As the spate of killings by herdsmen and bandits continue in parts of the country, the House of Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appear...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, said the Senate has fulfilled the promise it made to pass the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Bill within the...
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has warned political parties against imposing leaders on the 9th assembly, as this has never been effective...
The Senator-elect for Abia North, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has appealed to the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to zone the position of Deputy...
The Nigeria Union if Contributory Pensioners, NUCP, has called for the scrapping of the current pension scheme and a reversal to the old system. The NUCP...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday lamented the ceiling placed on the budget of the Nigerian Army, begging members of the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is set to device a new means of liquidity management in order to reduce associated expenses. The Deputy Governor in...
The House of Representatives Ad hoc committee on the activities of National Pension Commission and its administrators, has threatened to issue a bench warrant to compel...
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Sunday, formally declared his interest in contesting for the office of Speaker of the House...
The DG revealed this when she featured on a Channels TV programme on Friday. Adeyeye said the committee asked her for the bribe in the form...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Works for the 2019 Budget Defence in Abuja....
By John Chukwu… Lawmakers who will represent various federal constituencies across the country were elected on February 23 to occupy the 9th National Assembly. There were...
Hon.Adegbuyi Oluwajuwa of the All Progressive Congress has emerged victorious in the supplementary elections for Ekiti East Constituency 1, in the State House of Assembly. The...
The Oyo State police command says it has arrested one person (name withheld) in connection with the gruesome murder of an Oyo State House of Representatives...
Reports show that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is taking the lead in some polling units in Gwarinpa Estate in the Local Council elections in Abuja...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said who becomes the next speaker of the House of Representatives is not his business. Dogara...
Thirty-four-year-old House of Representatives candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Ondo State, Tajudeen Adefisoye, known as ‘Small Alhaji’ may have emerged as the youngest...
The House of Representatives has approved a new national minimum wage of N30,000 for Nigerian workers. The president, Muhammadu Buhari has written to the lawmakers recommending...
Members of the House of Representatives have faulted the Council of State for approving N27,000 as new minimum wage for workers in the country instead of...
The House of Representatives has passed a bill criminalizing estimated billing by electricity distribution companies in the country. The bill, sponsored by the Majority Leader of...
A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank has revealed alleged plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest bigwigs...
THE leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Ondo State and the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu are on collision course over his decision to back...
HOUSE of Representatives committee probing the fraud in National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has discovered another set of rice hidden in a warehouse in Lagos. This...
A record, 84 members of both chambers of the 8th National Assembly have, so far dumped the various political parties on which they were elected during...
A sub-committee on Capital Market and Institutions of the House of Representatives has ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take over Capital Oil Plc....
A member of the House of Representatives, Musa Moba has labeled the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a deceitful and fraudulent party. Moba, from Kaduna State,...
Aggrieved All Progressives Congress members of the House of Representatives have resolved to dump the party, following their inability to secure return tickets for 2019, findings...
The House of Representatives has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to borrow $2.78 billion as part of capital funding for the 2018 budget, even as it...
Barring any last minute changes, more members of the House of Representatives would in the next few weeks be defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday lost members at the House of Representatives to other parties in the aftermath of...
Members of the All Progressives Congress caucus have suspended their plan to force Senator Bukola Saraki to resign as President of the Senate, or plot his...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said that contrary to speculations, funding for the 2019 general elections is not under any threat...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, may have finally defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party. Our correspondent gathered...
A plot to polarise the House of Representatives, especially the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus, has been uncovered. In this light, the recent crisis in which...
Senators loyal to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, have perfected a strategy to stop his impeachment and that of his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, according to SUNDAY...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have shifted the date to reconvene the National Assembly indefinitely. Both officials in a...
The resumption of the two chambers of the National Assembly is hanging in the balance as senators and members of the House of Representatives say there...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it has commenced the disbursement of low denomination notes to aid easy accessibility of the currency and put an...
Members of the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have alleged a secret plot to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the frequent increase in electricity tariff without significant improvement in power supply in the country....
As the battle for the control of the National Assembly rages between the federal lawmakers of the ruling All Progressives Congress and their Peoples Democratic Party...
The House of Representatives’ investigation into incentives/waivers granted to multi-national corporations is aimed at ensuring that Nigeria is not short-changed from benefits derivable from foreign direct...
A planned defection of the members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives earlier scheduled for Thursday (yesterday), was shifted to next...
The 8th National Assembly since its inauguration on June 9, 2015 has only received 12 Bills from the Executive arm of government. Findings carried out by...
Eminent Nigerians at the weekend suggested the way out of the killings in parts of the country. To a former Inspector-General of Police Suleiman Abba, the...
THE House of Representatives Committee on Customs has threatened to issue a bench warrant on 26 firms for failing to submit relevant documents over Customs duty...
Since 2016 when he presented his first ever budget as a civilian, President Muhammadu Buhari has had issues with the National Assembly such that questions now...
The National Assembly has embarked on a four-week recess. The leadership of the two chambers of announced this after their respective plenaries. The lawmakers are to...
The House of Representatives was on Thursday thrown into a rowdy session as members disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari declaring June 12 as...
The Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday held a joint session at the National Assembly. The session was presided over by the Senate President...