LEGISLATURE

The Senate has passed a Bill, which seeks to establish the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Trust Fund. The bill seeks to provide a sustainable source of funds for the NYSC, skill acquisition, training and empowerment of Corps members, training and retraining of the personnel…

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, transmitted a letter to the National Assembly praying it to pass a new bill seeking to provide new salaries and allowances for judicial officers across the country. The letter read was at plenary by the Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen…

The Senate Tuesday extended the implementation period for the 2023 supplementary budget from March 31, 2024, to June 30, 2024. The Senate had in December 2023, extended implementation of the N1.3tn supplementary budget from December 31, 2023, to March 31, 2024. But the Red…

Five days after the tragic murder of Nigerian Army personnel in Delta State, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says the culprits may be mercenaries, rather than people from the Niger Delta region. Seventeen military personnel were murdered in Okuama, a community in Ughelli…

The  House of Representatives is considering a bill to empower state governors to appoint and remove judges in state High Court, a function presently performed by the National Judicial Council (NJC). The proposed legislation provides that the appointment  and removal of…

The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, to immediately halt the signing and implementation of a trade partnership with the United Kingdom (UK), which allows UK lawyers to practice within Nigeria. A motion by 49  lawmakers…

The Senate on Tuesday passed for second reading, the amendment to the Extradition Act, 2004. In his lead debate, the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti-Central), said in the proposed law, Section 2 (1) and Section 7(4) of the Act are to be…

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed through Second Reading a bill for an Act to provide for the implementation of a widowhood leave bill in Nigeria. The private member bill titled ‘Widowhood Leave Bill, 2023, sponsored by Hon. Musa Abdullahi, observed that…

The House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary has invited the Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning as well as the Secretary, National Judicial Council for deliberation over the poor remuneration of judicial officials across the country. Also invited to the meeting slated…

The Senator representing Delta North, Ned Nwoko, has disclosed that he attracted N1 billion for constituency projects. Nwoko disclosed this during a chat with Channels Television’s Seun Okinbaloye on ‘Mic On Podcast’. The revelation follows a recent interest in allocations for constituency projects for…