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PDP urges Gov Okpebholo, Deputy, Idahosa to officially resign from NASS

PDP urges Gov Okpebholo, Deputy, Idahosa to officially resign from NASS

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has claimed Governor Monday Okpebholo and his Deputy, Dennis Idahosa were making…

Tinubu didn’t seek NASS approval for N150m presidential jet — Abaribe

Tinubu didn’t seek NASS approval for N150m presidential jet — Abaribe

Abia South senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Monday said President Bola Tinubu never sought the approval of the National Assembly before…

Why I met with Plateau NASS members – Gov Mutfwang

Why I met with Plateau NASS members – Gov Mutfwang

As part of his administration’s commitment to fostering peace, unity, and inclusive governance, Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State hosted…

Alleged rights violation: Bobrisky sues EFCC, NASS, demands N1.2bn in damages

Alleged rights violation: Bobrisky sues EFCC, NASS, demands N1.2bn in damages

Nigeria’s crossdresser, Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, has filed a N1.2 billion lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…

NASS does not need to study Tinubu’s tax bills before rejecting them – Ndume

NASS does not need to study Tinubu’s tax bills before rejecting them – Ndume

The Borno South senator, Ali Ndume says the National Assembly does not need to study the tax reform bills sent…

National Assembly Service Commission appoints new Clerk to NASS

National Assembly Service Commission appoints new Clerk to NASS

The National Assembly Service Commission has appointed Mr Kamoru Ogunlana as new Clerk to the National Assembly. The appointment followed…

LG elections: NASS should avert imminent dictatorship in Nigeria – Jarigbe

LG elections: NASS should avert imminent dictatorship in Nigeria – Jarigbe

The Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe has observed that the legal framework empowering State Independent…

BREAKING: NEC: Governors Advise Tinubu to withdraw tax reform bill from NASS

BREAKING: NEC: Governors Advise Tinubu to withdraw tax reform bill from NASS

The National Economic Council, comprising members of the Nigerian Governors Forum has advised the presidency to withdraw the Tax Reforms…

NASS members demand bribe from universities during oversight visits – Deputy VC

NASS members demand bribe from universities during oversight visits – Deputy VC

The Deputy Vice Chancellor, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) Lapai, Niger State, Prof Hassan Ibrahim has said members of the…

Akpabio denies DSS invasion of NASS over alleged impeachment moves

Akpabio denies DSS invasion of NASS over alleged impeachment moves

Senate President Godswill Obot Akpabio has denied reports that operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, stormed National Assembly…

Kano NNPP crisis: Gov Yusuf moves to reconcile with NASS members, others

Kano NNPP crisis: Gov Yusuf moves to reconcile with NASS members, others

In what appears to be a move to mend his fractured relationship with leaders of the New Nigeria Peoples Party,…

Constitution amendment: Lawyer, Idam writes NASS, demands independent candidates

Constitution amendment: Lawyer, Idam writes NASS, demands independent candidates

Activist lawyer, Madubuachi Idam has called for the fast-tracking of the bill seeking to amend the Nigerian constitution to allow…

NASS trains 3, 500 legislative aides

NASS trains 3, 500 legislative aides

The Management of the National Assembly set in motion machinery for career training of legislative aides to lawmakers at both…

Bobrisky: Drama as VDM arrives NASS complex with chief priest [Video]

Bobrisky: Drama as VDM arrives NASS complex with chief priest [Video]

Social media influencer, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has posted of his arrival at the National Assembly complex. DAILY…

Bribery saga: Bobrisky absent as VDM, Adeyanju, others storm NASS

Bribery saga: Bobrisky absent as VDM, Adeyanju, others storm NASS

The investigation into the alleged N15 million bribery involving controversial cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky, has commenced in the…

Clark warns against allowing anti-democratic groups hijack NASS

Clark warns against allowing anti-democratic groups hijack NASS

South-South leader Edwin Clark has called on the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio not to allow powerful politicians to…

Benue APC crisis: Alia’s refusal to honour Tinubu’s peace efforts not surprising – NASS Caucus

