The National Assembly has forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent , the harmonised version of the bill on Nigerian Peace Corps. This was after passage by both the Senate and the House of Representatives . Transmission of the bill for Presidential assent by the Clerk to the National...
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Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has issued a 30-day ultimatum to a construction firm, Julius Berger, to complete the permanent site of National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS). Gbajabiamila, who visited the site on Thursday in Abuja, issued the ultimatum after expressing disappointment with the...
The Council of Elders, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has resolved to petition Pres. Muhammadu Buhari over the Igbo profiling in Lagos State since commencement of the 2023 general elections. The group also said they would send protest letter to the National Assembly and other relevant agencies to express their feelings...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Worried that the remains of the former Senate President, Joseph Wayas has been abandoned in a London Hospital 16 months after his demised, the Federal Government has been urged to urgently take over the burial arrangements before the end of April this year. Moving...
A socio-political group, Us4Us Movement, has canvassed the support of the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for Sen. Godswill Akpabio to be become the 10th Senate President. Convener of the group, Mr Richard Romanus, made the call during an interaction with newsmen after an extraordinary meeting...
Sen.Orji Uzor-Kalu, the Chief Whip of Senate, has signified his interest in becoming Nigeria’s 10th Senate President, should the position be zoned to the South East by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Uzor-Kalu said this when he spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. ” I will like the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says only two National Assembly (NASS) elections earlier suspended by the commission will hold along with the Saturday governorship and state assembly elections. The commission explained this in a statement issued by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it has yet to take decision on zoning of positions or offices of the 10th National Assembly as speculated in the social media. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, stated this in a statement in Abuja....
Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi has advised the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to adopt zoning formula in determining new leaders for the 10th National Assembly (NASS). The governor gave the advice when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari...
The race for the Speakership of the 10th Assembly has begun in earnest, following the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the poll, which produced Sen. Bola Tinubu as the President-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged its National Assembly (NASS) members-elect to play down on issues of zoning and leadership of the 10th Assembly. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker, House of Representatives, and Ali Ndume (APC Borno-South), spoke with State House correspondents on Monday after the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Ahead the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, some first term senators-elect from North East and North Central are rooting for the emergence of former Abia state Governor and Senate’s Majority Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the next senate President, describing him as bridge...
Mr Faliya Sharon, a public affairs analyst, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to support the aspiration of incumbent Deputy Speaker, Rep. Ahmed Wase, to emerge Speaker of the 10th Assembly. In a statement on Sunday, Sharon said that the APC should as...
The President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu is not looking for a rubber stamp National Assembly but a robust one. Senator-elect, Adams Oshiomhole, Edo North Senatorial District stated this while speaking with newsmen at the presentation of certificate of return to Senators-elect in Abuja on Tuesday. ”Our president-elect looks forward to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday issued Certificates of Return to winners of the February 25, 2023 Senatorial elections in Nigeria The Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu made the presentation at the National Collation Centre in Abuja. Yakubu had on Saturday said winners were declared for 423...
After over 20 years of its formation, pro-workers political organisation, Labour Party (LP) seems to be gradually making inroads into mainstream politics as the party has got six Senate and 34 House of Representatives seats in the February 25 National Assembly (NASS) elections. Relatively obscure in the political arena...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers has released winners of the National Assembly election conducted on Feb. 25 in Rivers. INEC announced the results in a statement issued to newsmen by the commission’s Public Affairs Officer, Mrs Geraldine Ekelemu, in Port Harcourt on Saturday. The commission announced...
The National Assembly has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to abide by the Electoral Act 2022 in the conduct of the March 11 Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawn, made the call at the close of Thursday’s plenary while also...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maidugiri – Senator-Elect, Ali Ndume, representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has expressed gratitude to the people of his constituency for reposing confidence in him through their votes in the Saturday elections. Senator Ndume said he will sustain the delivery of dividends of...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has urged the National Assembly to launch an investigation into the regulatory activities of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), accusing it of succumbing to the control of an overtly politically partisan Minister of Information to cow broadcasting stations in Nigeria...