The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, seems to have found a new pastime of making disclosures on those allegedly fueling challenges plaguing Nigeria. Last week,...
Last week, Senator Abba Moro’s sponsored bill for the establishment of Families of Fallen Servicemen Support Fund made progress at the Red Chamber of the National...
Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, remains one daring Senator who is always eager to bare his mind on perceived failings of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration....
For those who have followed, closely, the Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, they would attest that he shoots straight from the hips, especially...
Last week, the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, made a sensitive disclosure bordering on Nigeria’s deplorable security situation. He, without mincing words, named the sponsors...
Last week, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, revealed his worries over the possible negative effects of the never-ending farmers-herders clashes. Already, the clashes have bred mutual...
Last week, Senator Muhammad Enagi Bima, speaking on the floor of the National Assembly (NASS), in Abuja, lashed out at the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Bima...
Last week, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, Benjamin Kalu, confidently dished a strange reason for the recorded deaths of National Assembly...
At a time when farmers-herdsmen conflict is threatening to tear the South-West region apart, and sow ethnic tension across Nigeria, prominent political office holders are speaking...
If any lawmaker felt an immediate sense of relief over the sack of Nigeria’s military chiefs last week, it was Senator Ali Ndume. He is the...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, last week spoilt the fun for critics who continue to see everything wrong with the seeming open romance between...
Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives literarily found themselves swimming against the tide last week. This was evident in the grumbles of some NASS members in...
Senator Ali Ndume is a lawmaker never shy to throw his hat in the ring anytime the issue of Boko Haram is raised for conversation. Marked...
Following heightened insecurity in the country, the members of the House of Representatives did what many ardent political watchers did not envisage. They invited President Muhammadu...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, last week lent his voice to efforts being made to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, a challenge that has brought all countries of...
There was rage in the National Assembly (NASS) past week as Senators boiled in anger over perceived disregard, by President Muhammadu Buhari, of their resolutions on...
The pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak up on the state of insecurity in the country reached a crescendo when members of the lower chamber...
The Nigerian Senate, dumping all forms of affiliations and sentiments, is unyielding in its call on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack his underperforming security chiefs. The...
Just when it appeared that the dust had settled on claims that former President Goodluck Jonathan left an empty treasury in 2015, top lawmaker in the...
Lawan’s jab On November 19, the President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, called on Nigerians to punish lawmakers, who they perceive to have performed poorly,...
Ndume’s grouse For the umpteenth time, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has kicked against Nigerian Government’s reintegration of repentant Boko Haram members into...
Barking at Buhari The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, on November 5, barked at the presidency when it counseled the State House Permanent...
Checkmate The Committee on Information, National Orientation, Ethics and Values in the House of Representatives, on October 27, warned the Federal Government against any attempt to...
That bizarre defence Senator Ali Ndume, on October 23 sternly dismissed growing calls to slash National Assembly members’ pay. In detailing that the National Assembly only...
Gbaja’s recipe The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on October 11, called for punishment to be served on operatives of the disbanded Special...
#EndSARS realities On October 7, the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, argued that banning the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) would not bring a solution to...
Blowing hot! The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on September 29 vowed that the House would take action against Ministries, Departments and Agencies...
Gbajabiamila’s lamentations On September 24, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, cried out over the never-ending insecurity in Nigeria. He made his frustration...
Kparapo as defense tactics On September 15, the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, made a statement that raised several eyebrows....
Suspicious signals On September 11, the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Arc. Olatunde Ojo, dished an unexpected announcement. In a statement, released on behalf of...
The unsettled fight On September 1, Nigerian Senators distanced themselves from an allegation heaped on them by the Director of Projects in the Niger Delta Development...
Omo-Agege’s kick On August 23, the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, expressed disapproval over Federal Government’s alleged move to scrap the 11-year-old Presidential Amnesty...
That hurried vacation On August 19, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, made public the suspension of all investigative and committee hearings...
Gbaja’s irritation On August 13, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, voiced concerns of the lower house over alleged financial misconduct of revenue...
That N156billion waste On August 8, Nigerians were again greeted with shock following disclosure by the Chairman, House Committee on Power in the House of Representatives,...
Unnecessary brouhaha? The House of Representatives, on July 28, opened a can of worms on a $400 million commercial loan agreement signed, on September 5, 2018,...
Go! Please, go!! Senators, on July 21, bared their minds on the continued stay of Nigeria’s service chiefs in the face of the deteriorating security situation...
Remi Tinubu’s script The Senate, on July 14, took an important step at stemming the tide of kidnapping in Nigeria. It passed a bill, sponsored by...
The return of Adamu The House of Representatives, on July 10, expressed its displeasure over the cancellation of this year’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) exams...
Let them shout! On June 30, there was a heated argument between the Minister of State for Employment, Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo and the National...
Guilty as charged! Poor Nigerians got a rare mention at the National Assembly recently. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, on June 21, shared...
Ndume’s tales Eyebrows were raised, last Tuesday, when media reports went viral claiming that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, had...
Lawan’s rigmarole It was a classic Ahmed Lawan beating about the bush last week. While making a remark on the incessant Boko Haram killings in Borno...
Borrowing without end Nigeria appears to be in a chokehold, and struggling for breath, as President Muhammadu Buhari leads a borrowing spree with the National Assembly...