Benue APC crisis: Alia’s refusal to honour Tinubu’s peace efforts not surprising – NASS Caucus

The Benue National Assembly Caucus has criticised Governor Hycient Alia for rejecting peace initiatives put forward by President Bola Tinubu…

NASS: Account for running costs or face legal action – SERAP tells Akpabio, Abbas

NASS: Account for running costs or face legal action – SERAP tells Akpabio, Abbas

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of…

Presidential Jets Seizure: Regulate international debts of Nigerian states – Idam to NASS

Presidential Jets Seizure: Regulate international debts of Nigerian states – Idam to NASS

Activist, Madubuachi Idam on Friday urged the National Assembly to draw up legislation that would regulate the international debt of…

Stop living lavishly at the expense of ordinary Nigerians – Prophet El-Buba tells Tinubu, NASS

Stop living lavishly at the expense of ordinary Nigerians – Prophet El-Buba tells Tinubu, NASS

A group, the Initiative for Better and Brighter Nigeria, IBBN, has said President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly members and…

NASS Rivers caucus begs youths to shun nationwide protest, cites possible violence

NASS Rivers caucus begs youths to shun nationwide protest, cites possible violence

The Rivers State House of Representatives caucus has called on Nigerian youths particularly those in the state to shun the…

Niger NANS distances self from planned August 1st to 10th nationwide protest

Niger NANS distances self from planned August 1st to 10th nationwide protest

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, in Niger State has distanced itself from the planned nationwide protest slated for…

Police Act: Nigeria now endangered by NASS martial tendencies – Odinkalu

Police Act: Nigeria now endangered by NASS martial tendencies – Odinkalu

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, says Nigeria is now endangered by the martial tendencies of…

State creation: Return Nigeria to regional govt – Agbakoba to NASS

State creation: Return Nigeria to regional govt – Agbakoba to NASS

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Olisa Agbakoba, on Sunday charged the National Assembly to return Nigeria to regionalism and…

Bill to create extra 74 seats for women in NASS passes second reading

Bill to create extra 74 seats for women in NASS passes second reading

A bill seeking to create 74 seats for women in the National Assembly, on Tuesday, passed a second reading in…

Insecurity: Over 277 guns close to NASS – Jimoh Ibrahim

Insecurity: Over 277 guns close to NASS – Jimoh Ibrahim

Ondo South Senator, Jimoh Ibrahim, says there are over 277 guns and other assorted weapons in less than 1,000 metres…

Don’t scrap state electoral commissions – Yiaga Africa tells NASS

Don’t scrap state electoral commissions – Yiaga Africa tells NASS

Yiaga Africa, a civil society organisation, has urged the National Assembly to look into the constitutional gaps that undermine State…

Customs explains how officer, Essien died during presentation at NASS

Customs explains how officer, Essien died during presentation at NASS

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has explained that its officer, Deputy Comptroller Etop Andrew Essien, who was in charge of…

Minimum Wage Bill: NASS not proposing seizure of states, LGs funds – Senate spokesman

Minimum Wage Bill: NASS not proposing seizure of states, LGs funds – Senate spokesman

The Chairman of Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu has said the 10th Senate was not…

Nigeria’s democracy not only for politicians – Ezekwesili to NASS

Nigeria’s democracy not only for politicians – Ezekwesili to NASS

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili on Saturday warned that Nigeria’s democracy is not for politicians alone. Ezekwesili accused the…

Land seizure: Tiv communities protest, seek intervention from NASS, AGF

Land seizure: Tiv communities protest, seek intervention from NASS, AGF

Tiv communities in Nasarawa State have raised the alarm over the alleged forceful acquisition of 10,000 hectares of their ancestral…

NASS urged to intervene in non-swearing in of Plateau lawmakers

NASS urged to intervene in non-swearing in of Plateau lawmakers

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, has called on the National Assembly to urgently intervene in…

Benue: NASS, stakeholders support bill to establish Federal College of Agriculture, Agila

Benue: NASS, stakeholders support bill to establish Federal College of Agriculture, Agila

