There are indications that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may enter into alliance with some of the opposition political parties ahead of the 2019 general...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has demanded for retraction of a story by an online news portal Premium Times, The online portal...
Nigeria’s National Assembly has paid out a total N6.6billion for purchase of exotic cars for its members, PREMIUM TIMES and UDEME can authoritatively report today. Official...
INVESTIGATIONS by Saturday Vanguard have revealed that last Wednesday’s invasion of the National Assembly was a scripted plot to force the reinstatement of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has argued that a “power vacuum” exists in the country as a result of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London where...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, says President Muhammadu Buhari will seek the approval of the National Assembly, as...
Months after a controversial bill by the National Assembly to further regulate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria received widespread public backlash and suffered derailment, the federal...
The National Assembly may reject the approval of another N4.2 trillion loan requested by President Muhammadu Buhari last month. It was learnt that the current request...
THE battle over the appointment of a substantive Chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is not yet over between contending forces in government...
The body in charge of determining salaries and allowances for public office holders, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Wednesday said only the National Assembly Service...
The National Assembly on Wednesday finally passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) after years of failed attempts. The bill was passed by the Senate after...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has asserted that the National Assembly would not abandon Zonal Intervention Projects, criticism notwithstanding. Dogara said this...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has urged the nation’s judiciary to adhere strictly to the principles of separation of powers as enshrined...
A coalition of over 400 civil society organisations under the aegis of Transition Monitoring Group, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to...
The Federal Government on Wednesday asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to authorise the forfeiture of 22 houses allegedly belonging to the Deputy Senate President,...
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) held a meeting on Wednesday. APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, was at the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has given ministries, department and agencies till Friday to submit details of their budget estimates to the National Assembly. This is coming five...
There was mild drama in an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday, with proceedings ending without the substantive matter being heard or the...
As plans by both chambers of the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Amendment Bill 2018, gather steam, a new splinter...
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m allowances being received by senators is only a tip of...
The power tussle between Senators, loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari, and those who are pushing for the reordering of elections heightened on Saturday with the President’s...
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has announced his decision to head to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court upholding the...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, have pledged a common response to President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the...
There were indications last night that the order of the 2019 general election was not one of the issues President Muhammadu Buhari discussed with the Senate...
President Muhammadu Buhari has threatened to sack chief executives of federal parastatals and agencies that fail to appear before the National Assembly to defend their budgets,...
The Senate on Thursday opposed an Abuja Federal High Court order stopping the National Assembly from taking any further action on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill,...
The next steps to be followed by the senate have been revealed following President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the amended electoral act sent to...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, has provided reasons behind his recent disclosure of the long-concealed exact earnings of Nigerian senators. Sani had revealed in...
Legal practitioner and rights activist, Femi Falana has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to put an end to the payment of “illegal” salaries and allowances being paid...
The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has angered a number of his colleagues for lifting the veil on the N13.5 million illegal allowances members of...
A group of physically challenged persons on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to advocate for better treatment. The group, Association of Physically Challenged Applicants, said they...
The frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly largely accounts for the delayed passage of this year’s budget, The Nation has learnt. Besides, there...
Despite probes going on at both chambers of the National Assembly, there are indications that the Federal Government may go ahead with the concession of the...
The speakers of the state houses of assembly have thrown their weight behind devolution of powers, asking that it be reintroduced in the next round of...
Ten days to the meeting of members of Egmont Group, where Nigeria will be expelled, both chambers of the National Assembly are yet to transmit a...
The Peace Corps of Nigeria has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold assent to a bill ratifying its paramilitary agency status, alleging “conspiracy against...
Despite the opposition of the National Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has maintained that presidential and National Assembly elections must hold first and on...
Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has faulted the amendment of the election timetable by the National Assembly. Jega said the...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday, took to his social media accounts to express excitement that 25 out of 36 states assemblies...
WHILE supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari appear disturbed over the reordering of the 2019 election timetable by the National Assembly, NASS, an investigation by Saturday Vanguard...
Young Nigerians are on the cusp of history as twenty-four of the thirty-six states in the country have reportedly passed the Not Too Young to Run bill, thereby...
There was panic on Thursday morning in the National Assembly, over a minor fire incident at the control room. The incident was caused by a power...
The ongoing amendment of election sequence by the National Assembly, on Wednesday, caused an uproar on the floor of the Senate. Senators loyal to President Muhammadu...
In what appears to be getting more interesting by the day, the new sequence introduced by members of the National Assembly, for the 2019 general elections,...
President Emmanuel Macron of France is billed to visit Nigeria in early July and will seek to address the joint session of the National Assembly, Ambassador...
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed nine out of the fifteen constitutional bills, including the Not Too Young to Run Bill, transmitted to it...
The Nigerian Senate said it has been vindicated on its rejection of the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
Senators are threatening to boycott the February 1 security summit organised by the upper chamber, it was learnt yesterday. They do not want the Villa Banquet...
A yet-to-be-identified top official of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) is currently in police custody for allegedly slapping a serving senator and the only...
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday signed eight bills passed by the National Assembly into law. The brief signing ceremony was held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The...