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The House of Representatives on Tuesday responded to criticisms by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on constituency projects carried out by lawmakers. PUNCH reports that the House in its response said it would no longer respond to corruption allegations made against the National Assembly...

Constitution amendments is underway after they have been passed by at least 24 state houses of assembly and two-thirds of the national assembly. The committee, which was led by Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, worked on amending some sections of the 1999 constitution. In January 2016...

A member of the House of Representatives from Sokoto State, Mr. Abdullahi Wamakko, is dead. Wamakko died in Abuja on Friday. He was 50 years old. He reportedly passed on after a brief illness as he was last seen at the National Assembly on Monday. The Chairman, House Committee on Media and...

The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo may risk being impeached if the executive fails to carry out the decisions of the Senators as the Senate has asked him to as a matter of urgency withdraw his statemecnt that the National Assembly lacks the powers to confirm nominations from the President. The...

Controversial Nigerian Senator, and self-styled anti-corruption activist, Dino Melaye is in the news again. This time, it is about a move by his constituents to eject him from the parliament over what they term as continuous embarrassment and poor representation. Hundreds of protesters from the...

The suspended lawmaker, Abdulmumin Jibrin has backed the recent comment by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that the National Assembly has no power to insert new projects in a budget proposal. Jibrin, a former chairman of the House of Representatives appropriation committee, said "The acting...

Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has claimed that the National Assembly altered some provisions in the 2017 budget. The former Governor of Lagos state, who is not happy with the development, suggested that the judiciary may have to explain how far lawmakers can go in...

The Presidency has said that it is still working on the 2017 budget, 15 days after the National Assembly transmitted the document to the Presidency. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang on Saturday said the Presidency is working...

A pressure group, Nigerian Wailers, has passed a vote of no confidence on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for the last two years. The group said this was with regard to the government’s failure to fulfill its campaign promises after two years in office. A statement signed by...

Nigerian government said it was analysing and reviewing the 2017 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly penultimate Thursday. Budget and National Planning Minister, Udoma Udoma said this while addressing State House correspondents on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council...

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested for the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $6.9b for infrastructural development. Buhari in a letter read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki said $5.8bn would be borrowed from the Chinese Exim bank for the repair of the railway transport...

Nigerian senate is considering two options to overcome constitutional hindrances over the rejection of Mr. Ibrahim Magu, as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Following the second Senate rejection of Mr. Magu, administration officials and sympathisers had cited...

Many activities are lined up for the Nigerian Senate in April, 2017 as the Senators had a tough month in March between the Presidency and the law making body. The senators, in the month, experienced may controversies as well as scandal including Senate President, Bukola Saraki's alleged Range...

Nigerian Senate has cleared Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye of wrongdoings over allegations leveled against the two principal officers of the National Assembly. Is the news a bad one for the Presidency? Nigerian Bulletin compiled 5 reasons why the President's team may not feel good with the news...

In another twist to the ongoing certificate controversy of Kogi Senator, Dino Melaye, Sahara Reporters has claimed that the controversial lawmaker was impeached as the president of the National Association of Geography Students at the institution. Sahara Reporters said Melaye's classmates...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday resumed duties after his vacation in the United Kingdom. A two-paragraph statement issued on Monday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the President has notified the National Assembly of his return to the country and complied...

The Auditor-General has reportedly uncovered a financial fraud to the tune of 2 billion naira in the National Assembly expenditure for 2016. AGF's Document seen by Daily Trust revealed that the illegalities were perpetrated in 13 transactions. The National Assembly has been under increasing...

Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, for the second time has called on the National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. Yesterday, the President through his media aide, Femi Adesina revealed that a series of medical check-ups he carried out in the cause of his vacation had...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Domestic and Foreign Debt, Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central), yesterday fulfiled one of his campaign promises by hosting lepers, the deaf and other physically challenged persons in his office at the National Assembly. The physically challenged came all the...

Senator Isa Galaudu, the Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has resigned. Daily Trust reliably gathered that Galaudu’s resignation came days after Saraki issued a memo notifying his over 112 aides of plan to relieve them of their appointments. Multiple sources at the...