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SERAP tells Buhari: Follow “Namibia example”, ban purchase of new cars now

  Channel funds into workers’ salaries,  pensioners’ entitlements, students’ welfare   Driven by public interest and common good, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has...

Nigerian Governors to NASS: Rest “Infectious Disease Bill 2020” for now

  State governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum has intervened in the likely passage of the controversial “Infectious Disease Bill 2020”,...

Stop “Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020’’ now, civil society groups tell Gbajabiamila

  ….provisions draconian, inconsistent with civil rights, liberties Irked by the provisions of the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 now before the...

IMF approves Nigeria’s $3.4bn emergency loan

     The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday approved $3.4 billion emergency support for Nigeria to address the severe impact of the...

SERAP threatens to sue Buhari, NASS over cut in health budget

    Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given “the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly 14...

COVID-19: SERAP asks Lawan, Gbajabiamila to give N37bn NASS renovation fund to states, FCT

    Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of...

NASS to Presidential aide: Your insinuations unsavoury, unfair, baseless

  …official misled by some media misrepresentation of NASS comment on FG’s social investment programme The leadership of Nigeria’s National Assembly has frowned...

FG cuts oil benchmark to $30 per barrel for Budget 2020

The Federal Government on Wednesday proposed the reduction of oil benchmark from $57 to $30 per barrel which it projected  for 2020 Finance Act. The...

Coronavirus :  Nigeria’s House of Reps shuts down

    Coronavirus has forced the House of Representatives to shut down temporarily. At its plenary on Tuesday, the lawmakers unanimously agreed to...

We’re incensed by your non-performance, NASS tells service chiefs

      …asks Buhari to sack them   … Our cup of endurance has run over, says Gbajabiamila   Uncomfortable with the...

NASS appropriates N37bn for National Assembly Complex renovation in 2020 budget

    Kunle Akinsola   A whooping N37 billion is to be spent on the renovation of the National Assembly complex as contained...

Desecration of temple of justice: House of Reps launches probe

  Worried by the invasion of the court by the Department of State Service (DSS) to rearrest of the onvener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele...

Attack at NASS: Bala Usman petitions IG, DSS

  …wants perpetrators punished   Following an attack by some hoodlums at within the precincts of the National Assembly, the Managing Director of...

Hate speech bill: Respect views of Nigerians, Governors tells NASS

  The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), has advised the National Assembly to hold a public hearing on the hate speech bill, to ensure...

SERAP sues Buhari, NASS, others for failing to account for security votes since 1999

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed documents last Friday to sue President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate president Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker...