There was mild drama in an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, with proceedings ending without the substantive matter being heard or the...
As plans by both chambers of the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018, gather steam, a new splinter...
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m allowances being received by senators is only a tip of...
The power tussle between Senators, loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari, and those who are pushing for the reordering of elections heightened on Saturday with the President’s...
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has announced his decision to head to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court upholding the...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, have pledged a common response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the...
There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate...
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 Senate on Thursday opposed an Abuja Federal High Court order stopping the National Assembly from taking any further action on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill,...
The next steps to be followed by the senate have been revealed following President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the amended electoral act sent to...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, has provided reasons behind his recent disclosure of the long-concealed exact earnings of Nigerian senators. Sani had revealed in...
Legal practitioner and rights activist, Femi Falana has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the payment of “illegal” salaries and allowances being paid...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has angered a number of his colleagues for lifting the veil on the N13.5 million illegal allowances members of...
A group of physically challenged persons on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to advocate for better treatment. The group, Association of Physically Challenged Applicants, said they...
The frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly largely accounts for the delayed passage of this year’s budget, The Nation has learnt. Besides, there...
Despite probes going on at both chambers of the National Assembly, there are indications that the Federal Government may go ahead with the concession of the...
The speakers of the state houses of assembly have thrown their weight behind devolution of powers, asking that it be reintroduced in the next round of...
Ten days to the meeting of members of Egmont Group, where Nigeria will be expelled, both chambers of the National Assembly are yet to transmit a...
The Peace Corps of Nigeria has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold assent to a bill ratifying its paramilitary agency status, alleging “conspiracy against...
Despite the opposition of the National Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has maintained that presidential and National Assembly elections must hold first and on...
Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has faulted the amendment of the election timetable by the National Assembly. Jega said the...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday, took to his social media accounts to express excitement that 25 out of 36 states assemblies...
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...
Young Nigerians are on the cusp of history as twenty-four of the thirty-six states in the country have reportedly passed the Not Too Young to Run bill, thereby...
There was panic on Thursday morning in the National Assembly, over a minor fire incident at the control room. The incident was caused by a power...
The ongoing amendment of election sequence by the National Assembly, on Wednesday, caused an uproar on the floor of the Senate. Senators loyal to President Muhammadu...
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 Emmanuel Macron of France is billed to visit Nigeria in early July and will seek to address the joint session of the National Assembly, Ambassador...
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed nine out of the fifteen constitutional bills, including the Not Too Young to Run Bill, transmitted to it...
The Nigerian Senate said it has been vindicated on its rejection of the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
Senators are threatening to boycott the February 1 security summit organised by the upper chamber, it was learnt yesterday. They do not want the Villa Banquet...
A yet-to-be-identified top official of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) is currently in police custody for allegedly slapping a serving senator and the only...
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday signed eight bills passed by the National Assembly into law. The brief signing ceremony was held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...
A new battle line may have been drawn between the two presiding officers of the National Assembly and the Presidency over the new amendments to the...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that despite the widespread perception that the National Assembly is being overfunded, it is actually grappling...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),Boss Mustapha, Thursday hinted that the Federal Government may not fully implement the 2018 budget if the National...
The Senate has reacted to an alleged claim by the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, that the National Assembly was responsible for the...
In an outright rejection of the allegation of padding the yet-to-be passed 2018 budget, the executive arm of government, yesterday, described as spurious and mischievous, claims...
The Senate will, at the plenary on Thursday (today), debate the proposed withdrawal of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government to fight...
The National Assembly has yet to approve the request by the Presidency to move N135.6bn to other pressing sub-heads in the 2017 budget five months after...
Twenty more exotic cars imported for members of the House of Representatives have arrived at the National Assembly in Abuja, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Findings...
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has argued that restructuring Nigeria was inevitable, pointing to signs from the different regions showing increasing gravitation towards the concept. Ekweremadu...
THE leadership of the House of Representatives has urged the citizenry not to expect the final budget in less than three months. Chairman, House Committee on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly. He conveyed his decision via a letter to the Senate. The bills...
The leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly has forwarded copies of amendments of the 1999 Constitution to State Houses of Assembly for concurrence, Ripples...
According to details of the proposed 2018 budget released by the Budget Office of the Federation, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo plan to spend...
In spite of a dinner rapprochement in the week, the National Assembly has launched a fresh plot for the removal of the Acting Chairman of the...
Some members of the House of Representatives Thursday protested President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to present the 2018 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly....
The Senate, on Thursday, said it will soon begin a holistic investigation into issues surrounding the concession and privatisation of some government properties in the Federal...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said there were no ulterior motives behind its special dinner with members of the National Assembly scheduled for Tuesday,...
