A new battle line may have been drawn between the two presiding officers of the National Assembly and the Presidency over the new amendments to the...
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that despite the widespread perception that the National Assembly is being overfunded, it is actually grappling...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),Boss Mustapha, Thursday hinted that the Federal Government may not fully implement the 2018 budget if the National...
The Senate has reacted to an alleged claim by the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, that the National Assembly was responsible for the...
In an outright rejection of the allegation of padding the yet-to-be passed 2018 budget, the executive arm of government, yesterday, described as spurious and mischievous, claims...
The Senate will, at the plenary on Thursday (today), debate the proposed withdrawal of $1bn from the Excess Crude Account by the Federal Government to fight...
The National Assembly has yet to approve the request by the Presidency to move N135.6bn to other pressing sub-heads in the 2017 budget five months after...
Twenty more exotic cars imported for members of the House of Representatives have arrived at the National Assembly in Abuja, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Findings...
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has argued that restructuring Nigeria was inevitable, pointing to signs from the different regions showing increasing gravitation towards the concept. Ekweremadu...
THE leadership of the House of Representatives has urged the citizenry not to expect the final budget in less than three months. Chairman, House Committee on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly. He conveyed his decision via a letter to the Senate. The bills...
The leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly has forwarded copies of amendments of the 1999 Constitution to State Houses of Assembly for concurrence, Ripples...
According to details of the proposed 2018 budget released by the Budget Office of the Federation, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo plan to spend...
In spite of a dinner rapprochement in the week, the National Assembly has launched a fresh plot for the removal of the Acting Chairman of the...
Some members of the House of Representatives Thursday protested President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to present the 2018 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly....
The Senate, on Thursday, said it will soon begin a holistic investigation into issues surrounding the concession and privatisation of some government properties in the Federal...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said there were no ulterior motives behind its special dinner with members of the National Assembly scheduled for Tuesday,...
Reports emerged Tuesday night that embattled Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, may be trying to lobby members of...
Some senators Monday said the executive arm of government was still suffering from military hangover. The senators said frequent claims that the National Assembly had no...
Some stakeholders in the aviation sector, including members of the National Assembly, are worried that investors from some Middle East countries are expressing interest in the...
The unending frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly may deepen following renewed pressure on the former by the latter to as a matter...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the North East Development Commission Bill into law. In a...
Strong indications emerged Wednesday that the Senate may soon commence moves to scrap some “moribund departments and agencies” of the Federal Government. According to the Deputy...
A former minister of education, Oby Ezekwesili has stated that the National Assembly’s lack of “individual and institutional integrity” had prevented it from being an effective...
The Presidential Committee on the North-East Initiative (PCIN) has raised alarm over the rising cases of sexual violence against displaced persons in camps across the North-East,...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday confirmed that the amendments to the 1999 Constitution in the last review process had yet to...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has stoked fresh controversy around the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), stating that...
Following a resolution by Nigeria’s Senate summoning the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and her colleague, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, over...
The Presidency has indicated that it would forward a request for intraministerial virement to the National Assembly when the parliament resumed plenary tomorrow. This is to...
Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, Saturday said that he would stand against the controversial bill seeking to regulate Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) in Nigeria because...
With the Nigerian Peace Corps bill recently passed by the National Assembly still awaiting presidential assent to become law, the Lagos State police command, on Friday...
Both chambers of the National Assembly are proposing some changes to budgeting in Nigeria, which may be passed into law before end of the year, and...
There are strong indications that the National Assembly will ratify anti-corruption treaties signed by President Muhammadu Buhari with the government of the United Arab Emirates. To...
Foremost Niger-Delta leader, Edwin Clark, Tuesday vehemently condemned the Biafran agitation led by Nnamdi Kanu, stating that he lacked a proper grasp of the issues and...
Following the controversies that have continued to trail the issue of hate speech over its actual definition, Senator Shehu Sani has asked the National Human Rights...
Senator Soji Akanbi representing Oyo South has said that the failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2014 National Conference report might not be unconnected...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has called on Nigerians to judge the Upper Chamber of the 8th National Assembly...
There are strong indications that the coalition of northern youths will soon start lobbying members of the National Assembly to include referendum in the ongoing constitution...
The 2017 budget proposal of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) amounting to N234 billion has stalled in the National Assembly. The budget was presented by NPA...
Following the alarm raised by Edwin Clark over a letter expressing unease and impatience with the Federal Government’s stated delay in facilitating engagement, NIGER DELTA Revolutionary...
Following widespread backlash over the failure of both houses of the National Assembly to pass some significant amendments which form part of the essence of a...
Feelers from the just concluded retreat of the joint committee of the National Assembly on the review of the 1999 Constitution, which held weekend in Lagos,...
The Senate on Wednesday again warned the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to desist from attacking the National Assembly. It said the...
Lagos lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to sue the National Assembly to the Supreme Court for inserting...
The Supreme Court on Friday, threw out two lawmakers from the National Assembly as it faulted the elections that brought them in. The affected lawmakers; Herman...
Last week’s sharp disagreement between the Presidency and the National Assembly, over the 2017 budget, may take a new twist, as lawmakers have vowed not to...
The Senate is one of the chambers in Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The National Assembly is the nation’s highest law-making body, whose power to...
The Upper Legislative Chamber of the National Assembly, on Tuesday, instructed its committee on Environment to commence investigations into the implementation of the Ogoni cleanup exercise....
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, sought the approval of the National Assembly for $1,492, 400,000.00 loan for 10 states. The loan is part of the...
Members of the National Assembly are currently subscribing to a mortgage facility that will make each lawmaker cough out N2.5m every month, SUNDAY PUNCH has reliably...