LEGISLATURE

Over one month after terrorists attacked the Nigerian Correctional Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, Abuja, the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, commenced an investigative hearing on the incident. While the jailbreak occurred on July 5, 2022, the House had on July 21 resolved…

The House of Representatives Committee on Finance yesterday summoned the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Sule Abdulaziz, over the $33m Azura power and other plants’ deals under the Niger Delta Power Holding Company. TCN Executive Director, Transmission Service Provider,…

The Minority caucus in the House of Representatives Saturday demanded a probe of the circumstances leading to the arrest of a Norwegian vessel suspected of carrying millions of litres of stolen Nigerian crude and recent reports of massive crude oil theft in…

The leadership of the House of Representatives on Friday resolved to intervene in the ongoing crisis in the nation’s aviation sector, with a view to resolving the face-off between the Federal Government and some international airline operators. Consequently, the Speaker, House of Representatives,…

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts is investigating the Federal Ministry of Agriculture over the award of contracts worth about N18.9bn to several companies to clear bushes during the COVID-19 lockdown. Chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke, made this known at…

Both present and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund have come under fire in the Senate for failing to justify its spending of  N17.158 billion in 2013 with required evidential documents, some of which were alleged to have been…

Members of the House of Representatives will on resumption from their two-month yearly recess begin debate on the general principles of a bill, which seeks to establish the Police Procurement Fund according to The Guardian. The private member bill sponsored by Obinna Chidoka,…

The House of Representatives has invited the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, to appear before it for questioning over issues in the payment of subsidy…

Oil marketing conglomerate A-Z Oil Nigeria Ltd yesterday urged the House of Representatives to prevail on the Federal Ministry of Finance to pay the N30 billion debt owed by the Federal Government. This was as the House Ad-hoc Committee on the Volume of…

The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the daily consumption of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) in the country has demanded details of the oil consortium involved in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Direct Sale Direct Purchase (DSDP) arrangement. The resolution of…