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Reps approve N1.1trn Customs budget

Leah TwakiJune 24, 20253 min

The House committee on customs also issued a June 30 ultimatum to the Nigeria Customs Services to stop illegal levies or face sanctions The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has approved the proposed N1.132 trillion 2025 budget for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The approval followed a presentation by the Comptroller General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, who was represented by Deputy Comptroller General in charge of Finance, Administration, and Technical Services,...

Senate

Senate backs nearly 50% increase in Rivers’ budget

Sharon EboesomiJune 20, 20255 min

A key highlight of the revised budget is a ₦50 billion provision for clearing outstanding pensions and gratuities The senate has defended the sharp upward review of the 2025 budget for Rivers state, describing the adjustments as necessary, people-focused, and vital for sustaining peace and development under the current emergency administration. The revised appropriation, submitted to the national assembly by the state’s sole administrator through the President and Commander-in-Chief, reflects a nearly 50 percent increase...

House of Representatives Senate

#FixPolitics rates Tinubu’s midterm performance low

Leah TwakiJune 19, 20255 min

#FixPolitics has rated Tinubu’s midterm performance, calling for more actions on electoral and economic reforms, strengthening of anti-graft institutions and security agencies Leading civil society organisation, #FixPolitics initiative, has released a hard-hitting evaluation of President Bola Tinubu administration’s midterm performance, decrying democratic decline, economic hardship, and persistent insecurity. It charged the administration to do more on electoral and economic reforms, strengthen anti-graft institutions and security agencies. In a statement signed by its Executive Director, Anthony...

House of Representatives

Tinubu assents bills establishing 3 tertiary institutions in south east

Leah TwakiJune 19, 20252 min

President Tinubu has signed bills establishing three tertiary institution in the south-east into law President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed into law two bills sponsored by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, establishing Federal College of Education, Bende, Abia State and the Federal University of Medical and Health Sciences, Item Bende, Abia State into law. This was revealed in a statement by Levinus Nwabughiogu, the Chief Press Secretary to...

Senate

Benue Killings: Senators to escort Tinubu on condolence visit

Sharon EboesomiJune 18, 20254 min

The latest massacre occurred on June 12, 2025, when suspected armed herders and militia groups launched coordinated attacks on several communities in Guma and Gwer West local government areas of Benue State. The senate has announced that a delegation of lawmakers will accompany President Bola Tinubu on a visit to Benue State on Wednesday in a show of solidarity following the gruesome killing of over 200 people in the state. The visit, announced by the...

House of Representatives

Reps go after CBN, NIRSAL, BOI over N1.12tr agric cash

Leah TwakiJune 17, 20254 min

NIRSAL Microfinance Bank has disclosed that insecurity has been a major setback to the full implementation of the agricultural loan scheme The House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security has launched an investigation into the alleged mismanagement of over ₦1.12 trillion expended under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), an agricultural intervention initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The probe also extends to the NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, which reportedly disbursed ₦215 billion...

House of Representatives

Tinubu signed 51 bills in 2 years as Reps give scorecard

Leah TwakiJune 14, 20255 min

With a total 2,263 bills, 51 signed into law and 189 passed, the House of Representatives laud achievements at midterm The House of Representatives has disclosed that no fewer than 51 harmonised bills passed by the chamber within the past two years have been assented to by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. House Spokesperson, Rep. Akin Rotimi Jr., said this in a statement on Friday, providing a comprehensive breakdown of the legislative progress recorded so far....

House of Representatives Senate

National Assembly shifts plenary resumption to June 24

Leah TwakiJune 12, 20252 min

The National Assembly adjourned plenary resumption to June 24 to allow members celebrate midterm with constituents The National Assembly has postponed the resumption of plenary sessions from the earlier scheduled date of June 17 to June 24, 2025. Both chambers had adjourned on May 28, 2025, to allow for the Sallah festivities and Democracy Day celebrations, with plans to reconvene on June 17. However, a new resumption date was announced on Thursday during the joint...

House of Representatives Senate

Tinubu hails democracy, pays tribute to MKO, Kudirat, others

Sharon EboesomiJune 12, 20254 min

Tinubu listed key figures in the pro-democracy struggle, including civil rights activists, journalists, and politicians who were either jailed, exiled, tortured or killed. President Bola Tinubu has declared that democracy in Nigeria has “risen from the ashes” since the country’s return to civilian rule in 1999. Addressing a joint sitting of the national assembly to commemorate Democracy Day on Thursday, 12 June 2025, Tinubu paid tribute to both well-known and unsung heroes of Nigeria’s democratic...

Senate

‘You can’t trample democracy under your big presidential foot,’ Dickson slams Tinubu

Sharon EboesomiJune 12, 20257 min

“You cannot preach democracy and practise autocracy. President Tinubu’s speech was eloquent, but his silence on Rivers betrays a troubling disregard for the rule of law.” Sen. Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West and former governor of Bayelsa State, has accused President Bola Tinubu of aiding the erosion of democratic values in Rivers State, describing the unfolding political situation as a “military-style suppression of democracy.” His remarks came on Thursday, 12 June 2025, shortly after the...

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