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After two delayed appearance, the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, finally met with the House ad-hoc committee  The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd.), on Friday, requested for more time to adequately prepare and present a comprehensive and constructive briefing to the House ad-hoc committee on emergency rule. Parliament Reports recalls that the Sole Administrator was unable to honour the panel’s earlier invitation for two consecutive times....

Rivers’ sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete (rtd.), has been invited by the House ad-hoc Committee  for an interactive session The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on Rivers state oversight has invited the sole administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete (rtd.), to appear before it on Thursday for a comprehensive interactive session. This was contained in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the House Rep. Akin Rotimi Jr. on Wednesday. Parliament Reports recalls that a 21-member ad-hoc...

Speaker Abbas inaugurated a 21-member ad-hoc committee on Rivers State emergency rule and charged them to prioritise transparency and non-partisanship Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday, inaugurated a 21-member ad-hoc committee to oversight the emergency rule in Rivers State. The committee is chaired by the Majority Leader, Rep. Julius Ihonvbere (APC Edo), with the Minority Whip, Rep. Ali Isa J.C. (PDP Gombe), serving as Deputy Chairman. Other key members include...

A transformative shift is in the horizon for mothers in Nigeria as House of Representatives push for six months maternity leave A bill for an Act to amend the Labour Act, Cap. L1 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to increase the maternity leave period of working women to six months and for related matters  has passed the second reading in the House of Representatives. This is a significant step to increase maternity leave...

A bold move is afoot in the House of Representatives to return Nigeria to a parliamentary system of government. Will the constitutional amendment bill become a law? Here’s what you need to know Nigeria’s political landscape might be on the brink of a transformative shift with the introduction of a constitution amendment bill sponsored by the House of Representatives Minority Leader, Rep. Kingsley Chinda and 59 others has passed second reading. The bill proposes a...

The BOI and NIRSAL are among other federal agencies that failed to honour invitation to the ongoing probe into the N1.12 trillion anchor borrowers funds The House of Representatives Committee on Nutrition and Food Security has threatened to issue warrants of arrest on key federal agencies that failed to appear before it. The arrest threat was issued on Tuesday during an investigative hearing into the anchor borrowers programme and other agricultural policies of the federal...