LEGISLATURE

Senate President Ahmad Lawan yesterday warned MultiChoice Nigeria not to dare the Federal Government by hiking the tariffs of its products while the matter is being investigated. Lawan spoke while inaugurating a seven-member ad hoc committee, headed by Senate Deputy Chief Whip Aliyu…

Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has launched a mobile application, named Reprezentme, designed to track the activities of legislators and enhance representative democracy in Nigeria. Performing the Zoom launch, at the weekend, he said the app would bridge the gap between…

Two years after it got Presidential approval to give the National Assembly a face-lift, the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) will begin the renovation of the sprawling edifice this week. Thirty-seven billion naira was voted for the project in the 2020 Appropriation Act…

The House of Representatives has urged the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) to suspend further implementation of the Hajj Savings Scheme pending the investigation of the scheme by its committee on Hajj affairs. It also mandated the committee to review the agreement…

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Telecommunications and Banking and Currency to look into the cases of telephone subscribers who have fallen victims to breach of their privacy and identity theft to identify inadequacies in the relevant regulatory frameworks…

The Senate has reviewed the Copyright Act 2004 to make it an offence to broadcast any digital or online work of a performer without first obtaining their consent. The proposed legislation, which the Senate passed on Wednesday, was titled, ‘A Bill for an…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has disclosed that several ad-hoc and standing committees set up by the House to carry out various tasks that had failed to present their reports within the stipulated time frame would be…

The House of Representatives is in receipt of a bill seeking to prohibit crossdressing in Nigeria. The bill, sponsored by a member, Muda Lawal Umar, passed first reading on Tuesday. Though objectives of the bill will only be debated at the second reading,…

The Senate Tuesday passed a bill seeking to establish a Federal University of Medical Sciences and Biomedical Technology across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. The bill was passed during plenary after the chamber considered a report on it by the Committee on…

Bills to mandate multinational companies operating in the country to appoint qualified Nigerians as their Chief Executive Officers have passed first reading in the House of Representatives. The proposed legislation titled, “Multinational Companies Appointment of Chief Executives (Regulatory) Bill, (HB 1933) and…