Owing to its failure to appear before the House of Representatives to defend its 2019 budget, the committee on commerce has stepped down the budget consideration...
Former Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ali Ndume has released a list of nine things he hoped to achieve should he be elected the President of the...
A Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers has warned the national leadership and other leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) against interfering in the affairs...
As the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government defend their 2018 budgetary allocations and 2019 proposals at the National Assembly, the Senate Committee...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has urged members-elect of the National Assembly to be courageous in the discharge of their legislative duties. Dogara...
Nigerians are reviving the #OpenNASS campaign which seeks to bring an end to budget secrecy in the parliament. As the tenure of the eighth National Assembly...
There are indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has resolved to lobby the National Assembly over the early passage of the Electoral Offences Commission...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari over the 2019 budget and previous budget estimates and procedures....
Months after the suspension of the Nigeria Air project, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has stated that the Federal Government was making plans...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the results of the Adamawa State House of Assembly elections. According to INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
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...
Senate Leader, Senator Ahmed Lawan, has declared his intention to run for Senate President of the ninth National Assembly, stating that the upper legislative chamber will...
Graduates of Engineering will no Longer be posted by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to secondary schools to teach. This is as President Muhammadu Buhari...
A leading human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has said the Independent National Electoral Commission has the power to de-register political...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it would come with a clear cut position on the composition of the leadership of the 9th National Assembly....
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has promised to work hand in hand with the National Assembly in order to review and strengthen the nation’s electoral...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has urged the 9th National Assembly to commence and conclude in earnest the amendment to...
By John Chukwu… The 2019 general elections saw the deployment of military personnel across states of the federation. This deployment was supposedly meant to provide adequate...
The Nigerian Senate was on Wednesday thrown into a rowdy session over a request by Senator Dino Melaye to present a motion on militarisation of the...
Manufacturers of alcoholic beverages and carbonated drinks may have a tough time trying to manage their revenue margin, following plans by the Federal Government to review...
The Rivers state police command has deployed 15,544 of its troops to various parts of the state as part of efforts to curb violence and ensure...
The Nigeria Police has claimed that 323 persons within the country fell into its net for various electoral offences during the February 23 Presidential and National...
Embattled Senator Shehu Sani is blowing hot again, this time, the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) candidate who lost out in the race to retain his Kaduna...
A former governor of Benue State has lost the third senatorial district in Benue State to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Akume who polled 115, 422...
Yakubu Kwanta, former local government chairman in Nasarawa state, escaped lynching on Saturday after being accused by angry youths for making attempts to snatch a ballot...
Presidential and National Assembly elections are held today in five units in three local government areas of Benue State. Mr. Nentawe Goshwe, Benue State Resident Electoral...
The Chartered Institute Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, has decried the incessant delay in the passage of the national budget, saying it impacts negatively on national productivity....
The two chambers of the National Assembly have scheduled February 26th as the day for their resumption of plenary. This is coming on the heels of...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Nigerians to “hold successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 and the leadership of the National...
By Todimu Ogunade…. Senator of the eighth National Assembly, Dino Melaye has carved a ‘’niche’’ that rings so loudly in my subconscious mind. Ignoble and professionally...
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), has doubted that the 2019 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari. The body...
Sen. Abu Ibrahim (APC, Katsina), has said that they will make sure Senate President Bukola Saraki did not return to the Senate, adding that President Muhammadu...
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), has expressed satisfaction over the passage of the Companies and Allied Matters Bill by the National Assembly, which it described as...
The Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abubakar Yari, has warned the National Assembly not to pass a new National Minimum Wage that would be difficult for...
There are reports that the two chambers of the National Assembly would reconvene on Tuesday to further discuss the suspension of the head of the judicial...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has concluded plans to protest at the National Assembly on Monday against the N27,000 new minimum wage bill sent to the...
Following the observation of discrepancies by the National Assembly in the 2019 budget, the budget office on Thursday insisted there were none of such errors. A...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent to the National Assembly for approval the proposed New National Minimum Wage of N27,000. A letter to the effect was read...
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the new national minimum wage bill to the National Assembly following its approval by the National Council of State. Ita Enang,Senior...
The Nigeria Labour Congress said it rejects the Tuesday adoption of the N27,000 national minimum wage by the council of states. The Secretary-General of the union,...
The National Industrial Court, NIC, Abuja, has said that it has not vacated an order it gave restraining the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, from...
The 8th National Assembly may go down in the history of the country as the one with the highest number of rejected bills passed by it,...
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...
The moves by the Federal Government and the organised labour to finalise the new minimum wage issue this month face yet another crisis. Sources at the...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has reacted to the planned arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria ( CJN) Justice Walter...
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai has responded to a request urging him to provide information on spending on military operations across the...
There are indications that there is serious security lapse at the nation’s apex legislative institution, the National Assembly, leading to a worrisome increase of cases of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday attacked the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for saying that there would be economic crisis in Nigeria if President Muhammadu Buhari went...
The controversy surrounding the new minimum wage may soon be a thing of the past, as President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to transmit a bill to...
If President Muhammadu Buhari’s N8.83 trillion budget is passed by the National Assembly without changes, the education sector would be getting its worst allocation in terms...