LEGISLATURE

Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has called on the Federal Government to try suspected oil thieves for treason. Gbajabimila made this call while presenting the vote of thanks after President Muhammadu Buhari laid the 2023 Appropriation Bill, titled: “Budget of fiscal sustainability and transition” to a…

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Friday (today) lay the 2023 Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. Ahead of the Federal Government budget presentation, the House of Representatives, on Thursday, passed the 2023–2025 Medium…

The House of Representatives has commenced a probe of federal government properties in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Speaker of the House Femi Gbajabiamila, while declaring the probe open on Thursday, said the investigation became imperative, owing to a large number of…

The Senate yesterday rejected a report by its Committee on Finance to reduce N3.6 trillion proposed for subsidy in the 2023 budget by the executive to N1.7trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari had in the 2023 – 2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal…

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Senate has confirmed the nomination of 19 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It also confirmed on Wednesday, the nomination of Muhammad Sabo Lamido as Executive Commissioner, Finance and Accounts for…

The House of Representatives has commenced the process of scrapping and merging ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with its Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Duplication of Functions of Agencies of the Federal Government commencing the move to reduce…

The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating joint venture operations between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) and its partners yesterday queried the spending of about $10 billion on the completion of the Escravos Gas-to-Liquids (EGTL) project as against the original contract…

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday evening received the House of Representatives’ report on its intervention in the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), promising to study and meet the legislators again. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila,…

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the incessant collapse of Nigeria’s power grid and the failure of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, decrying the negative impact on the economy. At the plenary on Tuesday, the House mandated its Committee on Power…