The State of Osun House of Assembly has drummed its support for the much desired financial autonomy for State Houses of Assembly in the country. The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Najeem Salaam, expressed this on the floor of the House while paying host to the Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, who doubles as the vice-Chairman, [...]
As anxiety continues to mount over the propriety of the proposed six-year singled tenure for President and governors in Nigeria, Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, Monday, voiced its opposition to the plan, saying that it was unacceptable to the people of the region. “We in the north remain stoutly opposed to the proposal and will never [...]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the votes of the people in the 2015 general elections must count and be respected. He said this in Abuja on Thursday at the special plenary session to mark the second anniversary of the 7th House of Representatives. According to him, “We must place [...]
The House of Assembly, State of Osun, last Tuesday passed into law, the “Highway Removal of Obstructions Bill, 2013” for the economic benefits and physical beautification of the environment of the state. After the House had examined the clean copy of the bill at the plenary, Deputy Leader of the House, Honourable Afolabi Atolagbe, moved the [...]
•Senate President, Speaker, their deputies to get life pension The report of the Senate Committee on Constitution Review, which was submitted to the Senate on Tuesday, has affirmed the power of the Federal Government to seize funds belonging to local governments where democratically elected executives are not in place. The Federal Government, under President Olusegun [...]
The Senate on Wednesday dropped the controversial African First Ladies’ Peace Mission House project when it passed the N259.65bn budget of the Federal Capital Territory for the 2013 fiscal year without approving the N4bn appropriated for it. In February when the budget proposal was brought to the National Assembly, it contained N4bn vote for the [...]
As Senate begins debate of the report of its Constitution Review Committee (CRC) today, fresh indications emerged yesterday evening that the president, his deputy, governors and their deputies may not benefit from the six-year single tenure being proposed by the Senate. Chairman of the Senate Constitution Review Committee (CRC), Ike Ekweremadu, laid the report in [...]
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, passed for the second reading a bill which sought to grant absolute powers to the National Assembly to solely initiate and execute impeachment proceedings against a sitting president. The bill in question, sponsored by Honourables Yakubu Dogara and Emmanuel Jime, was intended to amend Section 143 of the 1999 [...]
Clandestine moves to impeach Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, heightened on Wednesday as eight members of the House of Assembly were said to have shifted loyalty to the camp of the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike. Though the names of the lawmakers were not mentioned, the number of anti-Amaechi state legislators [...]
Some N2.94 trillion pension funds are at the disposal of few individuals who are not properly supervised, who have no training in the management, and who dip their hands into it as and when they feel like, according to the Senate. The national budget is N4.9 trillion and there are pension funds up to N2.9 [...]
