LEGISLATURE

The Lagos State House of Assembly has directed the Clerk, Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit the resolution of the assembly on the Fifth Alteration Bill 2022 (1999 Constitution Amendment) to the National Assembly. The Chairman, House of Assembly Committee on Information, Setonji David,…

The Senate Public Accounts Committee has said it will issue a warrant of arrest against the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd.), over alleged failure of the agency to account for N10 billion. The committee’s chairman,…

Borno State Senator and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Ali Ndume, on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari should directly address the nation on the matter of insecurity, rather than issuing statements through his media advisers. The Senator made the comment…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has blamed the recent attack and freeing of terrorists inmates at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja on the failure of security across the country. He expressed disappointment over the lack of functional Closed Circuit Television…

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Inter-parliamentary Relations and ECOWAS Parliament and Foreign Affairs to appraise the benefits and contributions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) towards the socio-economic development of Nigeria and Nigerians in the…

The House of Representatives yesterday passed through second reading a bill to amend the Pension Reform Act, 2014 to exempt personnel of National Assembly Service from the contributory pension scheme and to establish the National Assembly Service Pensions Board. The Bill titled, “Bill…

The Discrimination Against Persons with Disability Prohibition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 scaled second reading in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The Bill, sponsored by Hon Babajimi Benson, seeks to amend the Principal Act, the Prohibition Against Persons with Disability Act, 2018 which provides…

The national water resources bill has passed first reading at the house of representatives. The bill is sponsored by Sada Soli, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker from Katsina state. The proposed law seeks to establish an act that would provide a regulatory framework…

The House of Representatives has inaugurated an ad hoc Committee that would commence investigation into the duplication of functions by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government. The lawmakers had in March, while adopting a motion sponsored by the Chief Whip,…

Senate spokesman, Ajibola Basiru, has said that irrespective of the ongoing defections in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will win the presidential election in 2023. Basiru made this statement when he appeared on Channels Television’s…