Contrary to reports by a section of the media that Department of State Services (DSS) officers stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly, sealing offices of the Speaker and his deputy, it was the Assembly that invited security agents to maintain order. In a letter dated 14 February, 2025, the Assembly management told security agencies […]
Labour Party (LP) lawmakers in the House of Representatives have clashed over the recent call by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC). It will be recalled that the member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/Umuahia South, Hon. Obi Aguocha in a statement on Monday picked holes […]
A non-governmental organization, identified as the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners (ALDRAP), has initiated a court process seeking an order to compel 40 Nigerian lawmakers to vacate their seats at the National Assembly. The group argued that it is wrong for the lawmakers in question to hold concurrent membership of the National Assembly […]
Honourable Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia) has submitted that pressure from constituents demanding solution for various needs might be killing lawmakers at the National Assembly. Kalu made his submission speaking to newsmen after the House adjourned sitting to mourn Ossy Prestige (APGA-Abia), who passed away after a brief illness in Germany at the age of 56. Between […]
Some United Kingdom lawmakers have written the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland QC, over widespread violence in Nigeria, Saharareporters reports. The lawmakers including Caroline Cox, David Alton, Jin Shannon and Helena Kennedy, said thousands of civilians in the country had been killed and elements of the Nigerian Government may be complicit in the violence. Others, who […]
A lawmaker in the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Hon. Tijjani Muhammad Aliyu has drawn the attention of the Assembly, the Executive in the state and the security agencies to the emergence of Sara-Suka political thugs in Azare town, Katagum Local Government Area of the state. Hon. Aliyu who is also the Majority Leader of […]
‘If the lawmakers want to truly justify the bribe they have taken from foreign producers of COVID-19 vaccines, they should make a law that will provide for compulsory vaccination of all the legislators in the country as a way of proving their patriotism to the Nigerian federation. Let them volunteer to be the guinea pigs’ the […]
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa yesterday announced the reinstatement of four lawmakers who were earlier put on suspension by the House. Obasa said that the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress called a meeting on Tuesday to intervene in the crisis […]
The Lagos State House of Assembly has sealed up the offices of four lawmakers, comprising two sacked principal officers and two members who were suspended indefinitely through voice votes at plenary on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two lawmakers that are suspended on Monday were Mr Moshood Oshun (Mainland Constituency […]
Senators – Sen. Stella Oduah (PDP, Anambra) on Thursday sponsored a motion alongside five other lawmakers on ‘the need to establish a Visionary Budget-Driven National Planning Framework for Nigeria’. READ ALSO: Kaduna attacks: Senator calls for new strategies to tackle security challenges Speaking with journalists after plenary, Oduah said the motion was about having a […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges on Wednesday barred journalists from covering the hearing on alleged infractions of House rules by four ranking lawmakers of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Chairman of the House committee, Rep. Kolawole Lawal immediately the proceedings began, barred journalists from covering the hearing. He asked one […]
You are about to corrupt youthful impression, to join the brigade of closet psychopaths for whom the only solution to any social malaise from the trite to the profoundly affective is – Kill! Is this what humanity and society are all about? Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, has asked the national assembly. Soyinka on Friday […]
Mr. Enefaa Georgewill, Chairman, Rivers Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Thursday advised Rivers House of Assembly on the modalities to boost security in the state. Georgewill gave the advice while addressing a newsmen in Port Harcourt. READ ALSO We don’t want to experience herdsmen attack – Corps members cries out He said that it had […]
Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto Diocese has said the salary of the 360 Members of the Federal House of Representatives in Nigeria – each receives 25 million Niara (nearly $70,000) a month – can create jobs for almost 50,000 people, pegging the salary at 92,000 Naira! This came as he also recommended that a […]
A peep into the history of attempts seeking regulation of non-profitable organizations (NPOs) in Nigeria will reveal that no bill has ever received the level of knocks like the NGO Bill sponsored by late Honorable Umar Buba Jibril and presented before the outgone 8th Assembly. The reasons for such knocks were built on the fact […]
…Demands immediate redeployment of police boss …As police fail to arrest thugs with 18 Ak47 riffles in Assembly The crisis rocking Akwa Ibom state House Assembly reached its boiling point yesterday following forceful entry of the sacked five lawmakers into the hallow chambers with thugs and heavily armed policemen. Eyewitness account revealed that the sacked […]
…It’s not true, says APC The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disclosed that it is concluding discussions with about six state governors and members of the National Assembly elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of their defection to the PDP. The party said it has already concluded discussions with six […]
Legislative aides to the federal lawmakers at the National Assembly have threatened to shut down the federal Parliament if their alleged owed allowances totalling N5.8billion are not paid before the resumption date of the National Assembly on September 25. The legislative aides in their hundreds made the threat on Tuesday at the central lobby of […]
The deputy governor of Imo state, Prince Eze Madumere, has been impeached by the state lawmakers amidst tight security At an emergency sitting held at hallow chamber of the House of Assembly on Monday with 19 members in attendance, the Majority Leader, Hon Luguard Osuji moved the motion for adoption of the panel report submitted […]
…Says bill unconstitutional, a replay of obnoxious Decree 4 of I984 As the National Assembly sets to hold a public hearing today on the proposed Nigerian Press Council Bill, 2018, the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) has urged the the lawmakers to drop the proposed bill on the grounds that its contents are an almagam of […]