The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has been given 48 hours to name members of the 9th National Assembly who got sixty per...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to allow partial reopening of schools to enable students to participate in the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate...
The House of Representatives on Thursday called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to flush out armed herdsmen invading communities in Enugu State. The House...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday approved and passed the revised 2020 budget of N10.8 trillion. The House of Representatives had also a day earlier approved and...
The House of Representatives Wednesday passed the revised 2020 Appropriation Bill, increasing the national budget from the planned N10.5 trillion to N10.8 trillion. Earlier, the executive...
A joint Committee of the House of Representatives has engaged the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to account for funds allocated and donated to the...
The House of Representatives has frowned at the response President Muhammadu Buhari-led executive gave on the whereabouts of the Chinese doctors in Nigeria. At its plenary...
The Nigerian House of Representatives has approved Present Muhammadu Buhari’s request to borrow N850 billion from domestic capital market. The Reps members gave their approval for...
The Nigerian House of Representatives on Tuesday succumbed to public outcry and accepted to subject the Infectious Diseases Bill to public hearing. The House also denied...
The House of Representatives and stakeholders in the power sector on Thursday agreed to set up a joint implementation committee on the proposed two-month free power...
The House of Representatives has described as a mischief taken too far, the report that the lawmakers distributed official vehicles for the 360 members of the...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider placing a travel ban on countries with high risk of coronavirus. The request was...
The fear of the spread of Coronavirus to the National Assembly has forced the House of Representatives to adjourn for two weeks. The green chambers took...
The House of Representative on Tuesday rejected a motion to evacuate Nigerians living in China. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the South East...
A bill to have the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) separated from that of the minister of justice, on Tuesday, passed second...
The House of Representatives Thursday passed the 2019 Finance Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari after it passed its third reading. The Senate had earlier passed...
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, James Faleke, said on Thursday the House would investigate the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Closed Circuit...
The House of Representatives Committee on Works on Thursday has summoned the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola for a briefing on the state of...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has ordered adhoc committees of the House of Representatives to handover to standing committees of the House. The...
House of Representatives on Thursday faulted the plan by the Federal Government to recruit 8,000 police officers. The chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on...
There was confusion at the Federal House of Representatives on Wednesday, when the members engaged one another over the declaration of who becomes the lower chamber’s...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday highlighted miscalculations in the 2019 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. At its sitting, 42 lawmakers were observed while the...
An activist, Kayode Bello, has accused the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, Mr Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, of assault. He also said that...
Two members of the House of Representatives have announced their defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Kolawole Babatunde, who represents Akoko South East/South West...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday responded to the report of the House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness which indicted him over inappropriate approval in...
Barring any last minute changes, more members of the House of Representatives would in the next few weeks be defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress...
The Parliamentary Democrats Group, PDG, in the House of Representatives has threatened fire for fire if alleged threat to impeach the Speaker of the House is...
The All Progressives Congress has offered its aggrieved National Assembly members automatic tickets in their constituencies in a last-ditch effort to stop the impending defection of...
The lower chamber of the National Assembly has begun an investigation into allegations by electricity consumers in the country over excessive charges being levied by power...
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...
The Nigerian House of Representatives and the US Government are exploring diplomatic options to resolve the sexual misconduct allegations levelled against three lawmakers in 2016, The...
The House of Representatives committee on emergency and disaster management has summoned Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The committee summoned Osinbajo over the “illegal” suspension of directors at...
The House of Representatives said on Wednesday that lawmakers would not hesitate to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto if he withheld his assent to the Electoral...
The House of Representatives has ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, to apologize to Benue State’s Governor Samuel Ortom over comments made by...
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....
High level corruption going on in the National Assembly is delaying prompt payment of salaries and allowances of members by the management of the nation’s highest...
On Thursday, it was the turn of the House of Representatives to undertake the clause-by-clause debate of proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution. The House fared...
The House of Representatives has said that it has not dropped the Not Too Young To Run Bill, which seeks to lower the age limit for...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, Patience, has petitioned the House of Representatives, seeking protection against alleged “relentless” harassment by agents of the Federal Government, particularly the...
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on OPL 245 on Wednesday invited former President Goodluck Jonathan to testify in the investigation into the Malabu Oil deal....
Twenty four hours after the Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila faulted plans by the Senate to send a delegation to the South...
THE House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Finance, Kemi...
There is a cold war brewing between the Senate and the House of Representatives over 18 bills recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari and...
The three members of the House of Representatives exonerated of the sexual misconduct allegations levelled against them by the US Government have picked lawyers to handle...
The duo of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have both come down hard on members of the House of Representatives....
The delivery of 360 exotic cars to members of the House of Representatives has begun amid the economic downturn in the country. Investigations by The PUNCH...
THE House of Representatives on Tuesday, called on military authorities to award post humours promotions to the late Lt. Colonel Muhammad Abu-Ali, and other fallen heroes....
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, have incurred the wrath of members of the House...
The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside, has come on the spot over the award of a debt recovery...
Smarting from the raid on the homes of judges and their arrest, the House of Representatives, Thursday, intensified the process of reducing the powers of the...
