Ita Enang, the senior special adviser (SSA) to president Muhammadu Buhari on national assembly matters, has appealed to the lawmakers to reconvene so as to attend to urgent pending matters before it, which may affect the running of Nigeria, and…
Elections reordering: Appeal court nullifies judgment stopping National Assembly (Punch)
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Wednesday nullified April 25, 2018, judgment of the Federal High Court which had struck down the National Assembly’s election re-ordering provision of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2018. Although the controversial section of…
Buhari wishes decamped APC members well
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of the…
Senate 2019: Kogi East lines up behind Victor Adoji
The people of Kogi East Senatorial District are in for a brighter future in 2019 and beyond as Dr. Victor Alewo Adoji, renowned technocrat throws the hat in the ring for the 2019 senatorial elections. Dr. Adoji is gearing up…
Unusual police presence at National Assembly (Vanguard)
There is currently an unusual police presence at the National Assembly. Similarly, a crowd of youths is gathering at the main gate of the Assembly. Security operatives involving the police and National Assembly security personnel are at alert inside the building,…
R-APC National Assembly members plot mass defection July 31 (Punch)
Members of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate and House of Representatives may defect en mass to the Peoples Democratic Party shortly before July 31, Sunday Punch has gathered. Investigations on Saturday showed that the Reformed All Progressives Congress split from…
Full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech at the signing into law of the 2018 Appropriation Bill, Presidential Villa, Abuja on June 20
I would like to thank the leadership of the National Assembly, particularly the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as all the Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members, for passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill, after…
You shouldn’t have signed the altered Budget 2018, Nigerians tell Buhari (Punch)
Nigerians have said that President Muhammadu Buhari should not have signed the 2018 budget, which he did amidst claims that the National Assembly “tampered” with the document. Buhari had lamented that the 2018 Appropriation Act, which he signed into law…
National Assembly set to transmit PIGB to Buhari (Guardian)
The National Assembly is set to transmit the final harmonised copy of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.This followed the adoption of the report of the Conference Committee of PIGB at Senate plenary, three months…
Your threat against Buhari a ‘gangster behaviour’, Yoruba Ronu tells NASS (Vanguard)
The threat by the National Assembly to invoke constitutional power against the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is a “gangster behaviour’’, Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, lashed on Tuesday. The forum said that the continuing interference of the National Assembly in the investigation…