The positions of National Assembly leaders, Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Reps Speaker Yakubu Dogara, on the fight against corruption have been faulted by...
A suit by the suspended House of Representative whistle-blower, Abdulmumin Jibrin, suffered hitches on Wednesday as the Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara on Monday received the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Hon. Laura Boldrini. Dogara at the...
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...
The House of Representatives has challenged Governor Nasir El-Rufai to make public his monthly security vote and not the state’s security budget which he did on...
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...
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday disclosed publicly his state’s expenditure, including security votes. The governor and the House of Representative Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, had...
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...
The House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday expressed hope that President Muhammadu Buhari will not fail in the debts owed to Nigerian pensioners. He...
By Farooq Kperogi- What’s all these annoyingly false Manichean binaries people are erecting between an “evil” National Assembly and a “benign” Aso Rock! Both Aso bRock...
Not happy with government’s failure to meet its obligation to pensioners, Nigeria House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, said the lawmakers are ready to go and...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday lamented that about 60 per cent of eligible voters were unregistered between 2011 and 2015. The lawmakers accused the Independent...
Some N481bn may have been stolen from the 2016 budget through padding, according to the content of a letter written by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,...
The House of Representatives has commenced a probe into the four Social intervention schemes of the federal government involving N500 billion. It has mandated its committees...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday sought formal approval from the National Assembly to commit a $500million Eurobond for the financing of the country’s 2017 budget...
The National Assembly (NASS)’yesterday queried the utilisation of N2.74 trillion invested in the nation’s power sector from 1999-2015, saying the sector depreciated increasingly, despite the huge...
Investors in the nation’s power sector have called for the settlement of N50 billion owed them, while also calling for the introduction of a realistic tariff...
As President Muhammadu Buhari continues his leave in the United Kingdom, the President of the Senate Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara,...
The last may not be heard on the travails of the former chairman of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdulmumini Jibrin, since he stirred the hornet’s...
The never-ending face-off between Abdulmumin Jibrin and Speaker Yakubu Dogara has taken a new turn with the former accusing the later of receiving $600,000 cash from...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, for always putting Nigeria’s interest above every other thing. The...
Disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives on harmonisation of certain aspects of the Code of Conduct Amendment Bill, recently passed by the two...
The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has aligned himself with the scathing remarks of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
The last may not have been heard about the conduct of the Department of Security Services (DSS) in the arrest and prosecution of judges. The House...
The Presidency has again taken steps to woo the National Assembly and get it to approve its request to borrow $30 billion to fund the 2017...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is intensifying a discreet investigation into the allegations made by the former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr....
The last is yet to be heard in the face-off between the suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin and...
Abdulmumin Jibrin has said he was suspended and his office invaded for Speaker Yakubu Dogara to hold and destroy any evidence relating to the budget padding...
Nigerian House of Representatives on Wednesday suspended Abdulmumin Jibrin for 180 legislative days and banned him from holding positions of authority for the rest of the...
Still smarting from the many controversies that characterised the passage of the 2016 budget, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has called for...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has told his colleagues to choose between the options of standing with Speaker Yakubu Dogara and corruption or with Nigerians. The embattled House of...
Abdulmumin Jibrin was nowhere to be found as House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges Committee commenced its investigative hearing into allegation of misconduct leveled...
House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, had told President Muhammadu Buhari that it was needful for him to tell Nigerians how he wants to pull the...
The hard fighting former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, Tuesday, revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakybu...
As the House of Representatives reconvenes Tuesday (today), Transparency Group (TG) lawmakers have vowed to resist any plans to pass a vote of confidence on Speaker...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has described the current economic recession the nation is going through as nothing new. The Speaker, who...
In an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop lamenting and fix Nigeria. His call...
The House of Representatives has postponed by one week its anticipated resumption, The PUNCH learnt in Abuja on Sunday. This also implies that the expected action...
The crusade embarked upon by the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin’s crusade received a boost on Wednesday, when the Presidential Advisory Committee...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that it is already investigating the budget padding allegations levelled against the Speaker of the House of...
A new twist has been added to the budget padding allegation rocking the House of Representatives, as the sacked Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations,...
The ‘never say die’ Senator Abdulmumin Jibrin, has again alleged that Speaker Yakubu Dogara and all 10 principal officers have received about N10 billion as running...
The budget padding allegations against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House, has received the attention...
The sacked Chairmn of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said the lower chamber of the National Assembly is the most corrupt...
There are indications that the Nigeria Police may go tough on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of...
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...
By Tony Ogunlowo… As the budget padding controversy rages on members of the public wonder what’s next. When it comes to pilfering public funds Nigerian politicians...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, may have more than enough to contend with, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on...
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday, explained why he submitted himself to the police for investigation over allegations of...
There are indications that Federal Government may have started a probe of the N300bn allocated to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2015 budgets. According...
