News

Tinubu, NASS holds special joint session to commemorate June 12

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 9 June 2025 0

By Msugh Ityokura President Bola Tinubu is to participate in a a special joint session of the National Assembly, NASS as a special guest of honour to commemorate this year’s democracy day celebration on June 12 The special sitting is scheduled to hold at the House of Representatives

News

June 12 NASS Joint Session With Mr. President: An Agenda

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 2 June 2025 0

Nigeria’s 10th National Assembly comprising the Senate and House of Representatives has resolved to hold a joint session on June 12 – to commemorate Democracy Day 2025 at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. Senate President, Godswill Obot Akpabio, announced this at the end of plenary on Wednesday last week. This was after the senators […]

Headlines

Tinubu asks NASS to approve $21.5bn foreign loan, ₦758bn pension bond

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 28 May 2025 0

By Msugh Ityokura President Bola Tinubu Tuesday, asked the National Assembly, NASS to approve an external borrowing plan totalling $21.5 billion, as well as a fresh domestic bond issuance of ₦757.9 billion to offset lingering pension liabilities under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS Tinubu’s requests were conveyed in three separate letters read on the floor […]

Opinion

NASS ROOF: LEAKING OR NOT LEAKING?

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 28 April 2025 0

BY PATRICK WEMAMBU Clearly, the last may not have been heard about the N38bn renovation of the National Assembly’s White House – accommodating both the Senate and the House of Representatives which was said to have been completed between 2022 and 2024. A gigantic project which has been mired in controversy for years, the ghost […]

Headlines

NASS Roof Leakages: Construction Coy Debunks Media Reports

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 27 April 2025 0

BY PATRICK WEMAMBU The Construction Company handling renovation works on roofs and other structural facilities within the National Assembly complex since 2022 has debunked reports making the rounds in certain parts of the media that the roofs of the parliamentary chambers are leaking. Speaking through the Managing Director of one of its subsidiaries, Mr. Olalekan […]

News

NASS transmits ISB 2024 to President Tinubu for assent

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 19 February 2025 0

BY BABATUNDE OPALANA The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Market, Senator Osita Izunaso, has announced that the National Assembly  NASS, has transmitted the Investments and Securities Bill 2024 to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assent. Speaking during the Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget defense on Tuesday in Abuja, Sen. Izunaso stated that

Politics

Budgetary Allocation: NASS C’ttee pledges upward review to agencies

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 16 January 2025 0

By Tom Okpe The Joint Committee on Livestock of the National Assembly, Senate and the House of Representatives, resolved on Thursday, to ensure improvement in the proposed 2025 budgetary allocation for Veterinary Institute of Nigeria, considering its relevance in providing vaccines to contain spread of diseases around the country. The Committee gave the assurance to […]

Analysis

NASS: Willful Ineffectiveness of standing committees

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 16 January 2025 0

By Andrew Oota The decision of the Nigerian Senate to regulate animal husbandry and ranches establishment in Nigeria as panacea for farmers and herders crises was greeted with mixed reactions . Although the bill sponsored by Senator Titus Zam elicited different shades of reactions,it received more favourable endorsements and seen as long overdue. Consequently Senate […]

Politics

NASS ‘ll sanitise oil sector – Senate Leader

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 3 January 2025 0

….says 2025 budget , Tax Reform bills , others top agenda for legislative action By Tunde Opalana The of the Senate, Michael Opeyemi Bamidele has assured that the National Assembly (NASS) , will sanitize the oil sector by going after alleged saboteurs in the industry. Senator Bamidele who represents Ekiti Central senatorial district stated this […]

Politics

Speakers at LP Democracy Day tasks NASS; probe INEC over N400bn, 2023 election

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 14 June 2024 0

By Tom Okpe The 10th National Assembly has been urged to urgently, commence probe of the role, played by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the 2023 general election. It should also, look into why the outcome failed to meet the expectations of Nigerians and the international community as well as how it expended […]

Headlines

Pandemonium at NASS over brutalisation of overzealous DSS operatives

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 May 2024 0

By Haruna Salami Pandemonium engulfed the White House segment of the National Assembly ( NASS) on Friday over brutalization of two senior staff by personnel from Department of State Services (DSS). Trouble came the way of the two senior staff of the National Assembly at about 11:45am at the gate linking the Senate new building […]

Politics

NASS has not lost its respect, independence, image – Senator Wadada

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 27 March 2024 0

Senator Ahmed Aliyu Wadada (Sarkin Yakin Keffi), the Chairman Senate Committee on Public Accounts, was in the House of Representatives for eight years from 2003 to 2011 and now represents Nasarawa West in the current Senate after winning elections in 2023. In this interview with TOM GARBA , he speaks on the politics of the […]

Politics

NASS engages FG on way out of food crisis

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 20 March 2024 0

.. as Agric Minister roll out plans By Haruna Salami The National Assembly through its joint Committee on Agriculture Production Services and Rural Development , on Tuesday , engaged the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security on urgent solution to food inflation bedeviling the country . The Committee Chaired by Senator Saliu Mustapha ( APC […]

Business

Stakeholders want NASS to adopt Auditor-General’s report for good governance

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 13 March 2024 0

Stakeholders in the academia and auditing sectors have called on the National Assembly (NASS) to adopt the Auditor-General of the Federation’s report on financial activities of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). They made the call at the Public Presentation of a book titled: ‘Auditing the Government: Crucial roles auditors play in promoting good governance’, in

Headlines

Stakeholders want NASS to adopt Auditor-General’s report for good governance

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 13 March 2024 0

Stakeholders in the academia and auditing sectors have called on the National Assembly (NASS) to adopt the Auditor-General of the Federation’s report on financial activities of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). They made the call at the Public Presentation of a book titled: ‘Auditing the Government: Crucial roles auditors play in promoting good governance’, in

Politics

IWD 2024: We must lobby NASS to pass gender based bills – Ike

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 12 March 2024 0

…tasks women to challenging injustice, discrimination By Tom Okpe The Vice Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Chapter, Comrade Grace Ike has called for intensive lobby of members of the National Assembly in the bid to ensure passage of the gender-sensitive laws, which seek to protect and promote rights of women […]

News

NASS Service Tenure Extension:Leave the Clerk to the National Assembly Alone

Ihesiulo Grace 19 February 2024 0

The Coalition of Civil Society Groups for Peace, Security, Good Governance,Equity and Justice has debunked the false narratives in some certain quarters that Mr Sani Magaji Tambuwal,Clerk to the National Assembly was behind the Service Tenure Extension Bill which was recently passed by the House of Representatives and now before the Senate for concurrence. In […]

Politics

Crisis looms in NASS over alleged tenure elongation by Clerk, others

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 16 February 2024 0

…aggrieved staff oppose plan extensions of retirement age By Tunde Opalana Some staff of the National Assembly NASS, are said to be lobbying lawmakers in the Senate not to concur to a bill on extension of retirement age for civil servants in Nation Assembly and across the 36 State Houses of Assembly. The controversial bill […]

Headlines

Hunger: NASS seeks empowerment for farmers

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 14 February 2024 0

The National Assembly NASS has called for the immediate empowerment of farmers with modern tools and financing to address the challenge of hunger and food insecurity. Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, made the call in Abuja at a High-Level Strategic Engagement on Climate Change, Food Systems and Resource Mobilisation. The News Agency […]

News

Benue Rerun: NASS Caucus lauds Akume, Agada for Uche’s victory

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 4 February 2024 0

Benue’s National Assembly Caucus has hailed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume and the State Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Austin Agada, over the success of the rerun election in Benue State on Saturday. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), conducted a rerun election to […]