The two chambers of the National Assembly on Wednesday reacted to concerns raised by President Muhammadu Buhari on the alterations made to the 2018 Appropriation Act....
President Muhammadu Buhari says the National Assembly added a sum of N14.5 billion to its budget upon passage, even as it cut budgetary provision for some...
About six months into the year, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday signed the 2018 Appropriations Bill into law. Buhari signed the budget as passed by the...
Barely six days to the elective national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Presidency and the party’s 24 state governors are locked in...
Beyond the need to ensure prosecution of persons indicted of committing crimes, the opposition has said that the renewed offensive against corruption and other crimes levelled...
President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2018 Appropriation Bill into law on Tuesday, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, told Reuters in London on Friday. The Special...
The Presidency has again said the executive bill on water resources currently before the National Assembly was being misinterpreted as it was not intended to take...
Bala Na’Allah, Deputy Senate Leader, has, on behalf of the National Assembly, pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to tolerate senators and members of the House of...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Atai Aidoko, the senator representing Kogi East senatorial district, to vacate the National Assembly. At its sitting...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that the National Assembly lacks powers to investigate criminal allegations, indict or absolve anyone of crime. In a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is yet to receive the resolution of the National Assembly asking it to release the result of the June 12,...
Contrary to speculations that senators were collecting signatures to impeach President Buhari, Saturday Telegraph was reliably informed that there was no such move in the apex...
The National Assembly has embarked on a four-week recess. The leadership of the two chambers of announced this after their respective plenaries. The lawmakers are to...
The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has praised the National Assembly for Tuesday’s joint resolution to sanction the President. The group stated that the move was an...
Easily given to ceremony than substance, it is no surprise that we seem carried away yet again by the enactment last week of the “Not-Too-Young-To-Run” Act....
Following what appeared a great show of unity by members of the National Assembly on Tuesday as they took a unified position in a joint session...
Muhammadu Kazaure, an All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives member from Jigawa State, has come out strongly against the reported plan to impeach President Muhammadu...
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has provided an explanation for why the age qualification for the Senate and governorship was retained. As it pertains to...
Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for what he considered an insult on the National Assembly, linking it to the...
The senate has asked Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to name corrupt National Assembly members. On Tuesday, Jega said the...
Prolonged approvals from the National Assembly for non-oil export incentives under the revised Export Expansion Grant (EEG) scheme, also known as the Export Credit Certificate has...
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....
The Presidency has commenced the vetting of the details of the 2018 Budget bill passed as the National Assembly. The lawmakers passed a budget of N9,120,334,988,225...
The House of Representatives said on Sunday that the National Assembly did not expect a post-budget dispute with President Muhammadu Buhari over the 2018 budget. The...
Ex-Chair of House of Representatives Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has denied involvement in, and knowledge of N17 billion bribe-for-budget as claimed by ex-finance minister, Dr....
The on-going investigation by the National Assembly into the April 2018 invasion of the Senate by hoodlums may have claimed its first casualty, as the Inspector-General...
The presidency has confirmed that the National Assembly has now transmitted the 2018 budget to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant to...
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 Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said the National Assembly was yet to transmit the recently passed 2018 Appropriation Bill to...
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 2018 budget is set to face further delay despite its passage by the National Assembly yesterday. Daily Trust correspondents report that after the passage of...
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...
Except the National Assembly include the payment of royalties to oil producing communities in Petroleum Host Communities Development Trust unrest in the Niger Delta will persist....
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 senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Abe, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis rocking...
Security has been tightened at the National Assembly in anticipation of the resumption of Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central. On Thursday, a High Court...
Awka, the capital of Anambra State witnessed a protest on Friday by scores of youths against the Nigerian Senate over its frequent invitations sent to the...
Shehu Sani, Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, has responded to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s tirade against him and the other senators representing...
Two Lawyers, Monday Ubani and John Nwokwu, have dragged the Senate and House of Representative, as well as the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) before a Federal...
There are strong indications that the N8.612 trillion 2018 budget christened “Budget of Consolidation’’ may suffer longer delay as the National Assembly (NASS) awaits further submissions...
The Presidency has presented documents and a letter from the United States Government to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters on why it decided...
There was unusual security presence at the National Assembly yesterday, as combined team of combat-ready security operatives drawn from the Department of State Services (DSS), anti-riot...
Barring last minute changes, the National Assembly would receive the report on the 2018 budget from its joint Committee on Appropriation tomorrow (Wednesday), The PUNCH learnt...
With angry members of the National Assembly allegedly collecting signatures to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari for the legislative bypass in the ongoing $496m Tucano aircrafts deal,...
After almost 18 years of been in the woods without clear consideration by successive governments and the legislature, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally received the harmonised...
The Senate, on Thursday, summoned President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before a joint session of both chambers of the National Assembly, to address them on the...
The festering crisis of confidence between the Presidency and the National Assembly may have deepened. There were signs yesterday that the Senate may have resolved to...
Lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly are set to take on the Executive over the withdrawal of $496 million (N151.4 billion) from the Excess...
The planned passage of the 2018 budget today (Tuesday) by the National Assembly is no longer feasible. Investigations on Monday indicated that the N8.612tn budget would...
Nigeria’s National Assembly led by Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara paid out N5, 638, 664, 700 to 44 unqualified contractors, PREMIUM TIMES...