An investigation has revealed how Nigerian lawmakers fleece tax payers by employing no fewer than 2,570 aides. According to the report, put together by the News...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that it is already investigating the budget padding allegations levelled against the Speaker of the House of...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, has declared that policemen have been barred by the Administration of Criminal...
The Senate is reportedly gearing up for a showdown with the presidency over the speculated move to secure emergency powers for President Muhammadu Buhari, aimed at...
The reported request of President Muhammadu Buhari for emergency powers over the economy has received the backing of the Organised Private Sector (OPS). The backing came...
The Muhammadu Buhari administration is obviously disturbed by the nation’s dwindling economy, and the criticisms it has attracted. The president, in efforts to tackle the situation...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, may have more than enough to contend with, as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on...
There are indications that Federal Government may have started a probe of the N300bn allocated to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2015 budgets. According...
Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara has stated that the police cannot meddle in the affairs of the House. According to him, he cannot...
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi has called on the National Assembly to fashion out constitutional responsibilities that are developmental for traditional rulers in...
The Presidency on Tuesday, said the budget signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari was not padded. This was stated by the Senior Special Assistant to...
House of Representative Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has reportedly said that the budget padding allegation, is an issue beyond the All Progressives Congress’ (APC), intervention....
A human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, has told the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to treat the current allegations of...
Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has shot down allegations of budget padding against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three principal officers of...
Peace might have finally returned to the troubled Kogi State House of Assembly, as the Speaker, Hon. Momoh Jimoh,Tuesday, threw in the towel. In his stead,...
The Federal Government, on Monday, revealed that its revenue projection in the 2016 budget fell by a whopping N1.064 trillion in the first half of the...
Femi Falana, has thrown open alleged corrupt practices the Muhammadu Buhari administration has been condoning. Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and activist, highlighted these...
To further buttress his claim of budget padding allegation, Mr Abdulmunin Jibrin has released step-by-step, details of how it happened. The former chairman, House of Representatives...
Mr. Adewale Oluwatayo, a member of the House of Representatives, from Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency of Lagos state, has died in Abuja. According to reports, he slumped and...
The Archbishop of the Anglican Communion, Enugu Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of governance may lead...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he would not let Nigerians down on the key promises he made ahead of the 2015 presidential elections. The Senior...
In order to get more evidence to nail a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the EFCC, has summoned his former Aide-de-Camp, ADC,...
A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore may be in for more troubles in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Monday night held secret talks with Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, acclaimed national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has said that the federal government is getting its priority wrong by chasing him over an alleged forgery case, which he...
The House of Representatives, Wednesday, reminded the Federal Government that it cannot utilise monies that has accrued in the Treasury Single Account, TSA, without the approval...
The House of Representatives has warned the Federal Government against acts capable of crippling the National Assembly, adding that it must desist from its planned prosecution...
The National Assembly (nass) has come under serious attack over Saturday’s proposal for immunity and life pension for the Senate President and Speaker of the House...
The House of Representatives, at the weekend, accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Abubakar Malami, of misleading the federal government...
The House of Representatives, at the weekend, accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, AGF, Abubakar Malami, of misleading the federal government...
Peeved by the continued disobedience of its resolution and order on the crisis plaguing the Kogi State House of Assembly, the House of Representatives, Tuesday, summoned...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Wednesday, said it was putting finishing touches to a comprehensive proposal for constitutional and legal amendments to the Electoral Act....
President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday night, appealed to the National Assembly to speedily pass the bills before it. The bills, according to the President, included the money...
By Abubakar D. Sani… For the following reasons, I believe that no attempt at ending the costly, unsustainable fuel subsidy programme in Nigeria will succeed unless...
Forces in the presidency are engaged in a battle of wits with Senate President, Bukola Saraki over the appointment of an Acting Clerk to the National...
The Treasury Single Account of the Federal Government, TSA, has again come under attack, as the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, has opposed the...
Despite the motion by the National Assembly taking over the functions of the Kogi State House of Assembly and directing the state Governor Yahaya Bello to...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, has been taken to task by a group, Campaign for Democracy, CD, over his promise that the National...
Great expectations, that was the feeling of many Nigerians as they watched with rapt attention last Friday when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has commended Nigerians for their patience while awaiting presidential assent to the 2016 Appropriation Act and promised that the National...
The imbroglio occasioned by the 2016 budget has finally come to an end, as President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday afternoon, signed the appropriation document into law. With...
The National Assembly on Thursday quietly handed over what they said was a clean copy of the 2016 Budget to the presidency for assent. The document...
The House of Representatives, Thursday, ordered the immediate re-seal of the Kogi State House of Assembly until the resolution of the crisis rocking the assembly. The...
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied the existence of any bill for the creation of grazing reserves before the National Assembly. Ekrem also vowed...
The Kogi State Government has approached the Supreme Court asking it to nullify the resolution of the House of Representatives taking over the function of the...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, finally met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday evening at the Presidential Villa, Abuja over the lingering 2016 budget impasse The Senate...
The controversies surrounding that appointment of an Acting Clerk to the National Assembly may take time to settle, as the National Assembly Service Commission, Tuesday, rejected...
President Muhammadu Buhari may have begun moves to resolve the 2016 budget impasse, as he met, on Monday, behind closed doors with a former Senate President,...
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, has decried the delay in signing and implementing the 2016 budget, lamenting that the situation is already presenting the country...
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally written the National Assembly over the 2016 budget, pointing out the discrepancies in the Appropriation Bill passed by the federal lawmakers....