Following the successful inauguration of the 10th National Assembly signalling the beginning of a new legislative session, the lawmakers in the House of Representatives sat for their first plenary on Wednesday, 14th June 2023. In this piece, we refresh your memory on key activities in the Green Chamber before the lawmakers adjourned for July 4, 2022. READ ALSO: 10TH NASS: Composition of the Nigerian House of Representatives | Age, Gender Reps to...
Members of the 10th National Assembly last week elected their Presiding Officers in the Red Chamber. This was thereafter followed with one plenary session on 14th June, 2023 before the lawmakers proceeded on break. Here are five things you might have missed from the Red Chamber last week: 1. The lawmaker representing Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Godswill Obot Akpabio, emerged as the President of the Ninth Senate, polling a total...
Umaru Yakubu Kirawa pens an opinion piece from Maiduguri, setting the agenda for Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno representing Borno North Senatorial District. READ ALSO: 10TH NASS: Composition of the Nigerian Senate | Parties, Ex-Governors and Deputies Northern Borno State has been one of the worst-hit regions in Nigeria due to the insurgency that has ravaged the area for over a decade. The region has experienced untold hardship, with thousands of people...
The election of Hon. Tajudeen Abbas and Hon. Benjamin Kalu as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives may have come and gone. What were the undercurrents in their journey to securing such an unprecedented landslide like? Find out in this piece by our National Assembly Lead, Elizabeth Atime. READ ALSO: 10TH NASS: Composition of the Nigerian House of Representatives | Age, Gender The journey preceding the election of...
RMAFC undertook the last review of remuneration for public office holders in 2007, which culminated in the ‘Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc) (Amendment) Act, 2008’Â READ ALSO: Parliament Special: How justified is severance package for lawmakers? The last few days have seen many hues and cry about a proposed increase of 114 per cent in the salaries of political office holders, including the President, vice...
Hon. Fredrick Opare-Ansah argues that the ECOWAS Commission is in a better position to prepare the necessary framework that will lead to the actualisation of direct elections into ECOWAS Parliament A former member of the Ghanaian Parliament and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Hon. Fredrick Opare-Ansah, has hailed the ECOWAS Commission for the crucial role it has played in sustainability, stability and development in the past forty-eight...
In this second part of our series on the composition of both chambers of the Tenth National Assembly, we examine the composition of the House of Representatives. featuring distribution of members along parties, gender, youth, and PWDs READ ALSO: 10TH NASS: Composition of the Nigerian Senate | Parties, Ex-Governors and Deputies On Tuesday, 13th June 2023, the long-awaited inauguration of the Tenth National Assembly took place with Honourable Tajudeen Abbas (APC, Zaria...
With the inauguration of most State Houses of Assembly largely done, we commence a series on the Presiding Officers of Nigeria’s thirty-six State Assemblies across the six geo-political zones beginning from the Southwest It’s the season of inauguration across the country as State Assemblies (STASS) elect their Presiding Officers comprising the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, to pilot the affairs of the respective state legislatures for the next four years. Nigeria has nine...
A septuagenarian, Gumel had previously served as Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters between 2009 and 2011 and as Special Adviser to the National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on National Assembly Matters from 2012 to 2014. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed a member of the Eighth Senate, Senator Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel, and Honourable Ibrahim Olarewaju Kunle; a member of the Ninth House of Representatives, as Presidential...
The collaboration is in relation to the Organisational Development Marketplace Training Programme of the USAID-funded Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement Activity (SCALE), geared towards strengthening the financial, management and advocacy capacity of local civil society organisations. In a bid to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria, Palladium Group, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the launch of a postgraduate course...
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