The leadership of the National Assembly has faulted the way the Social Investment Programme of the Federal Government is being implemented and called for an enabling...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed on Saturday met with the leadership of the National Assembly to intimate it with an...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) told the National Assembly on Saturday to save the nation by probing the presidency following fresh reports of an alleged plot...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed his support for those in the Diaspora to vote during elections in Nigeria. He has also directed Nigerians outside the...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) led administration on the “over-bloated” budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex....
The National Assembly will begin probe into the N72 billion and $73 million being owed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by 17 local and international...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the Hate Speech bill which passed the first reading at the Senate on Tuesday. The party asked the National...
Following failure of successive governments from 1999 till date to disclose details of allocations, disbursement, and spending of security votes by the three-tier of government, the...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday rued the country’s inability to fix its power sector challenges, saying past expenditures had yielded no commensurate...
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has counselled the Federal Government against starving anti-corruption agencies of funds so that they can...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to reverse its decision to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from the current 5...
The senator representing Borno south, Ali Ndume, has said he has no reason to visit President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential villa as his quest to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the 2019 Appropriation bill of N8.92 trillion into law. The ceremony took place at the President’s office around 11am. Buhari...
A group, the coalition of South-East Youths has attacked the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over its decision to zone the office of the Senate President...
Another northern group has kicked against the decision by the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to adopt Femi Gbajabiamila as the next speaker...
It appears the Senate is not satisfied with the reasons given by the Independent National Electoral Commission (NIEC) for the postponement of the presidential polls from...
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it is awaiting the transmission of an executive bill on the new minimum wage from the Presidency to the National...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… The first opinion that is formed of a leader’s intelligence says Niccolo Machiavelli is based on the quality of men he has around...
More reactions have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s booing by some members of the National Assembly with the latest coming from Nigerian students. The students...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has described the lawmakers who booed President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2019 budget proposal presentation on Wednesday as “children who lack...
By Joseph Edgar… I watched with dismay as our ordinarily distinguished National Assembly members heckled and behaved very badly during the President’s last budget presentation to...
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the National Assembly’s approval for the refund of N488.7 billion to State Governments for projects they executed on behalf of the...
Should the scheduled budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari before a joint session of the National Assembly fail tomorrow, the management of the National Assembly has...
Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter on the request to present the 2019 budget on Wednesday is yet...
President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted a Presidential Implementation Committee on Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary, in accordance with the Fourth Alteration to the 1999...
Ahmad Lawan, Majority Leader of the Senate and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari not signing the electoral act amendment...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) at a special meeting on Friday, has approved the proposals for the 2019 budget. The special meeting, which was called and...
Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos central senatorial district in the National Assembly has said some members of the federal legislature were frustrating the efforts of President...
WITH less than three months to the 2019 polls, indications have emerged that President Muhammadu Buhari may still not append his signature to the Electoral Bill,...
The Federal Government has said it is committed to the passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) to enable the country reap full benefits from...
The indicted Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, may have become desperate in his bid to cover up the rot at...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has blamed the National Assembly for its inability to issue bonds to clear the debts owed oil marketers in the country....
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the National Assemby to expedite action on the 2019-2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper to aid the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today publish personal particulars of presidential and National Assembly candidates submitted to it by 89 political parties participating in...
PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, of frustrating genuine efforts by the National Assembly to deepen democracy...
There is palpable anxiety in the polity as the National Assembly joint Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) meets today, to continue deliberation on...
The controversy surrounding the supplementary budget for the 2019 general elections took a new dimension yesterday when the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Prof....
An APC senator representing Nasarawa state, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has called for a forensic audit of budgetary allocations to the National Assembly. Adamu told newsmen on...
The suspended work on the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general elections will resume on the 27th of August. The...
Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has again called on Senate President Bukola Saraki to resign if he does not want to...
Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu have raised the alarm that the Federal Government hatching another plot against them. They alleged that the...
For the umpteenth time, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) demonstrated some level of incompetence and inability to successfully manage an issue it deemed critical to...
The National Assembly has called off its recess and fixed a date for resumption of plenary. It is to reconvene on Tuesday, August 14. This was...
The Senate President Bukola Saraki In Wednesday, state’s that the leadership of the National Assembly is ready to vacate their seats. He explained that if due...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Nigeria is an African country that is too big to fail. If it fails, it is not only going to overwhelm the...
The All Progressive Party, APC, has said it was unaware before hand of the happenings that played out at the National Assembly on Tuesday. According to...
The Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA)Sani Omolori, Tuesday morning refused entering into the National Assembly complex, insisting he cannot go in without his staff. The...
Honourable Boma Goodhead from Rivers State, on Tuesday dared operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) to shoot her. She confronted the masked gun-wielding DSS...
The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Timi Frank has said that attempts to forcefully reconvene the upper chamber of the National Assembly...