The ongoing face-off over the 2017 budget, may not be over soon, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu...
By Abdulmumin Jibrin… The Acting President made what, in my opinion, was a harmless remark when he observed that the National Assembly has no powers to...
A fresh row may be in the offing between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government over the 2017 budget. This is because the Presidency...
It was almost a war of words as a major shortfall in the 2016 budget was noticed on Tuesday by the joint National Assembly Committee on...
A mass of protesters against the continued detention of Shia Muslim leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky rocked the National Assembly on Wednesday. The large number of protesters,...
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...
Nigeria’s notable whistle blower and suspended former House of Representatives Appropriation Committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has suggested that Speaker Yakubu Dogara may have lied over his...
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...
The House of Representatives says that Kaduna State governor, Nasir el’Rufai was trying to be clever in publishing some items on his security vote the way...
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...
Senators and members of the House of Representatives, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday, gave conditions to Governor Henry Seriake...
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, may be heading for a clash with the National Assembly over a number of bills sent to him for assent....
Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, on Tuesday, blamed the lack of smooth implementation of the 2016 budget on its late passage by the National Assembly....
A joint committee of the National Assembly on Friday invited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the sudden change of leadership of...
Lawmakers from Cross River State in both chambers of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, frowned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s delay in sending Justice Samuel Walter Onnoghen...
In anticipation of the arival of President Muhammadu Buhari who is still in Gambia, to the National Assembly to present the 2017 budget, the three entraces...
By SOC Okenwa… Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is an enigmatic controversial misunderstood statesman in Nigeria. His national interventions always had an insightful impact on our national...
The Senate at plenary on Thursday turned down the nomination of Saidu Abubakar, a nominee for the board of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC). It should...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has advised politicians and the media to stop peddling empty speculations about his recent visits to the Presidential Villa and...
Musician turned activist, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy on Wednesday led a protest march blocking the entrance to the National Assembly, Abuja. They blocked...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the grazing bill before the National Assembly was uncalled for and said it is like “trying to kill a fly...
The office of the embattled Abdulmumin Jibrin at the House of Representatives building Abuja has been sealed up. The former Appropriation Committee Chairman was on Wednesday,...
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...
Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo was not wrong to say that National Assembly is corrupt. The former Chairman of the Committee on...
The alleged padding of the 2016 budget by the National Assembly may have assumed a new dimension as two federal lawmakers from Zamfara State have been...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the alleged budget padding by the National Assembly only vindicates his claim that the federal lawmakers are “armed robbers...
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied the existence of any bill for the creation of grazing reserves before the National Assembly. Ekrem also vowed...
The Kogi State Government has approached the Supreme Court asking it to nullify the resolution of the House of Representatives taking over the function of the...
The threat to by some Nigerian youths to move against the National Assembly (NASS) was carried out on Tuesday, as youths under the aegis of Occupy...
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally written the National Assembly over the 2016 budget, pointing out the discrepancies in the Appropriation Bill passed by the federal lawmakers....
Another round of crisis seems to be brewing over the 2016 budget, this time between federal civil servants and members of the National Assembly. The civil...
The controversies surrounding the 2016 budget seem not in a hurry to abate, as the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon Abdulmumin...
Aware of the implication of the National Assembly’s resolution for the electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) to halt the new electricity tariff, the Association of Nigerian Electricity...
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the 45 percent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This development...
After weeks of uncertainty and buck passing, all is now set for the consideration of the 2016 budget, as President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, sent an amended...
The Nigerian Senate, Monday, announced that it has 30 bills of interest that fast track the change agenda of the current administration slated for the 2016...
By Adeola Aderounmu Sometime in 2015 under the present regime in Nigeria (what l prefer to call the APC-Buhari mandate) the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS)...
In from Olumide Olaoluwa . . . The Presidency and National Assembly may be heading for a showdown over the operation of the Treasury Single Account...
Leadership of the National Assembly has stated that it will not be part of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) programme as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari....
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has stated that he is unaware of any plans by the National Assembly to spend about N47 billion for the...
In from Ali Smart … Even in the midst of a purported cash crunch, members of the 8th Assembly have spent about N13billion in two months,...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Thursday charged workers of the National Assembly to shun corruption, inefficiency and bureaucratic delays in the discharge of their...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators appear to be following the footsteps of their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts as crisis looms in the opposition party over...
In a bid to resolve the feud and reduce tension among members of the National Assembly, especially among APC legislators, as a result of the emergence...
Just in from his visit to Germany, President Muhammadu Buhari is holding a meeting with federal legislators elected on the platform of the APC, to resolve...
An advocacy group, Friends in the Gap Initiative Advocacy, say that the last constitution amendment exercise embarked upon by the seventh Assembly which was not seen...
The APC on Saturday settled for Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate president, and Senator George Akume as Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate. This was...
As the 7th Assembly winds down on Friday, outgoing Senators and House of Representatives members will go home with the about 473 operational vehicles of the...
President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly have decided to settle the dispute over the constitution amendment out of court as directed by a seven-man panel...
President Goodluck Jonathan has exercised his veto powers by rejecting a number of amendments to the 1999 Constitution, which were proposed by the National Assembly. Jonathan...
