The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution review is considering a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to limit the number of ministers appointed by the president to 37. The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution review is considering a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to limit the number of ministers appointed by the […]
This followed his screening by the Joint Committees on Defence and Army. Recall, Rédíò Afinju had earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu through his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga wrote to the House of Senate to confirm Oluyede as the Chief of Army Staff. The committee Chairman, Babajimi Benson submitted the report […]
The Senate has stated that President Bola Tinubu will likely president the 2025 budget this week.
According to the request read by Speaker Tajudeen Abbass during plenary on Tuesday, the President made it known that the loan is based on an exchange rate of N800 to $1, adding that if approved, the loan will be used to part-finance the budget deficit of N9.7 trillion for the 2024 budget. The president has […]
. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed this in a statement he signed titled, ‘President Tinubu confers GCON on House Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas.’ This comes amid controversies and heated exchanges between the Senate and the House of Representatives over the Speaker’s eligibility for a higher honour. In his […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, led the lawmakers who arrived at the refinery located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos around 11am. Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and top executives of the refineries received the lawmakers who took a tour of the 650,000 barrels per […]
NLC President, Joe Ajaero, made the call in a goodwill message at the national retreat on Labour reforms and the quest for a living wage in Nigeria: A focus on legislative interventions, organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies in Abuja. Ajaero charged the legislators to review and update the labour laws […]
The resolution was adopted after a motion moved Senator Manu Haruna representing Taraba Central in the Senate, on the urgent need to address the challenges of commencing the project. Lawmakers highlighted the failure of previous governments to prioritise the national project with its capacity to generate 3050 megawatts, and reposition the Ajaokuta Steel Complex with […]
While admitting that there are poverty and suffering in the land, Tinubu said the challenges must be tackled and one of the ways of tackling them is to eliminate banditry and terrorism so that farmers cab return to the farm. According to a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Ajuri […]
This was made known by the Chambers spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu in a chat with The Punch, where he noted that the supplementary budget is still being computed by the executive and would be sent to the National Assembly after its July 2 resumption. He said, “The budget would be sent any time we resume after […]