AHEAD of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, lawmakers-elect have begun the race for the Senate president’s seat. The 10th Assembly will be inaugurated in June 2023 after the swearing-in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on May 29. In the red Chamber, the 10th Assembly will be populated …
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The National Assembly Service Commission has approved the appointment of the controversial Secretary of Finance and Accounts, Sani Tambuwal, as the acting clerk of the National Assembly. Tambuwal’s appointment is coming after the former Clerk, Amos Ojo, went on compulsory retirement leave last Monday. According to the statement …
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While some of them, both in the Senate and House of Representatives, are aspiring for other elective positions, others failed to secure the tickets of their parties to re-contest parliamentary elections. Few others chose not to seek re-election based on the political exigencies they found themselves in. Prominent among such …
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The Southern Senators’ Forum has urged State Houses of Assembly across the nation to expedite action on the Review of the 1999 Constitution as transmitted to them by the National Assembly, adding that this would be an Independence anniversary gift to Nigerians if done as such. The Chairman of the …
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Fire, on Thursday, engulfed a store in the House of Representatives section of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. At about 6pm on Thursday, passers-by who noticed smoke coming out from a store on the second floor of the New Building, House of Reps Wing of the Complex, raised the …
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The National Assembly Complex’s ongoing rehabilitation will cost N30.222 billion, according to Malam Musa Bello, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, or FCT. He stated this on Thursday when the Senate Committee on FCT carried out an oversight visit to various project sites being constructed by the Federal Capital Territory …
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The National Assembly has passed amendments to the 2022 Appropriation Act and 2022 Fiscal Framework, which raised the deficit in the Federal Government’s budget by N965.42 billion to N7.35 trillion. The Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, considered and adopted reports on the amendment bills at the plenary on …
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Since last Tuesday, women from different groups have blocked the entrance to the National Assembly, demanding the lawmakers rescind the rejection of the 5 bills on women. The National Assembly had voted against the bill to create extra seats for women, alongside four other bills that are gender-related in the …
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Some Senior Advocates of Nigeria on Monday rejected the proposed immunity clause for the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate President just as voting on the amendment to the 1999 Constitution begins on Tuesday (today). The Joint Senate and House of Representatives …
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Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has restated the constitutional role of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), on the monitoring of accruals and disbursements of revenue from the Federation Account, pointing that the powers of the commission as constitutionally stated do not relate …
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