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Breaking: Reps want presidential system scrapped, opt for parliamentary

At least 60 House of Representatives members on Wednesday proposed a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and return the country...

Lagos Assembly worries about Naira value, urges FG, CBN to take bold steps to shore up its value

The Lagos State House of Assembly has decried the continued downward slide in the value of the naira against the dollar. As at...

Tinubu, NASS, should make kidnapping, banditry, insurgency capital offences – retired Army General, DIG

Worried by the parlous security situation in the country with existential threats, two security experts—a retired Army general and a Police Deputy Inspector-General—have...

Six people arrested over NASS members’ harassment at Kogi Governor’s office

Six people have been apprehended in connection with the harassment of National Assembly members during their visit to Gov. Yahaya Bello at the...

2024 N27.5trn budget: Tinubu targets 3.76 % economic growth, N9.18trn deficit

President Bola Tinubu has presented a N27.5 trillion budget, tagged “Budget of Renewed Hope” for the 2024 fiscal year Tinubu made the presentation...

Pres. Tinubu presents 2024 N26.1trn budget to joint session of NASS Nov. 29

President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday, November 29 present the 2024 budget estimate of about N26.1 trillion to a joint session of the...

FG okays 2024 N27.5 trn budget estimates, presents it next week to NASS

Ahead of its presentation next week to the National Assembly, a N27.5 trillion 2024 appropriation bill was on Monday approved by the Federal...

Budget of Booby Traps by Dakuku Peterside 

There is a deafening silence in the land over the state of the economy. No right-thinking person can take this silence or mood...

Akpabio, Abass get 7-day ultimatum to stop plan to spend N110bn on bulletproof cars, others

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas have been given seven days ultimatum to drop the...

Principal officers elections: We will revolt on June 13 at NASS inauguration — Sen. Kalu, other senators 

"Hold the fire until the last word is heard from us. Yes, there was no sufficient or adequate consultations with you that are...

Nigeria’s first female Senator, Franca Afegbua, passes on

Nigeria’s first female Senator, Franca Afegbua, has exited. Aged 80 years, Afegbua died in the early hours of Sunday in her Benin City...

Nigerian law allows N70m cash for lawmakers during election, says House of Rep members

The House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on Naira Redesign Policy, Cashless Policy, and Currency Swap, led by Ado Doguwa, has declared that it...

N228.1bn budget for 469 NASS members scandalous, outrageous, cut it now — SERAP

"SERAP urged them to propose a refreshed budget for the National Assembly that would reflect the current economic realities in the country, address...

Two decades after it was stuck in NASS, Buhari assents to first Mental Health Bill

Impelled to ensure that the human rights of the mentally challenged are enforced, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed the Mental Health Bill...

Just in: Pres. Buhari signs N21.8trn 2023 Appropriation Bill

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented the 2023 Appropriation Bill of N21.83 trillion. He signed the bill at the Council Chambers of the State...

Serving Senator and Governorship Candidate To Spend 42 Years Behind Bars For Money Laundering

The senator representing Akwa Ibom North East in the National Assembly, Albert Bassey has been sentenced to 42 years in jail for money...