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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 […]
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed before the end of June, 2021 by the National Assembly. PIB, which is targeted to open up the nation’s oil and gas industry, has spent twenty years on the floor of both chambers Lawan said the Senate […]
The Minority Caucus of the National Assembly on Tuesday, threatened to use its legislative powers to move against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should he continue to breach the constitution. To make good its threat, the caucus has listed the various constitutional breaches which it said it would rely upon to invoke […]
Tanzania is set to get its first female president following the death of John Pombe Magufuli on Wednesday night. Samia Hassan Suluhu, who became the first female vice-president when Magufuli was elected in 2015, is now set to be sworn in as president. “Where the office of President becomes vacant because of death, then […]
The President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, will on Thursday address a joint session of the National Assembly on efforts being made by his administration to address the security challenges across the country. The President’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, disclosed this in a message she posted on […]
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