The National Assembly joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously rejected the judiciary budget. It also gave the Minister of National Planning and DG budget 24 hours to appear before it, over poor budgetary allocation to the Nigerian judiciary, an act they...
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The National Assembly has promised to put an end to the incessant interruption of academic activities in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. The Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Education, made the pledge when Vice Chancellors (V-Cs) of federal universities and Prof. Chris Maiyaki, Acting Executive Secretary of...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has appealed to the Federal Government to ensure an upward review of the budgetary provisions for education in the 2024 appropriation bill before the National Assembly. ASUP President, Mr Anderson Ezeibe, said this at a news conference, ahead of the union’s...
The House of Representatives has restated its commitment to remove tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), to enhance lecturers’ welfare and reduce the brain drain syndrome. Speaker House of Representatives, Dr. Abbas Tajudeen, made this known on Thursday in Zaria at the...
Some lawmakers in the third Republic, numbering over 18, on Wednesday besieged the National Assembly, demanding the payment of their entitlements and salaries. Mr Basil Okafor, a third republican lawmaker who led the delegation to the House of Representatives in Abuja, said they had not been paid their...
Sen. Iyiola Omisore (APC- Osun) has said there’s nothing like budget padding, as it in the responsibility of the National Assembly to approve the yearly budget of the executive. Omisore, also a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, said this at a one-day citizens ‘ town...
President Bola Tinubu did not present empty budget boxes before the National Assembly, according to the Chairman, Northern Caucus, Alhassan Doguwa. Doguwa, who addressed newsmen on Friday in Kano, strongly denied that Tinubu presented empty budget boxes before the national assembly. He said, ” What people don’t know...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday sought approval of the National Assembly to spend N61.6 billion 2023 supplementary budget. Wile made the appeal when he appeared before the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on FCT at the National Assembly complex...
Budget of Renewed Hope Delivered By: His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Wednesday, November 29, 2023 1. In furtherance of my sacred duties and obligations as President of the Federal...
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday presented a budget of N27.5 trillion for 2024 to the National Assembly for approval. Presenting the budget tagged ‘’Budget of Renewed Hope’’, Tinubu said that it main focus was on national defence, internal security, local job creation and macro-economic stability. He said that...
President Bola Tinubu will present the 2024 budget estimate to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Reliable sources in the upper chamber informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday. The sources said the President had written to both the President of the Senate,...
By JACOB KUIBEKA, Abuja – President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has reshuffled the leadership of some of its standing committees of the Upper Chamber of the 10th National Assembly. The shake-up, announced by the President of the Senate on Tuesday, affects 28 committees of the Senate. The announcement,...
A cross section of youths in Plateau have called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to review the recent Court of Appeal judgments that sacked some members of the National Assembly from the state. Mr Patrick Jatau, who spoke on behalf of the youths during a peaceful protest on...
The National Assembly said it was determined to train heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Government on the imperatives of legislative compliance. The training is also meant to warn MDAs from further violating resolutions passed by NASS in pursuit of strengthening democracy and good governance in...
The latest media report that lawmakers in the Green Chamber have started taking delivery of their Sports Utility Vehicles, has again confirmed as true the argument that history cannot ordinarily repeat itself; rather, it is the people that are in the habit of repeating history. According to reports, the...
President Bola Tinubu, has presented the 2023 Supplementary Budget of N2.1 trillion to the National Assembly. The request was contained in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday. The letter reads: “It has now become necessary to make further provision for additional palliative...
The National Assembly has pledged an improved budgetary provision for cancer care in the country. Chairmen of Health Committees of the 10th National Assembly made the pledge at the legislative dialogue on health which held in Lagos. The dialogue, with the theme: ‘Sustainable Cancer Care Financing in Nigeria’...
By SOLA AFUYE (National Assembly Correspondent) The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Ph.D, has disclosed that the annual budget of the National Assembly has been stagnant for 13 years despite inflation and attendant consequences. The Speaker said that notwithstanding, the...
The Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio says the 10th National Assembly will not review the social media regulation bill since there are laws already guiding the use of the media. Akpabio was represented by the Senate Committee Chairman on ICT, Sen. Shuiab Salisu, at the Parliamentarian Symposium of...
Rep Paul Nnamchi (LP-Enugu State) has rejected the judgment of the three-man panel of the National Assembly Election Tribunal which nullified his election. The panel on Friday sacked him from the NASS and declared the candidate of PDP winner of the election. This is contained in a...