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...
The National Commandant, Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Dickson Akoh, has reignited hope that, despite its setbacks, the Peace Corps bill may still be assented to....
In flagrant disregard for the Code of Conduct for public officers and the Public Procurement Act, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Lasun...
The House of Representatives has summoned Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora,...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s harsh comments on members of the National Assembly. The Chairman, House Committee on Media and...
The House of Representatives yesterday declined comment on the ongoing controversy over the fate of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), which had since been passed...
The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the 2018 Appropriations Bill after more than six months it was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari presented a N8.612...
The joint Senate and House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the invasion of the Senate chamber and the snatching of its mace has invited Senators...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has assured Nigerians that the 8th Senate, particularly the House of Representatives, would ensure the passage...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) may have failed to institute a regime of efficiency and effectiveness in its handling of emergencies during periods of crisis...
Nigeria’s National Assembly has paid out a total N6.6billion for purchase of exotic cars for its members, PREMIUM TIMES and UDEME can authoritatively report today. Official...
Two lawmakers elected into the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected. Ben Nwankwo and Anayo Anebe, both from...
The Presidency is not taking kindly to a recent invitation by the House of Representatives to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to appear before an ad hoc...
House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday hinted at when the 2018 Appropriations Bill would be passed into law by the National Assembly. The speaker mentioned...
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...
From Ajansii Mgbo Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has descended heavily on political parties in Nigeria, describing them as weak, deceitful and lacking...
The House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs has explained why it rejected the 2018 budget proposals presented to it by the leadership of the police....
The controversial bill seeking to regulate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria suffered a setback Wednesday as it received no support from any of the stakeholders who...
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...
Documents obtained by Saturday PUNCH show that the military is not truthful in its denial of its intention to bar women cadets from being admitted into...
The House of Representatives Wednesday passed a bill to provide legal framework for the formal inclusion of climate change actions into government policy, and also domesticate...
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....
Some of the exotic cars delivered to the members of the House of Representatives have developed faults barely 90 days after the automobiles arrived in Abuja,...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the North East Development Commission Bill into law. In a...
The House of Representatives and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) on Wednesday disagreed over the powers of the National Assembly to conduct probes into the...
The ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating alleged revenue leakages in the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Tuesday issued a one-week ultimatum to...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has frowned at reports in the media that the planned probe of budgetary allocations to the Aso Rock clinic by a committee...
The House of Representatives does not intend to issue a formal response to the fresh label of ‘unarmed robbers’ pinned on federal legislators on Thursday by...
Following widespread backlash over the failure of both houses of the National Assembly to pass some significant amendments which form part of the essence of a...
The House of Representatives has said that it has not dropped the Not Too Young To Run Bill, which seeks to lower the age limit for...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to swear in two ministers-designate within the next one week. Their call follows the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned a serving member of the House of Representatives, Nse Bassey Ekpenyong before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of...
Barring any last minute change, at least five lawmakers from Imo State who are current members of the Eight House of Representatives, may soon dump the...
Suspended House of Assembly member Abdulmumin Jibrin, has described his invitation by the House of Representatives as an extension of the witch-hunt against him by Speaker...
Nigerian former First Lady and wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has sought the intervention of the House of Representatives in her case with the Economic...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned its suspended Appropriation Committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin to appear to answer to petitions against him. He was therefore permitted...
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...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stirred an hornet’s nest as his submission on a number of issues in the country has set off a barrage of...
Suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, says other members of the house were blackmailed to back down in the fight to expose...
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside, has come on the spot over the award of a debt recovery...
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...
Smarting from the raid on the homes of judges and their arrest, the House of Representatives, Thursday, intensified the process of reducing the powers of the...
The three members of the House of Representatives who were accused of sexual misconduct while on official visit to the United States, have been given a...
As concerns keep growing over the fate of 50 Nigerian students being detained in Turkey over allegations of having links with coup plotters who attempted to...
The suspended House of Representatives committee on Appropriations chairman has found a supporter in the Green chambers who is speaking out against the suspension meted out...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has encouraged Abdulmumin Jibrin to go ahead and make more disclosure to Nigerians about his allegations of systemic corruption in...
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...
Abdulmumin Jibrin’s suit filed in August 9, seeking a court order to stop any plan by the lower legislative chamber to suspend him, has been fixed...
The embattled former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Adbulmumin Jibrin has promised to expose more acts of corruption in the House. Jibrin who...