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The House of Representatives has waded into the increase in the pump price of petroleum products. Moved by the Deputy Minority Leader, Aliyu Madaki and sponsored by 111 members of the house, the house called for the immediate reversal of the price increase in petrol and cooking gas. The lawmakers said they feared that the
Nigerians woke to a rather amusing and unfortunate news of a lawmaker pushing a bill to criminalize a legitimate right of a citizen of Nigeria, PEACEFUL PROTEST. Aside that absurd bill, they also want to criminalize anyone who can’t recite the New/old National anthem Tinubu re-introduced. First, do these Lawmakers realize that it was Nigerians
The House of Representatives has introduced the Counter Subversion Bill 2024, which aims to impose stringent penalties on Nigerians who fail to recite the national anthem. According to the proposed legislation, anyone found guilty of refusing to recite the national anthem shall be fined N5 million, face a 10-year prison sentence, or both. Anyone who destroys
Following a motion of urgent national importance sponsored by 88 members, the House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to suspend the implementation of the Samoa Agreement until all controversial clauses are addressed and spelt out. In moving the motion on Tuesday, a member of the House, Aliyu Madaki, drew attention to the clause
The House of Representatives has disowned a trending draft ‘bill’ for discussion, seeking a return to the regional system of government. Titled, “A Bill for an Act to substitute the annexure to Decree 24 of 1999 with a new governance model for the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the draft seeks among others, a new extant laws
Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to withdraw the circular directing financial institutions to commence implementation of the 0.5 per cent Cybersecurity levy , describing it as “ambiguous”. The development was in response to a motion on the urgent need to halt and modify the implementation
The House of Representatives has poked holes in the purported launch of Nigeria Air at the twilight of the administration of former President, Muhammadu Buhari, declaring it a fraud. Chairman of the House Committee on Aviation, Nnolim Nnaji, declared the launch of Nigeria Air a fraud after the major stakeholders in the deal between the
There was a melo-drama at the PDP’s retreat which took place in Bauchi state earlier today. First, that meeting was supposed to also serve as an avenue for all the Minority members of the National Assembly to meet as well as PDP are the majority amongst the minority cacus. In his words, “i bring you
How APC, PDP, Labour Party, others share seats at House of Reps [see breakdown] The All Progressives Congress (APC) has maintained a majority in the House of Representatives after winning 17 out of the 31 seats contested during Saturday’s supplementary elections in 14 States. The APC now has about 178 members-elect in the House of
A fresh controversy is looming at the National Assembly as the two chambers of the parliament yesterday approved different versions of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021. While the Senate provided the re-amended bill for direct, indirect primaries or consensus as the procedure for the nomination of candidates by political parties for various elective positions,