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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

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 […]

Politics

Insecurity: NASS unhappy, Atiku knocks Tinubu

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 31 January 2024 0

… Senate invites Service Chiefs, HoR to convey Legislative security summit…PDP presidential candidate says Nigeria drowning in ocean of insecurity…as lawmakers adjourn to campaign for Saturday’s bye- elections, re- run polls By Tunde Opalana Both chambers of the National Assembly NASS expressed derp displeasure and grave concern over the worsening security situations

Politics

HoR C’ttee calls for synergy with NASS, to function properly

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 13 December 2023 0

By Tom Okpe The House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Library, Research and Documentation has called for synergy with authority of the National Assembly NASS, for a world class Library, better equipped with state of the art facilities that will enable it, provide better information that will facilitate proper legislative engagement. Chairman of the Committee,

News

10th NASS will empower RMAFC, Speaker assures Commission

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 24 October 2023 0

By Tom Okpe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep Tajudeen Abbas has stated that the 10th National Assembly NASS is ready to empower the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, (RMAFC) to carry out its statutory mandates effectively. Abbas, while receiving the management of the RMAFC on a courtesy call at his office in […]

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NILDS’ DG, resource persons commend NASS on passage of Climate Change Act

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 21 October 2023 0

By Tom Okpe Director-General, National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies, (NILDS) Prof Abubakar Sulaiman has commended the National Assembly, (NASS) for passing into law, the Climate Change Act. Sulaiman made the call at a 2-day workshop for Hiuse Correspondents in Minna, Niger State, Friday. The DG, represented by General Manager, Democracy Radio, Kudu

Politics

Urban Planning Laws: Institute tasks NASS over amendment

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 20 October 2023 0

By Tom Okpe To meet current realities, President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planers, Nathaniel Atebije has urged the National Assembly, (NASS) to amend the Urban and Regional Planning Act and other related laws. Atebije made the call during a courtesy call on Rep Awaji-inombek Abiante, Chairman, House Committee on Urban Development and Regional […]