Tag: National Assembly
Jonathan misses 2014 budget date again, leaves for UK
For the second time this month, President Goodluck Jonathan has failed to present the 2014 budget to the National Assembly…
Jonathan notifies National Assembly on Budget 2014
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday wrote the Senate expressing his intention to present the 2014 budget to the National…
Autonomy For LGs, A Necessity
By Michael Jegede Before the National Assembly went on annual recess towards the end of July this year, the Senate…
Show Of Shame At National Assembly
The show of shame that took place at the National Assembly Tuesday after Senators and members of the House of…
2015 Election Versus The Call For National Conference
By Godwin Onyeacholem For the genuinely selective compatriots as well as foreign observers who are immune to delusion, the painful…
Gully Erosion: Edo To Borrow $100m From Wold Bank
Worried by the huge financial strength needed to tackle the menace of gully erosion in the state, Edo State government…
APC’s Registration, New Dawn In Nation’s Politics —Lawmaker
A member of the National Assembly, Yakubu Balogun has described the registration of All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent…
Run, Jonathan Run
By Ben Nanaghan The drumbeats of the 2015 presidential elections are very clear and even deafening. However the People’s Democratic…
Arewa Youths Mobilise To Impeach Jonathan
Angered by the current political crises facing Nigeria, northern leaders, youths as well as progressives from other parts of the…
Okonjo-Iweala releases N50b for Assembly projects
. But warns of revenue shortfall Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, said…
Impeach Jonathan Now, Accord Party Urges NASS
The national leadership of Accord Party, AP, has thrown its weight behind the National Assembly over its decision to take…
ACN Wants Jonathan Impeached Over Rivers House Crisis
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has heaped the blame for the ongoing crisis in Rivers State on President Goodluck…
Sacked Bank Workers Protest At National Assembly
Retrenched workers of Mainstreet Bank on Tuesday protested at the gate to the National Assembly Complex, calling on the lawmakers…
‘State Assemblies Must Fight For Autonomy’
The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin, has charged his colleagues in the country to do everything…
Senate Rejects State Creation, Rotational Presidency
Two contentious political issues, state creation and rotational presidency, have been rejected by the Senate. In its report on the…
Jonathan: Dana Plane Crash, A Monumental Tragedy
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday at a solemn, brief ceremony held at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja unveiled a cenotaph in…
Police Frustrate Lagos Laws —Deputy Speaker
Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria, Taiwo Kolawole, has accused the police in Lagos state…
We Won’t Compromise On Oteh
Victor Afam Ogene represents Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives where he is also the deputy chairman of…
ACN Urges National Assembly To Study Emergency Order
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the members of the National Assembly to carefully study the emergency rule…
Court backs National Assembly to regulate party nominations
A Federal High Court in Lagos has upheld the powers of the National Assembly to legislate on how political parties…
Jonathan’s Govt Still In Dreamland —Esele
Nigeria’s plan to be among the first 20 economies in the world by the year 2020 may just be a…
NBA, Others Back 10-Year Jail Term For Pension Thieves
Some prominent lawyers on Thursday backed the proposal by the Federal Government to enact a law with a provision of…
Abolish Political Party System
By Oluwole Sholanke It is a general perception that politicians are corrupt and that they use political parties to loot…
Pardon For Alams: Afenifere, Aturu, Keyamo Slam Jonathan
The Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, activist, Bamidele Aturu, Festus Keyamo, former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa and others…
The APC Marching On
The newly formed All Progressive Congress throttles swiftly with its merger plans The initial scepticism which trailed the announcement of…
No Immunity For Lawmakers; Groups, Lawyers Warn
The Save Nigeria Group (SNG), human rights lawyers and political groups, on Sunday advised the National Assembly not to pass…
NCP Loses Bid To Stop Deregistration
National Conscience Party this morning lost in its bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from deregistering some…
Questions Over 2013 Budget
President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, 26 February, finally signed the long-awaited 2013 budget, after he reportedly reached a truce with members…
Ikeja Police College: Matters Arising
Recent revelations about the degradation and inexcusable neglect of the Nigerian Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, is, undeniably, a subset of…
Jonathan Finally Signs Nigeria’s 2013 Budget
TOKUNBO OLAJIDE Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, finally signed the 2013 Appropriation Bill into law, ending weeks of stand-off between…