LEGISLATURE

The House of Representatives’ Adhoc Committee probing the state of refineries has queried the $50 million contract awarded to Maire Tecnimont Nigeria limited by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) for integrity test of the country’s refineries. Chairman of the House Adhoc…

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has mandated the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to, as a matter of urgency, wade into the crisis presently rocking the Judiciary. Lawan, as confirmed by his Special Assistant on Press, Dr Ezrel…

President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan has said the upper chamber would next Wednesday screen the seven ministerial nominees forwarded to it by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation. Lawan stated this in an announcement yesterday, moments before the Senate adjourned plenary. “The…

President Muhammadu Buhari, has written to the National Assembly, seeking speedy consideration and passage of the Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. In a letter, dated June 17 and addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the president…

Senators Francis Ezenwa Onyewuchi (Imo East) and Haliru Dauda Jika (Bauchi Central) have dumped their political parties. Onyewuchi dumped the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) for Labour Party(LP) while Jika defected from the All Progressives Congress(APC) to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Their letters…

Three senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have resigned their membership of the party. They are: Ahmad Babba-Kaita (Katsina North), Lawal Yahaya Gumau (Bauchi South) and Francis Alimikhena (Edo North). Whilst Babba-Kaita and Alimikhena joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Gumau pitched…

The Senate on Tuesday named Senator Philip Tenimu Aduda (FCT) as the new Minority Leader. Senator Chukwuka Utazi was also named the Senate Minority Whip. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, announced the appointments while reading two separate letters signed by the National Secretary of…

The Senate, on Tuesday, considered a bill seeking to establish the Police Pension Board. The bill which scaled second reading on the floor was sponsored by Senator Elisha Ishaku (Adamawa North). The bill was read for the first time on June 14th, 2022. Leading…

The House of Representatives’ public account Committee, has threatened to sanction officials of the Ministry of environment for allegedly auctioning 12 River Basins, even though the Minister for Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, admitted that the Ministry under his command erred in law,…

Seventeen members of the Kogi House of Assembly have impeached four principal officers over alleged acts of gross misconduct. The House also suspended three other lawmakers. The impeachment and suspension took place on the floor of the House at an emergency sitting…