The Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Gbadewole Olugbenle and some prominent traditional rulers mainly from the Ogun West Senatorial District stormed the National Assembly on Thursday.
Officers of the Nigerian Police Force mobilized to the National Assembly complex on Monday barred members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) from gaining entrance.
The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, directs members to shut down the National Assembly, Houses of Assembly from Monday indefinitely.
The National Assembly has expressed its readiness to amend the Constitution to ensure gender parity and enact laws to improve the fortunes of women and girls in Nigeria.
Workers from the various state Houses of Assembly under the auspices of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly Complex in Abuja and drove away security operatives attached to the building to demand full implementation of financial autonomy for the state legislature.
The Yoruba Youth Socio-Cultural Association (YYSA), on Thursday, threw its weight behind the move by the National Assembly to ban importation and production of bleaching creams in the country.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, said that the National Assembly enjoys the confidence of Nigerians given the growing number of petitions brought before it, and received in the Ninth Assembly.
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan said the National Assembly has made special provisions for the prevention and management of the second wave of COVID-19 in the country.
The National Assembly on Saturday postponed its resumption to enable lawmakers, who are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to partake in the party’s membership registration and revalidation exercise scheduled to begin on Monday 25th January 2020.
Since the 8th Assembly released its budget to the public in 2018, the 9th Assembly is yet to practice Open Budget or Fiscal Transparency which is a thematic area under Open Government Partnership Nigeria signed on to.
Chief Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate and constitutional lawyer has disagreed with Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, on whether the National Assembly has a right to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to address members.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has challenged those who are critical of the National Assembly to a debate on the relevance of the Legislature to Nigerians rather than criticising the funding of the Assembly.
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Nigerians will be shocked by the details of earnings of lawmakers in the National Assembly which will soon be released, Benjamin Kalu, the...
National Assembly members have been accused of blackmail and coercion, in forcing the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC pay rogue contractors, before approving the agency's budget.
Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila have been sent a request by a Nigerian group, to urgently publish all reports of corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan said on Monday that he and his colleagues in the ninth National Assembly will not allow any distraction from their focus.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the National Assembly will engage security agencies in the country with a view to upscaling operations in hot-spot areas to avert the killings of residents of Kaduna South senatorial district.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday charged the Inspector-General of Police to provide timelines for the implementation of the community policing in the country.
The Senate on Thursday reconvened to consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for approval of the revised 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper, and revised Appropriation Bill 2020.
The National Assembly members will tomorrow resume from their Eid-el-Fitri break to consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s Appropriation (Amendment) Bill 2020..
The Senate has commenced amendment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010, following the consideration of a bill seeking to boost local content and strengthen the nation’s economy.
