The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in charge of Ogun State, Olusegun Agbaje, says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not need the approval of the...
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu, on Wednesday, decried the deplorable state of the National Assembly complex. Elumelu, who addressed the lawmakers...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Saturday the National Assembly gets only two percent of the Nigerian budget. Gbajabiamila stated this...
Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has responded to the threats by the leadership of the Miyetti Allah that it will sue governors in southern Nigeria...
‘On the mic’ On August 9, history was made when Akpabio received the Forensic Audit Report on NDDC in Abuja, and announced that it would be...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday, explained what transpired during the debates and eventual passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). President Muhammadu Buhari signed the...
A former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate, Ibrahim Mantu has died. Mantu is said to have have given in to complications arising from Covid-19 infection....
The National Assembly on Wednesday urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to suspend the ongoing strike and resume negotiations with the Federal Government. The...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on Monday urged the National Assembly to entrench electronic transmission of election results into the country’s electoral law. The governors...
The Senate has commenced the process of recovering N76 billion loans from some agencies via the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (AuGF). In order...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has contradicted the position of the National Assembly on the electronic transmission of election results, saying it has the capacity...
In the wake of the resolution of the National Assembly to ensure a three percent allocation to host communities within the framework of the Petroleum Industry...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday, urged members of the National Assembly to forgo partisanship and support the electronic transmission of election results in the...
Nigerian elections are among the most expensive in the world, and they may become much more so in the coming years. According to reports, the National...
The Senate has turned down a fresh request of $434.7m from the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, for projects already captured in the borrowing plan...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday forwarded the 2022-2024 Medium Time Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) to the National Assembly for consideration and approval....
The House of Representatives and Senate have disagreed over the approval of another loan for President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. President Buhari had sought approval for the...
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the National Assembly have declared their support for the recent resolution of the Southern governors on the electronic...
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Tuesday commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly on the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB)....
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has urged any Nigerian who is not happy with amendments of sections of the Electoral Act, to channel their...
Governors of the six states in the South-West will on Tuesday meet members of the National Assembly from the region in Abuja to deliberate on the...
Both chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) after careful consideration of each of the clauses. Ripples Nigeria had reported...
Top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday staged a protest at the National Assembly complex over the nomination of presidential media aide, Lauretta...
Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Audu Ogbe, has called on lawmakers from the northern region to support the calls for the restructuring of Nigeria...
Spokesman of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), Abdul-Aziz Sulaiman, has called on advocates of restructuring to have a rethink as there is nothing on ground...
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on those he refered to as ‘tribal politicians’ to desist from acts that are tearing the country...
On May 30, ruthless bandits stormed Salihu Tanko Islamiya School in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, and kidnapped no fewer than 136 students....
The Coalition of Northern Groups has asked the National Assembly to suspend the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution, saying it is ill-timed and uncalled for....
The minority caucus of the Senate and House of Representatives, making up the National Assembly, has urged Nigerians to ignore the suspension of Twitter by the...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to fix the salaries and allowances of the 469...
Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday restrained the National Assembly from fixing its members’ allowances. Obiozor, who delivered the judgment while...
Last week, the leaders of the National Assembly (NASS), Ahmed Lawan, and Femi Gbajabiamila, were left with no choice but admit Nigeria’s failing state. It has...
The Senate has ruled out the possibility of a brand new Constitution for Nigeria, because the 1999 Constitution does not include a clause on how to...
Elder Statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai on Thursday, opposed the establishment of State Police with a view that it would only destroy the nation’s democracy. Yakasai disclosed...
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) on Wednesday, charged the National Assembly to find ways to reactivate and reenact the 1963 Constitution, as against the 1999 Constitution being...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has joined calls from different groups for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over his inability and unwillingness to solve Nigeria’s...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Federal Government to intervene in the insecurity situation in Imo. This was contained in a statement issued by...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has assured Nigerian women that the National Assembly would soon create 111 legislative seats, specifically for them. Tallen made...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday the National Assembly would pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in May. Lawan, who stated this when he...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought for enabling law for the award of compensations to victims of human rights violations in the country. It...
The Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has stated that the issue of local government autonomy was not for the National Assembly to address. Gbajabiamila...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, on Thursday, appealed to striking resident doctors to return to work, saying “any soul that dies as a...
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum on Monday, revealed that sponsors of the Boko Haram insurgency are the progenitors of the escalating banditry in the Northwest and kidnappings...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has accused former Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika (Rtd), of working for the All Progressives Congress (APC), against the...
A former Senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial district in the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has called on Nigerians and the government to listen to the...
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...
The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital (UCH) Chapter, Ibadan, has embarked on a five-day warning strike over unpaid two-month salaries of its 370 members....
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to partner with the National Assembly to ensure speedy passage of the Electoral Act amendment bill. Prof. Mahmood...
The National Assembly and the organised labour are scheduled to meet today (Tuesday) over issues pertaining to the national minimum wage. Ripples Nigeria gathered that the...
Nigerians on social media Wednesday greeted with shock and disbelief, the reports that public school teachers in Rivers State were being owed salaries for a whooping...
