LEGISLATURE

Senate Committee on Public Accounts (SPAC), yesterday, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to show documents on payment of $5 million legal fees. The panel had invited the management of NIMASA to explain why the money…

The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the petroleum products subsidy regime from 2013 to 2022, has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, to appear before it on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, for questioning. Ahmed is to…

The Senate has commenced investigation into the utilisation of over N1.7 trillion Service Wide Votes spent by federal agencies outside of their approved budgets between 2017 and 2021 The Chairman of the Senate Public Account Committee, Senator Matthew Urhogbide, made this known during…

The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters has said it will not invite the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammad, for questioning over the allegations against him by 14 justices of the Supreme Court. The clerk of the…

The Senator representing Osun East and Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Customs and Excise, Francis Fadahunsi, has said that opposition parties in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, have made up their minds to sack the President of the Senate, Ahmad…

The leadership of the Senate has met with security chiefs over the rising insecurity in the country. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, in his remarks, expressed disappointment with the high level of insecurity adding that no country can be comfortable with…

Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly of Nigeria, Hon Abubakar Sulaiman, on Monday, assured Nigerians that the ongoing amendments of the 1999 Constitution transmitted by the National Assembly would be concluded this month. Hon Sulaiman gave the…

Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, yesterday, revealed that majority of senators elected on the platform of the All Progressive Party (APC) were in support of the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over failure to tackle security challenges. The Bauchi lawmaker in an interview on…

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), has stated that it is working with several international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), donor agencies and stakeholders to unveil a reviewed Nigeria Pesticide Bill for harmonisation into a single Act 2022 into the existing…

The Chairman Senate Committee on Nigerian Airforce, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, has lauded the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) for the effective deployment of the super tucano jets to fight terrorism in recent times. Recall that the military in collaboration with the Airforce have…