The Senate on Tuesday adopted the report of the Conference Committee set up with the House of Representatives to harmonise the ‘Bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps’.
The Conference Committee set up earlier in the year by both the…
The House of Representatives on Tuesday condemned calls for an interim government in Nigeria after May 29, 2023.
The lawmakers feared that such calls is capable of truncating the country’s young democracy and causing anarchy across the country.
This followed a motion of urgent…
The Senate through its Public Accounts Committee has queried the State House and 557 Ministries, Departments and Agencies over the failure to account for N969 billion “intangible assets” in the 2019 budget.
This revelation is contained in the 2019 Annual Report of the…
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) on Friday said the N500 fraud allegation against staff members of its National Assembly leadership is false.
Reports had emerged that top officials of the National Assembly branch of PASAN were interrogated by operatives of the…
The National Assembly yesterday passed the Federal Audit Service Bill which prescribes, among others, a five-year jail term for accounting officers, who prevent the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation from accessing their account books.
The Senate concurred with the House of…
A Bill to amend the Federal High Court Act, Cap. F12, Laws of the Federation, 2004 with a view to providing for the increase in the number of Judges from 100 to 150, scaled through Second Reading on the floor of the…
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, approved the request by the Federal Government to borrow $973,474,971.38 from China Development Bank.
This followed the decision by the China-Exim Bank to reject Nigeria’s $22,798,446,773 loan request earlier approved by the National Assembly.
The Chairman of the…
The Senate on Tuesday, extended the implementation of the capital component of the 2022 budget from 31st March, 2023 to 30th June, 2023
The extension followed a lead debate by the senate leader, Senator Gobir, Ibrahim (Sokoto East-Senate Leader) requesting the upper chamber…
The House of Representatives’ will on April 11, 2023, grill ministers and other heads of ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government as well as oil companies and banks over the alleged illegal sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil…
The spokesman for the ninth Senate and the lawmaker representing the Osun Central Senatorial District, Senator Ajibola Basiru, has kicked against zoning of leadership positions in the 10th Assembly.
Basiru said in an exclusive interview with Sunday PUNCH that if all geopolitical zones…
