2017 budget meant for 14 Federal...
The seeming battle of supremacy between Nigeria’s executive and legislative arms of government may soon fall to the judicial arm for settlement. Feelers emanating from the...
Feelers emanating from the presidency indicate that the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is frantic to resolve the rift between the executive and the National Assembly. There...
Senator Ali Ndume who represents Borno South was on Tuesday freed of the terrorism charges filed against him by the federal government in December 2011. Justice...
The ongoing face-off over the 2017 budget, may not be over soon, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu...
By Abdulmumin Jibrin… The Acting President made what, in my opinion, was a harmless remark when he observed that the National Assembly has no powers to...
A fresh row may be in the offing between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government over the 2017 budget. This is because the Presidency...
It was almost a war of words as a major shortfall in the 2016 budget was noticed on Tuesday by the joint National Assembly Committee on...
A mass of protesters against the continued detention of Shia Muslim leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky rocked the National Assembly on Wednesday. The large number of protesters,...
Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said that there is no special money meant for him to spend as security vote. The governor who...
Nigeria’s notable whistle blower and suspended former House of Representatives Appropriation Committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has suggested that Speaker Yakubu Dogara may have lied over his...
House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday released details of his October 2016, to March 2017 salaries pay slips. Dogara’s total pay per month, as...
The House of Representatives says that Kaduna State governor, Nasir el’Rufai was trying to be clever in publishing some items on his security vote the way...
Kaduna State’s Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Friday challenged each other to disclose their financial earnings. The governor said...
Senators and members of the House of Representatives, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, gave conditions to Governor Henry Seriake...
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, may be heading for a clash with the National Assembly over a number of bills sent to him for assent....
Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, on Tuesday, blamed the lack of smooth implementation of the 2016 budget on its late passage by the National Assembly....
A joint committee of the National Assembly on Friday invited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the sudden change of leadership of...
Lawmakers from Cross River State in both chambers of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s delay in sending Justice Samuel Walter Onnoghen...
In anticipation of the arival of President Muhammadu Buhari who is still in Gambia, to the National Assembly to present the 2017 budget, the three entraces...
By SOC Okenwa… Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is an enigmatic controversial misunderstood statesman in Nigeria. His national interventions always had an insightful impact on our national...
The Senate at plenary on Thursday turned down the nomination of Saidu Abubakar, a nominee for the board of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC). It should...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has advised politicians and the media to stop peddling empty speculations about his recent visits to the Presidential Villa and...
Musician turned activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy on Wednesday led a protest march blocking the entrance to the National Assembly, Abuja. They blocked...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the grazing bill before the National Assembly was uncalled for and said it is like “trying to kill a fly...
The office of the embattled Abdulmumin Jibrin at the House of Representatives building Abuja has been sealed up. The former Appropriation Committee Chairman was on Wednesday,...
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...
Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo was not wrong to say that National Assembly is corrupt. The former Chairman of the Committee on...
The alleged padding of the 2016 budget by the National Assembly may have assumed a new dimension as two federal lawmakers from Zamfara State have been...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the alleged budget padding by the National Assembly only vindicates his claim that the federal lawmakers are “armed robbers...
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied the existence of any bill for the creation of grazing reserves before the National Assembly. Ekrem also vowed...
The Kogi State Government has approached the Supreme Court asking it to nullify the resolution of the House of Representatives taking over the function of the...
The threat to by some Nigerian youths to move against the National Assembly (NASS) was carried out on Tuesday, as youths under the aegis of Occupy...
