This week’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) tracker highlights the town hall meeting between Nigerian youths and the members of the House of Representatives to avert nationwide protest against hardship, hunger, and bad governance. Why the Call for Protest Nigerian youths had planned a protest before the House of Representatives announced a town hall meeting with select groups. The August 1st to 10th nationwide protest was initiated to end bad governance. Due to the...
The war between the duo seems to know no end as Ireti slams Wike over allegations of sponsoring anti-government protests. Senator Ireti Kingibe (LP, FCT) has slammed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, for claiming that security agencies have identified a senator as one of the sponsors of the anti-government protests. Senator Kingibe took to her X handle early on Friday to respond to the claims and warned that she will...
A move by representatives to donate 50% of their salaries in response to the nationwide protest appears to be no more than window dressing Members of the House of Representatives have announced a 50% cut off their salaries for the next 6 months. This decision comes as immediate response to the nationwide hunger protest. It also comes just in the nick of time as inflation and cost of living are on a sharp rise leaving...
Reps staged a walkout over approval for CBN to lend more money to government as 2024 budget is amended again Opposition Reps stage walkout over raise of ways and means threshold The emergency session at the House of Representatives called yesterday turned rodwy as some opposition lawmakers staged a walkout from the green chamber over the increment of the controversial Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ways and means lending to the Federal Government by 10%....
Appeal to protesters to halt action, another amendment to the 2024 budget and an increase in CBN’s lending to the government are the issues addressed in the Senate yesterday Senate makes another amendment on 2024 appropriation The senate has passed a bill seeking to amend the long title and certain other clauses of the 2024 appropriation law. In a lead debate, leader of the senate, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC, Ekiti Central) noted that after critical...
Despite objection by some lawmakers in the House of Representatives, both the Senate and House okayed a raise to 10% in Ways and Means by the CBN to Federal government The House of Representatives and Senate has both resolved to increase the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s advances to the Federal Government from five percent to a maximum of ten percent. This was a major outcome of the emergency plenary session held on Wednesday by...
The Senate assured that the government has commenced executing measures to meet the demands of the protesters The Senate has appealed to organisers of the proposed #Endbadgovernance protests slated to commence tomorrow Thursday, August 1, to give President Bola Tinubu more time to allow his policies to yield desired results. This appeal was made during Wednesday’s emergency plenary sittings following an executive/closed-door session of the Senate which lasted for over an hour and 30 minutes....
The House of Representatives will hold an emergency plenary session on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 as Speaker Abbas plans to host a town hall meeting with young Nigerians. Barely six days into its annual recess, the House of Representatives has summoned members from their respective constituencies to attend a crucial emergency plenary session on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. It also revealed that the Speaker Tajudeen Abbas (APC Kaduna), will host town hall engagement with young...
In September 2022, gunmen ambushed Senator Ubah’s convoy in Enugwu-Ukwu, Anambra State, while he was travelling to Nnewi. At least five people were killed, including two police officers. Ubah had survived because the car he was travelling in was bulletproof. Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, the Senator representing Anambra South under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) died on Friday, July 26, 2024 in London. The business mogul and politician had departed Nigeria for the...
Almost one year after concluding an investigation on oil theft and stalling on the report, another committee of the House of Representatives has vowed to unravel how Nigeria lost over $10bn to the plague in the last 7 months. One year after an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives concluded investigation into oil theft and failing to act on a report laid before plenary, another panel of the parliament has begun another probe. This...
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