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PASAN Divided Over Meeting With National Assembly Management

PALIARMENTARY Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) appears to be divided over the emergency meeting called by the National Assembly management to avert the union’s industrial action fixed for Monday, January 10, 2022. The emergency meeting is scheduled to hold on…

Bureau Of Public Enterprise In Alleged N23B Unremitted Ports Concession Funds Scandal

THE Senate has uncovered how the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) failed to remit about N23 billion ($679.4 million – N480 per dollar) realised from the concession of various ports granted to 23 companies under the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA)…

Tanzania’s Speaker Of Parliament Resigns After Fallout With President

THE Speaker of Tanzania’s National Assembly Job Ndugai resigned from his position on Thursday days after a public fallout with President Samia Suluhu over the East African country’s debt burden. Ndugai issued a statement saying his decision was a personal…

I Will Sign Electoral Bill If NASS Includes Consensus Candidates, Indirect Primaries — Buhari

NIGERIAN President Muhammadu Buhari has stated his readiness to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill after the National Assembly makes the necessary adjustments. He, however, said such changes must include the addition of consensus candidates, indirect primary options to the…

Edo State And Its Legislature 

By Dr Samson Osagie OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES, Jr in SOUTHERN PACIFIC v. JENSEN, 244 US 205,,222(1917) said “The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious are what I mean by the Law”. I had…

New Year Message From Prof Julius O. Ihonvbere, Honourable Member Representing Owan Federal Constituency, National Assembly, Abuja

My dear people We thank God for another new year. 2021 was a tough year for most Nigerians. It was probably worse for the poor, unenemployed and marginalized because of low quality leadership,  bad governance, bitter and intolerant politics, suffocation…

Electoral Bill: National Assembly To Delete Direct Primary — Gbajabiamila

HOUSE of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila yesterday spoke of how the National National Assembly plans to resolve the logjam over the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. He hinted that lawmakers may drop the controversial clause from the Bill before passing it…

NASC To Embark On National Assembly Staff Members’ Audit In 2022

THE National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has scheduled a comprehensive audit of staff members of the National Assembly for the first quarter of 2022 to clean up the system. Sources in the Commission said the audit was informed by the…

Iyasere Speaks on Electoral Bill, And Others

Reported by Elempe Dele A former PDP Publicity Secretary in Edo State who then doubled as member of the Presidential Committee on Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Niger-Delta and Edo State Committee on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Iyasere Speaks…

You Have Failed; CSOs Demand Gbaja’s Resignation As Speaker Over Handling Of Electoral Bill

AS Nigerians continue to react to the executive veto of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021, Civil Society Partners on Electoral Reform have asked the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to step down, accusing him of betraying…