LEGISLATURE

The President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan has said that the Federal Government’s 2009 agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was signed in error. Lawan said this during a meeting with the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments (CoSAP) is out to push for total cancellation of all debts owed by African nations. Gbajabiamila, who spoke during the ongoing first…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday quizzed the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) Limited, Mr Mele Kyari over the $1.55 billion contracts for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refinery. In his opening address, Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee…

The Senate, on Tuesday, amended the Electoral Act 2022, to allow ‘statutory delegates’, all those elected to participate and vote in the conventions, congresses or meetings of political parties. This followed the expeditious consideration of a bill during plenary, which scaled first, second…

The much awaited constitution amendment is now with the State House of Assemblies. The Clerk to the National Assembly, Arch Amos Ojo, had on March 29, 2022 transmitted 44 Constitution Review Bills to the Clerks of the State Houses of Assembly for concurrence.…

The House of Representatives has again called for an emergency sitting to be held on Monday, April 9, 2022 to discuss critical issues of national importance. This is the second emergency sitting to be held by the House within one week. The House…

Ongoing efforts toward tackling corruption ravaging the country gained a boost on Wednesday, as the House of Representatives passed the bill which seeks to ensure effective and efficient administration of justice in criminal and related proceedings is not prejudiced by the unwillingness…

The leadership of the House of Representatives is to intervene in the arrest and arraignment of a member from Rivers State, Farah Dagogo. The decision of the House is sequel to a motion raised by Honourable Chisom Dike calling for the urgent…

The workers at the National Assembly under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria have rejected the proposed skeletal payment of outstanding National Minimum Wage by the National Assembly Service Commission. PASAN threatened to embark on industrial action if the management of…

The House of Representatives has made a U-turn on its indefinite resumption over renovation of the National Assembly Complex. The House will hold plenary on Wednesday to consider and pass three bills on corruption and terrorism, according to a statement issued on Sunday…