Legislative aides at the National Assembly on Tuesday welcomed lawmakers back from their annual recess with a protest over alleged non-payment of salaries, Duty Tour Allowances (DTA) and other entitlements totalling N5.8 billion. The protesters, numbering about 50, besieged the lobby adjoining two chambers, bearing placards with different inscriptions amid solidarity songs. Leader of the […]
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 Forum of Legislative Aides to the Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment that discharged and acquitted him of allegations of false assets declaration. The forum said that the landmark judgment was a vindication of Saraki’s persistent claim that the assets declaration charges were trumped up charges and politically […]
After a protracted leadership crisis that rocked the National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum (NASSLAF), Mr. Samuel Melaye was recently inaugurated as the new chairman of the Forum. In this interview with select journalists, he bares his mind on the planned reform of the Forum, among other developments. TUNDE OPALANA was there for The Daily Times […]