President schedules meeting with all Senators-elect and the Members-elect of the House of Representatives in the Tenth National Assembly for Thursday, swears in Senator George Akume as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Ahead of Tuesday’s inauguration of the Tenth National Assembly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has invited Senators-elect and Members-elect for a meeting on Thursday, at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. This was contained in a letter from...
The Senate has expressed disappointment over the controversies that have trailed the Federal Government’s action of flying an aircraft belonging to Ethiopia Airline into Abuja for the inauguration of a national carrier, Nigeria Air. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP, Ekiti South), during a Committee meeting with officials of the Ministry of Aviation and other stakeholders in the industry. Olujimi frowned...
As the race for leadership of the 10th Assembly heats up, Kano South Senatorial District Senator-elect has cautioned the APC of its zoning plan, stressing that sacrosanct provisions guiding the election processes of selecting Presiding Officers must not be tampered with. READ ALSO: 9th NASS: OrderPaper inducts five lawmakers into MVP Hall of Fame Suleiman Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila As Lawmakers continue to jostle for positions as Presiding Officers in the 10th National Assembly, Senator-Elect, Suleiman...
Appraising the core duty of lawmaking, OrderPaper rewards eighteen performing members of outgoing Ninth National Assembly for making it to the Semifinals of the country’s first-ever Most Valuable Parliamentarian Hall of Fame READ ALSO: OrderPaper hosts Night of Glamour in honour of performing NASS members Eighteen members of the outgoing Ninth National Assembly have received Certificates of Recognition for their valuable contributions in the core legislative function of lawmaking over the last...
The inductees who emerged as finalists after a rigorous selection process overseen by an MVP Panel of Experts (MPEs), which started with the nomination of fifty-five federal lawmakers as of midterm (June 2022) of the Ninth National Assembly were presented with plaques at a well-attended ceremony READ ALSO: OrderPaper hosts Night of Glamour in honour of performing NASS members As the tenure of the Ninth National Assembly slowly grinds to...
Nigeria’s foremost independent parliamentary monitoring organisation, OrderPaper hosts twenty-three performing members of the outgoing Ninth National Assembly at Night of Glamour, inducts five federal lawmakers into country’s first-ever Most Valuable Parliamentarian Hall of Fame READ ALSO: OrderPaper rewards 18 NASS Members for valuable contributions in lawmaking The much anticipated ‘Night of Glamour’ heralding the induction of the best-performing lawmakers in the 469-member Ninth National Assembly into Nigeria’s first-ever Most Valuable Parliamentarian Hall...
Oke Epia is the Founder of OrderPaper, Nigeria’s foremost independent parliamentary monitoring organisation and policy think tank that bridges the gap between people and parliament. An assessment of the Buhari presidency and the national assembly must necessarily be viewed from two lenses. One is the character and personality of the president himself. The other is the bifurcated fractious power play co-located within the presidency itself and the outlying centrifugal forces battling for...
OrderPaper to unveil ‘Best of the Best Legislators’ in Ninth National Assembly at Night of Glamour in Abuja. Deserving finalists to be inducted into Most Valuable Parliamentarian (MVPs) Hall of Fame READ ALSO: #FixPolitics: “MVP Hall of Fame will compel healthy rivalry among lawmakers” President of the Senate in the 8th Assembly, Senator Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the 4th House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Na’Ábba have associated with the...
As provided in the bill, sources of funding for the programme shall include one percent of surcharge of all salaries and allowances of all elected members of the National Assembly. The Senate has passed, for second reading, a Bill for an Act to Establish a Parliamentary Welfare Programme for former legislators. The Bill, which was passed on Wednesday, seeks to promote and recover former legislators and cater for their welfare. Sponsor of the...
Public Affairs Analyst, Emmanuel Ajibulu pens opinion piece calling for all key members of the party have a say in the decision-making process of NASS Presiding Officers, makes case for Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation as best man for the job By Emmanuel Ajibulu READ ALSO: Parliament Special: Nigeria’s 10th National Assembly and the ghost of 2015 As the only legitimate arm of government endowed with the mandate...
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