LEGISLATURE

The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ado Doguwa and five other aspirants have stepped down from the speaker and deputy speakership race. They stopped down at a meeting of members-elect under the auspices of the ‘10th Joint Task’ on Wednesday…

Speaker  of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, adjourned plenary indefinitely over fear of possible impeachment plot. He hinged the adjournment on the current induction by members-elect. Some lawmakers had reportedly perfected plans to impeach him over the imposition…

Some senators-elect have given indication as to who will be the next Senate President when the incoming 10th National Assembly is inaugurated on June 13, 2023. Senator-elect from Zamfara State, Sahabi Ya’u, told journalists on the sidelines of an induction programme organised for…

The Senate has directed the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and his commissioners to refund to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the sum of N594 million vehicle allowances some officials of the agencies collected. The decision was sequel to the…

The members-elect of the minority caucus of the 10th assembly have rescinded their earlier decision to present candidates for the position of speaker and deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. This was made known by one of the spokesmen of the caucus,…

The Senate has indicted the Ministry of Justice over failure to provide the details of how N10.4 billion judgment debt was disbursed to beneficiaries. This followed the consideration of the 2017 and 2018 reports of the Senate Public Accounts Committee chaired by Senator…

The leadership crisis rocking the House of Representatives, in the countdown to the inauguration next month, worsened yesterday when a group of lawmakers aspiring to be Speaker of the House rejected a meeting with the Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima. The lawmakers,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a letter to the Senate seeking approval to take a loan to the tune of $800 million from the World Bank to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. This follows the Federal Government’s April announcement of an $800…

As part of efforts to derail Godwill Akpabio’s bid to become the Senate President in the 10th Assembly, the Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, yesterday, set up a seven-member ad-hoc committee to probe the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC) for embarking on…

The House of Representatives has denied a back-door amendment of the Standing Orders of the House, which contains rules guiding the conduct of legislative business in the chamber. An online medium had in a now-deleted report claimed that the rules of the House…