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Reserved Seats for Women: What Nigerians need to know about the bill

Leah TwakiDecember 7, 20256 min

The Reserved Seats for Women Bill initiative is not designed to take anything away from men or reduce existing constituencies but an additional seats to be contested for by only women The proposed constitutional amendment seeking to create special legislative seats exclusively for women is aimed at expanding political inclusion rather than displacing existing representation. Chidozie Aja, special adviser (legislative) in the office of the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, said this during a...

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Child online safety and budget accountability for women’s welfare | GESI Tracker

Jokpa Mudia ErusiafeDecember 6, 20255 min

In this edition of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Tracker, we spotlight two critical developments from the National Assembly: one addressing the rising vulnerability of Nigerian children online; and the other examining funding gaps affecting women’s welfare and gender equality interventions. Child online access protection bill: Strengthening safeguards for vulnerable children In the House of Representatives, the House Leader, Rep. Julius Ihonvbere (APC, Edo), led the debate on the child online access protection...

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Reps give amnesty programme boss 72 hours to answer ₦26bn audit queries, threaten arrest

Leah TwakiDecember 6, 20252 min

Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dennis Otuaro, has a 72-hour deadline to appear before House Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over ₦26bn audit queries or face sanction The House of Representatives has given the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro, a 72-hour deadline to appear before its Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over audit queries totalling more than ₦26 billion. He is expected to face the committee on Tuesday, December 9,...

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Reps panel blames DisCos for crippling power supply

Leah TwakiDecember 5, 20254 min

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has accused electricity DisCos for failing to meet power supply demands, saying firms failed to invest after privatisation The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure from 2007 to 2024 has accused electricity distribution companies (DisCos) of undermining the country’s power supply through years of poor investment, inadequate network expansion, and failure to...

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FRC, OrderPaper flag fiscal gaps in petroleum law

Leah TwakiDecember 3, 20254 min

Executive Chairman of the FRC, Victor Muruako, and the CEO of OrderPaper, Oke Epia, highlighted critical gaps in the petroleum sector fiscal governance provisions of the PIA 2021, called for the advancement of the amendment FRA 2007, bill stalled at second reading at the National Assembly The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), in collaboration with OrderPaper Nigeria, has renewed its call for amendments to the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007 to strengthen public finance management and...

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Reps to investigate N30bn social programme funds

Leah TwakiDecember 3, 20254 min

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the status and whereabouts of the funds recovered from the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), estimated at over N30 billion, from 2024 to 2025 The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to investigate the status and whereabouts of the funds recovered from the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), estimated at over N30 billion, from 2024 to 2025. Parliament Reports recalls that President Bola Tinubu suspended...

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Doguwa launches fiscal policy brief document by FRC, OrderPaper

Leah TwakiDecember 3, 20255 min

Chairman House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Rep. Doguwa has unveiled a new policy brief a joint research publication of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) and OrderPaper Nigeria during a legislative-stateholder engagement The Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Rep. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, on Monday unveiled a new policy brief titled “Governance of Nigeria’s Petroleum Sector: Fiscal Imperatives and the 10th Assembly”, a joint research publication of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission...

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Reps probe power sector spending, summon water resources minister, others

Leah TwakiDecember 2, 20254 min

Minister of Water Resources, heads of key water management agencies, and signatories to the 2005 concession agreement for the 40MW Dadin-Kowa hydropower project have been summoned to appear before House Committee December 4 The Minister of Water Resources, heads of key water management agencies, and signatories to the 2005 concession agreement for the 40MW Dadin-Kowa hydropower project have been summoned by the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating Nigeria’s power sector reforms and expenditure...

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Nigeria recruiting boko haram terrorists into military, police – Rep

Leah TwakiNovember 27, 20256 min

Former deputy speaker, Idris Wase, has raised an alarm boko haram terrorists are being recruited into the military and police A former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ahmed Idris Wase, has revealed that suspected boko haram members and other criminals were once discovered on official recruitment lists for the Nigerian Army and Police. Wase, who represents Wase federal constituency of Plateau state and leads the North-central caucus of the 10th House, made...

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Insecurity: Rep Doguwa calls for “legislative emergency”

Leah TwakiNovember 27, 20254 min

Rep. Doguwa commented on the country’s security situation saying, “we can even declare legislative emergency. Close the House, shut it up” A member of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to declare a “legislative emergency” in response to the country’s worsening security situation, saying Nigeria is “running in blood and tears.” Doguwa, a former Majority Leader of the House, made the call during the special plenary session convened to...

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