The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says of the three arms of government, legislators are the most misunderstood and attacked by Nigerians.
According to him, Nigerians blame lawmakers for everything, including things not directly under their control.
The Senate President, represented by the senator representing…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged President Bola Tinubu to sack any head of government agency that fails to turn up for the public hearing on the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) at the National Assembly.
Some of…
A bill to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria Act scaled second reading at the House of Representatives on Thursday.
The proposed amendment, according to the sponsor of the bill, Francis Waive, seeks to address critical aspects of the Act to enhance the…
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, mandated its Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control to urgently carry out a baseline survey across the six geo-political zones of the country on fake anti-malaria drugs and report back to it within four weeks.
The…
The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, to brief the green chamber on the status of the conditional cash transfer programme of the Federal Government to 15 million households.
The House, in a motion…
The Senate on Tuesday approved the nomination of Mr Zak Adedeji as Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Appearing at the upper chamber for his screening on Tuesday, Adedeji revealed his plans to improve the nation’s revenue, referring to the dearth…
Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has commenced strike action pressing for the implementation of legislative autonomy in the country.
Addressing journalists in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, yesterday, Mr Suleiman Oshafu, the chairman of the union, explained that the strike is total…
Senator Ali Ndume has called on President Bola Tinubu to sign an executive order on unexplained wealth.
Ndume, who is the lawmaker representing Borno South under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made the remark in the wake of a comment by retired…
History was made on Friday in far away oil-rich Angola, when the President of the Nigerian Senate and Leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the 147th Inter-Parliamentary Union General Assembly in Luanda, Angola, Senator Godswill Akpabio, broke a 59-year-old jinx, by being elected…
The House of Representatives has decided to intervene in the persisting conflict between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over unpaid eight months’ salary.
The decision of the lawmakers follows a unanimous adoption of a motion by Paul…