The Senate, the House of Representatives, Taraba, Ekiti and Benue state governments on Wednesday berated the Minister of Defence, Maj.Gen. Musur Dan-Ali (retd.), for calling on state governments to suspend their anti-open grazing laws, describing the call as illegal. While…
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has assured Nigerians that the long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill law will be ready before the end of this legislative season. Saraki While giving the status of the bill, which has passed through various readings at…
Twenty one senators, which represent about 21 per cent of the 109 lawmakers at the Upper legislative chamber, are currently facing criminal charges in the courts or are under intense investigation or interrogation by the security operatives or anti-graft agencies.…
The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly has responded to Thursday’s judgment of the Federal High Court voiding its suspension of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (APC – Delta Central) for 90-days. In a Monday statement signed by Chairman, Senate Committee on…
Masked operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) stormed the premises of the National Assembly yesterday, causing tension among lawmakers, journalists and other workers. There was a standing directive barring security men from entering the NASS premises with arms.…
After almost 18 years of been in the woods without clear consideration by successive governments and the legislature, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally received the harmonized copy of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) from the National Assembly for assent…
The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Center), a non-governmental and development organization, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to remove all illegal allowances inserted by the National Assembly in the 2018 budget HEDA also asked the Nigerian president to…
The news of the confirmation of the humungous amount of money collected every month by members of the Senate as running expenses hit Nigerians like a thunder bolt. In the past, there have been unsubstantiated rumours about the exact…
A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide, says President Muhammadu Buhari should not be condemned for withholding his assent on the amended Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly. Mr Oladotun Hassan, the President of the group, made…
Parents of the 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls on Thursday marched to the National Assembly to register their pains with the federal lawmakers in continuation of their clamour for the release of the pupils abducted by Boko Haram terrorists penultimate week.…