Tag: National Assembly
Jonathan Signs 2014 Budget
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan this morning signed the 2014 Appropriation Act into law. Following this, the president directed Dr.…
Let The Budget Be Signed This Month
By John Tosin Ajiboye On December last year when the 2014 Appropriation bill was sent from Executive to the National…
National Assembly approves state of emergency extension
The National Assembly on Tuesday approved a six-month extension to the state of emergency in three northeast states hit by…
NNPC, CBN pay salaries that enable workers compete with multinationals – Egbule
Salaries paid to workers in NNPC and CBN are to enable them to compete with their multinational counterparts. Chairman, National…
Jonathan withdraws assent from 2014 budget bill
Nigeria’s Government said on Wednesday that the 2014 appropriation bill passed by the National Assembly about two months ago has…
Woeful Funding Of Science And Tech
The Nigerian Supervising Minister of Science and Technology, Omobola Johnson, stunned the National Conference Committee on Science, Technology and Development,…
Emergency Rule: Jonathan Seeks Extension In Borno, Others
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has written to the National Assembly to seek the extension of the state of…
Boko Haram: APC urges N/Assembly To Probe Security Fund
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the National Assembly to urgently initiate a probe into how the budgetary…
Emergency Rule Extension And The Fate Of Three Governors
On May 14, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a six-month state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following…
Declaring our seats vacant could backfire , say Rep defectors
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The 37 members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives who defected from Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP to the All…
Nyanya Blasts: ‘My Wife Died On Way To Buy Wedding Items’
Sola Adeola/Abuja Understandably, Alpha Moro became disturbed on the whereabouts of his wife who left home less than an hour…
Bomb scare at National Assembly
Legislators and civil servants on Tuesday afternoon vacated the National Assembly Complex in Abuja following a bomb scare around the…
Bakare To Senate: Doctor National Confab Report, Bury Yourselves
Eromosele Ebhomele Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, and a delegate at the ongoing National Conference, Pastor Tunde Bakare,…
Mark: A Leader Of Exemplary Character At 66
By Michael Jegede Senate President, Senator David Mark, a man that is highly respected among his colleagues for his rare…
Senate to invite Diezani on NNPC opaque finances
Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) has said it will invite the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to…
Women protest against persecution of Deziani Allison-Madueke
A group of women under the umbrella of Association of Concerned Nigerian Women on yesterday protested against what they described…
Court bars cross-carpeting lawmakers from leadership change
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A Nigerian Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Monday held that lawmakers who defected from the Peoples…
Verdict on defected PDP lawmakers strange, says Gbajabiamila
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila of the All Progressives Congress has described Monday’s ruling by the…
The Odds Against Polytechnic Education
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Universally, polytechnic education is meant to provide technical learning that could assist a society in meeting its…
CBN submits 2014 budget to National Assembly
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday submitted and defended its 2014 budget proposal before the House of Representatives…
Nigeria French Neighbours Are Giving Cover To Boko Haram
Senator Zanna Ahmed Khalifa, represent Borno Central in the National Assembly. In this interview with SOLA ADEOLA, he speaks about…
Time To Halt Mudslinging In The National Assembly
In the last couple of weeks, defections and counter-defections in the National Assembly have hogged the news headlines non-stop. The…
2015 Elections: 5,000 Thugs Train In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga & Eromosele Ebhomele It has been revealed that at least 5,000 youths are currently being trained in Lagos…
2014 Budget: Matters Arising
In December last year, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, on behalf of…
Mu’azu rules out automatic ticket for PDP legislators
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ahmad Mu’azu has said the party will not give automatic…
Afenifere, CLO, Condemn APC’s Directive To Lawmakers
The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, on Friday condemned the directive issued by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its members in…
NGF asks National Assembly to audit Nigeria’s account
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), on Thursday asked the National Assembly to hire an independent firm to audit…
APC accuses PDP of desperation over National Assembly
Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as an act of desperation and an abuse of court process the plan…
Jonathan delegates Okonjo-Iweala to present Budget 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan has delegated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy to present…
Rivers State: APC vows to resist illegality by renegade lawmakers
Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly warned against any reliance on Wednesday’s judgement of a federal high court, nullifying…