A national officer of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Yekini Nabena has alleged plans by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to retain the leadership of the National Assembly in the next dispensation, cautioning the leadership of the APC not to sit idly by and watch a repeat of its mistake in 2015. Nabena who […]
Read More In the mood of postponement, the Nigeria’s National Assembly has announced the postponement of its resumption scheduled for Tuesday February 19 to Tuesday Feb. 26. The Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, made this known in a statement on Sunday. He said the postponement became necessary following the postponement of the Presidential and […]
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Members of the organised labour have vowed to moblise workers to the National Assembly to attend the Public Hearing on the new minimum wage bill scheduled to hold on Monday. Addressing journalists after a meeting of the Central Working Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the President, Ayuba Wabba said that labour will be […]
Read More Activities at the National Assembly have been paralyzed as the staff under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, yesterday, made good their threat to embark on a four-day strike. The workers who are demanding the payment of arrears of 28 percent increase in their salaries since 2010, stormed the National Assembly in the […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to signed 4 Bills passed by the National Assembly into law. The Bills were Corporate Manslaughter Bill of 2018; the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Skill Fund Amendment Bill of 2018; N.C.P.E.A (Child Protection and Empowerment) Amendment Bill 2018 and the Courts and Tribunals Standard Scale of Fines Bill of 2017. According […]
Read MoreThe former Chief of Army Staff during the Second Republic, Lt. Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd), has criticised members of the the National Assembly, saying they are a “bunch of clowns.” According to the 77-year-old, the federal lawmakers “are the most dishonourable people I knew in the world”. Gen. Akinrinade, who was also the Chief of […]
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The Senate, on Wednesday, made a move to review four bills passed by the National Assembly which the Presidency said it would not assent to. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, while acting when President Muhammadu Buhari was on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, had written to the Senate that he withdrew his assent to the […]
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Both chambers of the National Assembly on Wednesday approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari for a $500m Eurobond. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had made the request as acting President, while Buhari was away on medical vacation in the United Kingdom. The bond, as explained in a letter to the Senate and House of Representatives, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Assembly to approve his administration’s external borrowing plan of $29.96bn amid recession for the execution of key programmes and infrastructural projects across the country. According to correspondent, the sum, if approved, will be spent on projects in this year’s budget and up till 2018. The President also sought […]
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The reconciliation committee of the National Assembly on the 2016 budget may return the corrected details of the appropriation bill to President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday (today), findings revealed on Friday. The committee is chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Suleiman Lasun. A second committee from the side of the executive […]
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Scores of protesting youths under the aegis of Occupy National Assembly, on Tuesday, besieged the premises of the federal parliament and demanded the immediate resignation of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The youths made up of various Civil Society Organisations and students, were also demanding that the federal lawmakers should immediately revisit the grey areas […]
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[su_dropcap]L[/su_dropcap]ike President Muhammadu Buhari, many members of the National Assembly, including some principal officers, are demanding from the leadership of the national legislature, details of the 2016 budget just approved, The Nation report. President Buhari is insisting on seeing the details approved by the National Assembly before appending his signature to the budget. However, it […]
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