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The representatives insisted that the women affairs minister must explain how N1.375bn was expended on  projects linked to the first lady Nigeria’s minister of women affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, came close to exchanging punches with members of the House of Representatives committee on women affairs led by Rep Khalifat Ogbara on Tuesday. Trouble started when the committee chair questioned the minister about unrelated expenditures, including N45 million for a new year party, N20 million for sanitary...

Following a heated debate, the House adopted the bill for second reading, raising hope for the creation of 74 additional seats for women in parliament The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to reserve 74 seats for women in the national and state houses of assembly in Nigeria. However, a heated debate along religious and cultural lines defined contributions as members reluctantly resolved to push the bill through second reading....

The House has initiated moves to review the Steve Oronsaye report on restructuring of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government  The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on restructuring of government agencies has disclosed its intention to begin the review of the Steve Oronsaye report. The committee said it would also review all other white papers on the restructuring of federal government agencies, parastatals, and commissions. Its Chairman, Rep. Ibrahim Isiaka (Ogun, APC) made this known...

The representatives expressed dismay over incompetence of the contractors handling the east-west road, a key niger delta project and demanded a revocation of the contract  The House of Representatives has called on the minister of works, Mr. David Umahi, to immediately revoke the contract for the construction of the east-west road awarded to Rock Result Nigeria Limited and other contractors and re-award same to a company with expertise and capacity. This was sequel to a...

The House resolved to probe alleged reckless spending of N2trillion on various interventions in the agriculture sector in the last 8 years The House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday to investigate alleged embezzlement of  agricultural intervention funds by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government. The probe will also focus on schemes and intervention programmes outside of the ministry of agriculture and food security. This was sequel to a motion brought...

A bill to streamline and enshrine timelines in the budgetary process of the country has progressed to second reading in the House of Representatives  A bill seeking to prescribe timelines for the presentation of budget estimates to the National Assembly has passed for second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill also caters for timelines for preparation, planning, the contents, implementation and evaluation of the annual budget. The piece of draft legislation titled, “a...