LEGISLATURE

Senate spokesman Ajibola Basiru has said the National Assembly will take the best decision for Nigerians, irrespective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s disposition towards the Electoral Bill. On November 19, the National Assembly transmitted the Electoral Act Amendment Bill to the President for assent. According…

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary, Hon Onofiok Luke, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria’s Justice Sector as presently constituted was bedevilled by poor funding and needed N200 billion special intervention fund to meet its competing demands and challenges. Luke…

The deputy speaker of the house of representatives, Ahmed Wase, has alleged that some officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) work with bandits to fuel insecurity in parts of the country. Wase, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker from Plateau, spoke on…

Visible Construction Company, a firm reported to have won the controversial N42.4 billion contract for the renovation of the National Assembly complex has said it got the job on merit. LEADERSHIP had last Tuesday exclusively reported that firms which bided for the contract…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, revealed the salaries and emoluments of members of the National Assembly to the public in Abuja. Lawan also said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has surpassed his predecessors on assent to bills. He…