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Just in: Tinubu Signs N2.17trn 2023 Supplementary Budget

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. The president’s assent followed the speedy approval and...

CNG project: Senate requests Pres. Tinubu’s supplementary budget

The Senate Committee on Gas has urged President Bola Tinubu to send a supplementary budget to the National Assembly to facilitate the procurement...

Akpabio, Abass hauled to court over N110bn bulletproof cars, others

Incensed by the plans to spend N40 billion on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials and N70 billion as...

Fuel Subsidy And The God Of Jonathan

by Reuben Abati One of the first things that had been cited as evidence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu showing courage and wisdom...

Brain drain: Can 5-year compulsory service bill curb Nigerian medical doctors’emigration to other countries?

What the proposed legislation may achieve if passed into law would be to increase the pool of unemployed and disenchanted Nigerians rather than...

House of Reps Speaker: Male contestants should step down for me — Miriam Onuoha

Rep. Miriam Odinaka Onuoha, an aspirant for the Speaker’s position in the 10th House of Representatives, has appealed to all male contenders for...

Chatham House, London: INEC boss, Yakubu, promises Nigeria, friends of Nigeria free, fair, inclusive 2023 polls

``On the use of Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the polls, Yakubu assured that it would work perfectly during the elections as...

Petroleum Industry Bill: We can’t guarantee peace in Niger Delta if host communities fail to get 10 per cent, says nonagenarian Clark

  “We want immediate reversal of the recently passed PIB ready for harmonization by the two chambers of the National Assembly …it is...

FG to create crime proceeds recovery agency

  The Federal Government has approved the Proceeds of Crime Recovery and Management Agency Bill. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of...

30 years after, Companies and Allied Matters Bill amended, signed by Buhari

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assented to the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020 recently passed by the National Assembly to enhance...

Pres. Buhari seeks NASS nod for fresh $5.5bn foreign loan

A request for a fresh external loan of $5.513 billion has been forwarded to the Nigerian House of Representatives for approval. President Muhammadu...

New Ministers to begin work on 2020 budget

The newly sworn-in ministers are to commence work on the 2020 budget proposal, and get it ready before National Assembly members return from...

Crisis: Senate threatens to takeover Edo Assembly if Obaseki fails to meet ultimatum

•’This illegality will not stand,’ Obaseki reacts The Senate has given the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, an ultimatum of one week to...

Nigeria’s Media Freedom Seriously Threatened by National Assembly

Withdraw ‘repressive NASS media accreditation guidelines now’, SERAP tells Saraki, Dogara The journalists’ community denounced the repressive media accreditation guidelines issued by the ninth...

Buhari assures expeditious action on new minimum wage report

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that expeditious action will be taken on the report on the New National Minimum Wage. The Presidential Advisory Committee...