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The Labour Party senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, Prof Oyibo Chukwu has been reportedly murdered. This is coming three days before the Presidential and National Assembly elections. It was learnt that Chukwu was set ablaze alongside other party members late Wednesday evening at Amaechi Awkunanaw, Enugu South Local Government Area of […]
The national assembly says only 11 states have considered and voted on the constitutional amendment bills. Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy senate president of the senate, said this on Tuesday during a press conference in Abuja. The deputy senate president said the states include Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Delta, Edo, Kaduna, Katsina, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun […]
Nigerian Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has said that the 2023 appropriation bill of N20.5 trillion which was presented to the joint session of the lawmakers by President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday would be passed into law in December. Lawan disclosed this at a reception organised for him on Tuesday after he […]
The Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Zaria, says it is proposing legislation to ban the consumption of animal skin, locally known as Kpomo. Prof Muhammad Yakubu, Director General of NILEST, said the legislation was necessary to revive the comatose leather industry in the country. He noted that the habit of […]
The majority control of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate is currently under threat as no fewer than 20 APC senators have concluded plans to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party and others. It was learnt that the APC, which had earlier lost 13 senators to […]
There is uncertainty over the delegates’ lists of political parties, including the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party, following the delay by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in signing the amendment version of the Electoral Act. Chieftains of the major political parties, who spoke on Thursday, said the President’s […]
The National Assembly has begun moves to challenge, in court, the actions of some members of the federal executive who are bent on removing Section 84(12) from the Electoral Act 2022. The PUNCH on Thursday gathered that the nation’s apex legislature had started the process of appealing the judgment of a Federal High Court, […]
The two chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly have indicated their readiness to rework the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s dispositions. President Buhari vetoed the Bill, and the National Assembly has said it will exercise its powers to override him. Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties, Protocols […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking the approval of the National Assembly to borrow another $4 billion ($4,054,476,863) and €710 million loan from bilateral and multilateral organisations to fund the deficit in the 2021 budget. The president, in a letter to the Senate, said the loan request is an addendum to the 2018-2020 borrowing plan. […]
The Governor of Delta State,Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has warned that the rejection of electronic transmission of election results by the National Assembly, could deter the country’s effort at attracting Foreign Direct Investments, FDIs. Okowa, who made the statement when he received the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Monday Udoh-Tom, and his management […]
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