The bill seeking to establish a Federal College of Agriculture in Agila, Benue State has received acceptance amongst members of…

NASS members’ jumbo salaries exaggerated, mere propaganda – Reps

NASS members’ jumbo salaries exaggerated, mere propaganda – Reps

The House of Representatives says the narrative about the remuneration of members of the National Assembly by Organised Labour is…

BREAKING: Activities at NASS totally grounded over strike action

BREAKING: Activities at NASS totally grounded over strike action

Following the commencement of indefinite strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, activities…

BREAKING: NLC, TUC insist on indefinite strike despite meeting with NASS, SGF

BREAKING: NLC, TUC insist on indefinite strike despite meeting with NASS, SGF

The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have resolved to proceed with their indefinite strike. This…

PDP, LP lawmakers not visible in NASS – Shehu Sani

PDP, LP lawmakers not visible in NASS – Shehu Sani

Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has slammed lawmakers from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, for…

Old National Anthem: Bring back regional, parliamentary systems – Bishop tells NASS

Old National Anthem: Bring back regional, parliamentary systems – Bishop tells NASS

The Lead Bishop of Worldwide Anglican Church, WAC, in Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Seun Adeoye has urged the National Assembly to…

“Misplaced priority” – Tinubu, NASS under fire over return to old national anthem

“Misplaced priority” – Tinubu, NASS under fire over return to old national anthem

President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly have come under heavy criticism over the law returning the old National Anthem…

Tinubu to present 2024 supplementary budget to NASS

Tinubu to present 2024 supplementary budget to NASS

President Bola Tinubu has indicated he will soon present the 2024 Supplementary Budget to the National Assembly (NASS). The President…

Ganduje, APC leaders storm NASS amid confusion of Tinubu joint session address

Ganduje, APC leaders storm NASS amid confusion of Tinubu joint session address

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday, arrived at the National Assembly complex in…

National Anthem law not enacted through legislative debate – AGF, others warn NASS

National Anthem law not enacted through legislative debate – AGF, others warn NASS

The Nigerian National Assembly was informed on Monday that the law regarding the National Anthem should not be enacted through…

APC leadership crisis: Ex-NASS member, Esiaga asks NWC to set up caretaker committee in Abia

APC leadership crisis: Ex-NASS member, Esiaga asks NWC to set up caretaker committee in Abia

An All Progressives Congress, APC, stalwart and former member of the House of Representatives, Nze Chikwem Esiaga, has decried the…

40 Nigerian lawmakers may lose seats over concurrent membership of NASS, ECOWAS Parliament

40 Nigerian lawmakers may lose seats over concurrent membership of NASS, ECOWAS Parliament

Over 40 Nigerian lawmakers are likely to vacate their seats for concurrent membership of the National Assembly and ECOWAS Parliament…

NASS to probe safety issues in aviation sector

NASS to probe safety issues in aviation sector

The Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives on Aviation has announced plans to probe the Safety…

State Police: NASS will enact laws, reforms for collective welfare of Nigerians – Kalu

State Police: NASS will enact laws, reforms for collective welfare of Nigerians – Kalu

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has said that the principal aim of the…

Benue APC crisis: No faction, Akume remains leader – NASS caucus

Benue APC crisis: No faction, Akume remains leader – NASS caucus

The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Assembly caucus in Benue State has debunked claims that there are two factions of…

Pass laws establishing separate cells, toilets for transgenders – Lawyer writes NASS

Pass laws establishing separate cells, toilets for transgenders – Lawyer writes NASS

Activist lawyer, Maduabuchi Idam has called on the National Assembly to pass a legislation for the establishment of a separate…

NASS oversights promote transparency, accountability in MDAs – Minister

NASS oversights promote transparency, accountability in MDAs – Minister

The Minister of Police Affairs, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam, has clarified that the oversight functions of the National Assembly help to…

N3trn budget padding: We demand explanation – Peter Obi to Presidency, NASS

N3trn budget padding: We demand explanation – Peter Obi to Presidency, NASS

The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has called on the Presidency and the National Assembly to explain the…

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