Tag: National Assembly

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has urged the National Assembly to support its implementation of transformational payments and financial industry initiatives in ...

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has disclosed that N1.7 trillion projects were inserted in the budget of 14 ministries, departments and agencies. ...

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Appropriation to make provision of two hundred billion in the 2023 appropriation year, for ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted three Executive bills to the House of Representatives for consideration. They were transmitted to the House through a ...

National Drugs Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA’s chairman, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd) has said drug barons were assassinating operatives of the agency ...

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Account has accused the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and the Director General of the Budget ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday lamented that his ministry is incapacitated in the war against fake news, ...

President Buhari has presented the 2023 Appropriation Act of N20.51 trillion total expenditure estimates comprising of N10.78 trillion fiscal deficit representing 4.78 percent ...

The Federal Government is projecting 3.7% growth in Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 17% inflation rate and 1.69 million barrel daily oil production ...

Ahead of the presentation of the 2023 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and ...

The House of Representatives has rejected the National Pension Commission PenCom remittance in the sum of N1billion out of the total sum of ...

*Cites “partisanship, corruption” as reason for rejecting INEC REC nominees *Says section 156 (1) (a) of 1999 Constitution prohibits partisanship in such appointment ...

The Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) has told the Senate that termites have eaten most of the vouchers containing details of how N17.158 billion ...

At least 63 bills have been proposed before the Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advocated a bill to regulate the way children of public officers in Nigeria seek education ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the name of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola to the Senate for confirmation as the substantial Chief Justice of Nigeria, ...

A lecturer at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano, Dr. Goddy Igbaekeme, has written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, seeking ...

The leadership of one of the major opposition parties in the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the Labour Party (LP) has condemned what they ...

THE Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, has raised the alarm about how senators diverted money meant for their senatorial districts to non-existing projects, thereby ...

Legal icon and elder statesman, Chief Afe Babalola, says an interim government should replace the current administration at the expiration of President Muhammadu ...

A human rights group, Campaign for Democracy (CD), has decried the current fuel scarcity in the country, calling on the Federal Government to ...

The Federal Government has expressed worries that despite efforts and resources devoted to procuring development financing for critical sectors of the economy to ...

Former governorship aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, APC, and chairman of the Gobir Foundation Organisation, Alh Yakubu Olayiwola Gobir, has saluted President ...

Save the Children International (SCI) Nigeria, today Wednesday called on policy makers to take concrete steps to protect children with disabilities. Mercy Gichuhi, ...

The House of Representatives on Monday began the investigations of the N1.2 trillion unclaimed funds of the Federal Government in commercial banks in ...

The lawmaker representing lseyin/ltesiwaju/ Kajola/lwajowa Federal Constituency in Oyo State at the House of Representatives, Hon. Shina Peller, has sponsored a bill seeking ...

Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Maj.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim has confirmed that the service remitted over N1 billion into the ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has expressed concerns about the lack of start-up capital for Corps members after acquisition of entrepreneurial skills. ...

The Managing Consultant of Maroct Consultants Group, Mr. Uzoma Francis Ubani, (FCTI) has petitioned the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; the President ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Lawmakers to give a specific borrowings plan designed to prosecute 2022 budget a quick consideration when ...

THE Nigerian Health and Education sectors will continue to witness incessant strikes unless the economy of the nation improves, Senator Sadiq Umar, Deputy ...

Senator Umar Sadiq, an All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator, representing Kwara North Senatorial District and Chairman Senate Committee on Rules and Business has ...

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Monday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of turning the presidential villa, which belongs ...

A members of the Federal House of Representatives, from Imo State, Hon. Emeka Chinedu, has withdrew the bill he sponsor to jail protesters ...

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Hajia Muheeba Dankaka, has dismissed the allegation that her clearance and subsequent confirmation as ...

The Senate on Wednesday passed the Firearms Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2021 raising the fine for illegal importation and sale of firearms from ...

A traditional ruler in Kwara state, Oba Muftau Oloyede Gbadamosi, Esuwoye II, the Olofa Of Offa, has tasked leadership of the National Assembly ...

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Monday expressed concerns over the incessant cross carpeting into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ...

The Senate has officially reacted to the controversy trailing the move to amend the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act and the Press Council ...

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Anderson Ezeibe has faulted the Federal Government’s position to upgrade some polytechnics ...

Lawmakers have been notified of a possible attack by Boko Haram insurgents on the National Assembly complex and other public buildings in Abuja, ...

A coalition of Civil Societies Organisation in Osun State has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for what its described as the ‘non-federal nature’ of ...

The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), on Wednesday 24th of March, kicked against the bill sponsored by Hon Soloman Bob in ...

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele has said that the Apex Bank decision to prohibit deposit money banks, non-banking ...

By Admin The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was on Sunday, 20th of December, 2020 disclosed that its proposing an electoral reforms that ...

By Admin  The National Assembly was on Monday, 21st of December, 2020  passed the 2021 budget. The Senate and the House of Reps ...

By Admin Following how President Muhammadu Buhari suddenly made u-turn on his earlier promised to honour the Invitation of the National Assembly and ...