Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo says the approval of N5.8 billion emergency food intervention fund for the north-east was within his constitutional authority. The house of representatives had indicted the governing board of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) chaired by Osinbajo over what it described as an “illegal approval”. In a statement released on […]
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A serving member of the house of representatives, Razak Atunwa, has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kwara state. Atunwa defeated Sha’aba Lafiagi, the senator currently representing Kwara north, who participated in the rescheduled exercise held on Monday. According to the results, Atunwa scored 1555 votes ahead of Lafiagi who recorded 578 […]
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has condoled with the people and government of Kwara state over the death today of Rep. Funke Adedoyin. In a condolence message, Dogara described the late Adedoyin as a vibrant lawmaker whose death came as a shock. “News of the death of Hon. Princess Funke Adedoyin […]
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The spokesman of the Kogi state command of Nigeria Police Force, William Aya, has confirmed that two persons were killed in Lokoja on Saturday’s bye-election to fill the vacant Lokoja /Kogi seat in House of Representatives. He said the latest victim, whom he identified as Yadau Umoru, was killed at Ugwan Pawa polling unit, in […]
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Senate President Bukola Saraki has summoned an emergency meeting of leaders of both chambers of the national assembly. Bamikole Omisore, an aide of the senate president, tweeted about the meeting, saying the lawmakers would also meet with Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). “NASS leadership will tomorrow meet at noon to consider some […]
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A controversial member of the house of representatives from Kano state, Abdulmumin Jibrin, President Muhammadu Buhari has highest electoral value in Nigeria and that is the reason at least four governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2019 election. The lawmaker said the governors have […]
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The speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara, says only by enthroning justice and equity that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be able to silence voices of dissent and opposition. He said this at a meeting between the APC caucus in the house of representatives and members of the newly elected national […]
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The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have met with President Muhammadu Buhari over the killings in Plateau State. Both leaders of the National Assembly arrived at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday shortly before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Discussions […]
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The National Assembly on Friday listed and justified 24 new project it added to the recently passed 2018 budget. Aliyu Abdullahi, Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, and Abdulrazak Namdas, his House of Representatives counterpart, addressed a joint press briefing at the National Assembly in Abuja on Friday to give the lawmakers position […]
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Following the justification of alterations made to the 2018 budget by the National Assembly, the presidency has taken another swipe at the lawmakers for not being contended with the N170 billion funds for constituency projects. The presidency said it is surprised the lawmakers were cutting allocations of national projects, despite having “enough”. Recall that while […]
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