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The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to appoint 9 new Justices to the Supreme Court in order to expedite the hearing and determination of matters for effective and efficient justice delivery in the country The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance by Rep. Patrick Umoh (PDP-AkwaIbom) during […]
The House of Representatives has adjourned plenary in honour of its member, Abdulkadir Jelani Danbuga, who died on Wednesday. Danbuga, who was representing Isa/Sabon Birni federal constituency of Sokoto State, died at the age of 63, following a brief illness. He has been buried in Sokoto according to Islamic rites. Presiding over plenary on Wednesday, […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas has declared vacant the seats of Tunji Olubunmi-Ojo and Tanko Sununu, who were appointed ministers by President Bola Tinubu. Mr Abbas declared the seats vacant after reading communications from the erstwhile lawmakers. The duo in separate letters announced their resignations from the House. Meanwhile, the House […]
The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected the claim that lawmakers got N100 million each as palliatives from the Federal Government. Reps spokesman Akin Rotimi, in a statement, described a claim by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Assistant General Secretary, Christopher Onyeka, as baseless. Onyeka alleged that each lawmaker raked in the palliative sum from […]
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on International Boundary Dispute has halted plans to cede Sina in Michika Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa to the Republic of Cameroon.Rep. Beni Lar, the Chairman of the Committee, gave the ruling in Abuja on Tuesday at an investigative hearing on the the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary disputes. Lar […]
The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Disposal of Public Property, on Thursday, summoned the Director-General of NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh; the Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Mallam Mohammed Koko; and the Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, to defend the auctioning of some public properties by the agencies. The Chairman of the committee, […]
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the utilization of Ecological Funds and other intervention funds of the Great Green Wall Project on Wednesday queried claims by the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) that it spent N81bn to plant 21 million trees in the frontline states in the north. The states are Kebbi, […]
No fewer than 60,000 Nigerians across Nigeria have so far lost their lives during the unabated farmers-herders clashes since 2001. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas disclosed this during the flag-off of stakeholders’ interactive session held at the instance of Ad-hoc Committee on the ‘Recurring annual clashes between Farmers and Herders […]
The House of Representatives has begun investigation into the alleged non-remittance of contributions into the National Housing Fund (NHF). This is just as the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas, said the 10th House would review the National Housing Fund (NHF) Act to make it meet the current realities in the sector in order to provide affordable housing for Nigerians. […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas has said the 10th national assembly has resolved to address issues surrounding multiple taxation in the country. He said this will be done through a bill that would address the anomaly. Abbas said this when Mr Lee Hun Seung the South Korean Ambassador to Nigeria […]
Fourteen people told the House of Representatives committee investigating job racketeering at the Federal Character Commission (FCC) that they had been receiving salaries from the Federal Government without job placements. They said the salaries were paid on the platform of the Federal Government’s Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS). They also told the committee […]
The House of Representatives has issued an arrest warrant against Yusuf Kolo, a former staff of the Federal Character Commission, FCC, over failure to appear before the ad hoc committee investigating job racketeering in ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs. Yusuf Gagdi, chairman of the committee, issued the arrest warrant yesterday after Kolo failed twice to […]
The House of Representatives has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shelve its planned nationwide protests. Rep. Akin Rotimi, the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs said this in a statement in Abuja. “We appeal to the NLC and allied labour unions to call off the planned peaceful protest and embrace […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has inaugurated an Ad hoc Committee to investigate the alleged $9.05 billion revenue loss from gas flaring in the last decade in Nigeria. Abbas, at the inauguration of the House ad hoc committee on Gas Flaring on Monday, charged the committee to get to the […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has said that claim of lawmakers being stupendously rich is erroneous. Abbas, who spoke through the minority leader of the House, Hon. Kingsley Chinda during an interactive session with parliamentary reporters organized by the adhoc committee of the House on Media and Public Affairs on Wednesday, […]
Vice-President Kashim Shettima is currently meeting with principal officers of the House of Representatives, led by the Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abass, at the State House, Abuja. The meeting, which has ranking members of the green chamber, including the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, in attendance, is holding behind closed-doors. This is the first meeting the […]
The House of Representatives has directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to immediately halt the implementation of hike in tuition fees by federal universities. It also mandated its Committee on Tertiary Education and Services (when constituted) to probe the increase of fees by federal universities so as to finding lasting solutions to the challenges in the tertiary education […]
A motion seeking to declare emigration of young Nigerians broad, popularly known as Japa syndrome, a national emergency was roundly rejected by the members of the House of Representatives at plenary yesterday. The motion sharply caused some rowdiness in the chambers as members said it was against the spirit and letters of the 1999 constitution […]
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee has launched an investigation into the N413 billion funds borrowed from the CBN for subsidy payments. The Committee said the investigation is to determine whether the said amount was refunded after the passage and assent of the 2015 budget as earlier approved by the President at that time. Ad-hoc […]
Senators and members of the House of Representatives will be sharing a total of N30.2 billion as severance allowance when the 9th National Assembly winds down next month, according to an investigation conducted by The Nation. Also to benefit from the said sum are aides of the federal lawmakers. Severance package or gratuity is money […]
