Some members of the House of Representatives cutting across the six geographical zones, Saturday, passed a vote of confidence on the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, and his deputy, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, over composition of the House Standing Committees. The long-awaited list of the committees was announced at Thursday’s plenary by the Speaker Abbas. The forum of Read More
The House of Representatives on Sunday flayed reports that the leadership is under external influence or pressure over appointment of chairmanship and deputy chairmanship of its standing committees. The lawmakers in a statement signed by the Deputy Chairman, Special Ad-hoc Committee on Media, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, representating Ideato Federal Constituency of Imo State, said the reports and rumours Read More
Speaker House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen has hailed the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) for addressing disputes in the polity, declaring that the performance of the Nigeria’s Ombudsman is underreported. Speaker Abbas made this known when the PCC Chief Commissioner, Abimbola Ayo-Yusuf, led the leadership of the Nigerian Ombudsman on a courtesy visit to his office at the National Assembly Complex Read More
JOSHUA EGBODO writes that the special and standing committees being waited in the House of Representatives, have become instruments of rewarding fellow party men, friends and loyalists Committees in parliaments Experts have severally described committees as the engine rooms of legislative houses, arguing that the bulk of legislative functions lies with the panels. Like its Senate counterpart in Nigeria’s National Read More
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, has appointed Hon. Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere (Ikenga Imo) as Deputy Chairman of the Special Committee on Media and Public Affairs of the House. Abbas, who announced the composition of some Special Committees of the House at plenary on Thursday, said they were to help oversee the affairs of the House pending Read More
A Network of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to reverse its recent decision which led to the choice of Hon. Benjamin Kalu as the consensus House of Representatives deputy speaker aspirant for the 10th National Assembly. The Coalition in a unanimous presentation during a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday also Read More
A non-governmental organization, Democrats Alliance for Good Governance (DAGG) on Saturday condemned in strong terms the report making the rounds concerning the “secret adoption” of one of the aspirants for the position of the speaker of the 10th House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas from Kaduna State and Hon. Benjamin Kalu from Abia State as the deputy speaker. In the Read More
Ahead of inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, a coalition of Northern association, on the platform of Arewa Youths Initiative for Good Governance (AYIGGI) has endorsed the candidacy of Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji as the next Speaker, House of Representatives. The coalition also urged the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to forget about zoning and allow Read More
The Chief Imam of Jos, Sheikh Lawal Adam, Saturday, led special supplications seeking God’s intervention towards actualising the House of Representatives speakership aspiration of deputy speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase. The prayer sessions, held at the instance of Joint Forum, in the main bowl of the Jos Central mosque, featured the reading of Qur’an. The Chief Imam also prayed for smooth and peaceful Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) national Youth leader, Dayo Israel has organised an Iftar (Ramadan break at dust) for over 1000 Nigerian youth to mark the 71st birthday of the president- elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He charged the youth to cooperate with Tinubu’s administration, saying they should see the administration as theirs. The youth drawn from across the 36 states of the Read More
The National Vice Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North-west, Mallam Salihu Moh Lukman, has asked elected Senators aspiring for the office of Senate President in the yet to be inaugurated 10th Assembly to step down for a Christian from the South-south. The North-west APC chairman also appealed to the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu Read More
From all informed political permutations, the outcome of the 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria makes very plausible the swing of the position of Speaker, 10th House of Representatives, to the North. And on the list of eligible Reps-Elect for the Office of Speaker, House of Reps, Rt. Hon. Dr. Aminu Sani Jaji ranks atop. Undoubtedly one of the best lawmakers Read More
Incumbent member of the House of Representatives from Imo state, Kingsley Uju, has demanded cancellation of the election in his constituency, saying the process was full of irregularities. The lawmaker representing Ohaji-Egbema, Oguta and Oru West federal constituency, also accused the state government under as being behind attacks that were threatening to his life. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, Read More
The tradition of putting up a legislative agenda became popular from the 7th assembly of the House of Representatives, and has been sustained by successive assemblies. JOSHUA EGBODO reviews the thoughts of Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on how far the current house has gone with its set goals. The platform The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), in the Read More
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is locked in a last ditch battle with Nigeria’s treasury looters. That is what the new cash withdrawal limits and restriction of currency for transactions to the N200 denomination amounts to. The decision is a monetary policy equivalent of a tactical withdrawal from an indefensible battle line and drawing up a new battle line Read More
The House of Representatives during Thursday December 8, 2022 plenary asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to suspend the implementation of N100,000 weekly cash withdrawal limits policy recently set. Emefiele was asked to appear before the house on Thursday next week to explain to the House on the impact and significance of the new policy. Read More
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has reiterated the need for the repositioning of tertiary education in Nigeria. This is as former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and critical stakeholders in the nation’s tertiary education sector have urged Nigerians and the federal government to consider alternative means of funding tertiary education in the country.Gbajabiamila spoke in Abuja during the Read More
The Federal High Court, Abuja Division has granted leave to Men Against Rape Foundation (MARF) to commence legal process to compel the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamilla and members of the House of Representatives to comply with its own resolution to conduct investigative public hearing into the rape and death of 14-year old boarding student of Premiere Read More
Accord Party (AP) candidate for House of Representatives from Kwara state, Olayemi Jejeloye, has urged the electorate to vote his party and its candidates in the 2023 general elections saying they have real solutions to myriads of problems confronting the nation. Jejeloye who is vying for Irepodun/ Isin/ Oke- Ero/ EKiti federal constituency in the green chamber on the platform Read More
Leadership of the House of Representatives has fixed Monday, November 14, 2022 as resumption day of regular plenary of the House. This was against the earlier scheduled date of November 15 by the House before embarking on a three weeks break for budget for its standing committees to engage MDAs on the 2023 budget. The new resumption date was communicated Read More
The majority leader of the federation House of Representatives, Hon Alhassan Ado Dogowa has made a confession as he has kick-started his own campaign for the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu. The lawmaker boasted that his 28 children and 4 wives will vote for the presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu during Read More
The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Services recently concluded a two-day oversight inspection visit on UBEC / SUBEB intervention projects in Kwara state with a vow to expose erring states diverting UBEC marching grants. UMAR BAYO ABDULWAHB reports on the committee’s findings in the state. It was an expression of mixed feelings when members of the House Read More
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has moved to once again, intervene and see to calling off of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). To this end, the Speaker has invitedMinister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Minister of Finance, Dr. Zainab Ahmed, the leadership of ASUU and other key stakeholders for a meeting Read More
The Kano state governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party and a member House of Representatives, Sha’aban Ibrahim Sharada, has approved the appointment of Abbas Yushau Yusuf as spokesperson for his gubernatorial campaign council. In a statement issued to newsmen, Monday, the ADP gubernatorial candidate said Abbas Yushau Yusuf was appointed as the campaign spokesperson due to his wealth of Read More
The House of Representatives Committee on Commerce has described the Lekki Free Trade Zone Quadrant as the country’s “new economic powerhouse” harbouring $25 billion investment. The deputy chairman of the committee, Richard Gbande, said this when he led some members of the committee on inspection of the Lagos Free Zone, Lekki Free Zone, and the Dangote Free Trade Zone Enterprises Read More
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