The House of Representatives has advanced a bill seeking to restructure Nigeria’s budgeting framework through a constitutional amendment that would enforce fiscal discipline, transparency, and long-term national planning. The bill, sponsored by Hon. Nkemkanma Kama, was debated during Tuesday’s plenary and subsequently passed for second reading. Leading the debate, Kama said the proposed amendment to […]
Last Saturday, the Eastern Bar Forum (the EBF) held its quarterly meeting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Amongst other things, it resolved to reject the proposed amendment of the Constitution for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and subsequently issued directives to all branches of the NBA in the East to withdraw any memoranda they must have […]
In what appears to be a constitutional crisis, the Executive and Legislative arms of government have for over two weeks been pitched in a battle over the recent amendments made by the National Assembly. And perhaps to be able to have an overhand in the ongoing war, the Executive Arm of the Federal Government last […]