The House Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness will also review other activities of NEMA and evaluate conformity with its mandates from inception to date. The House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness to probe the usage of funds disbursed to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The Committee is also to examine if funds allotted to the agency are used to execute projects under its jurisdiction, and are in...
Active Citizens Engaging the Legislature (ACEs) is an initiative of OrderPaper, Nigeria’s foremost independent parliamentary monitoring organization and policy think tank, conceived to achieve the implementation of its Legislative Accountability and Constituency Engagement (Leg’ACE) Programme. The Active Citizens Engaging the Legislature (ACEs) community has criticised the National Assembly’s decision to purchase luxury Sports Utility Vehicles, SUVs valued at N57.6 billion for the 360 members of the House of Representatives and 109 Senators, describing it as...
The sponsor of the motion feared that a year after the prison break, the escapees have blended back into society and continued their criminal activities unnoticed. The Nigerian House of Representatives has called on the Nigerian Correctional Service to provide a detailed account of inmates who broke out from the Kuje custodial facility. It also mandated its Committees on Reformatory Institutions, Interior, and Police Affairs to synergise with the heads of the relevant security agencies...
Senator Abdullahi warned against legislative actions that may compound the already precarious economic situation in the country. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi (APC, Kebbi North) has said that Nigeria is facing the worst economic crisis in the history of its existence. Senator Yahaya asserted this at the joint inaugural meeting of the Senate and House Committees on National Planning held on Wednesday, in the National...
The motion sponsor said despite the benefits and reasons for on-boarding the Remita Platform, the rate of revenue leakages is high. The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate revenue leakages through the Remita platform. It also expressed displeasure over the non-compliance by revenue-generating agencies of government of standard operating procedures and other allied service level agreements signed among deposit money banks, office of the AGF, Systemspec, Nigeria Interbank...
The Service Chiefs also took turns to outline their efforts to tackle the country’s security situation. Nigeria Service Chiefs have identified inadequate funding, lack of equipment, and poor welfare as challenges to addressing the security situation in the country. This is as the Chief of Army Staff identified the efforts of security operatives in tackling the prevalence of violent extremism, banditry, militancy, and terrorism in the country. The Service Chiefs spoke at the commencement of...
The House continues its suspended sectoral debate with heads of security agencies as well as those of other sectors. In keeping with its mandate to bridge the gap between citizens and the legislature, OrderPaper’s Legislative Intelligence Forecast (LIFE) Service, by Kauthar Anumba Khaleel, gives an insight into other activities that will take place in the National Assembly during the week. Reps The lawmakers will push for the Investigation into funds disbursed for the alternative school...
The Appellate Court nullified PDP members’ elections and directed that their certificates of return be withdrawn and issued to the first runners-up. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has sworn in Ajang Alfred Iliya (Labor Party), Vincent Vennape (All Progressives Congress), and Fom Dalyop of LP as members of the Green Chamber. They replace three of the four Plateau Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers who were recently sacked. Recall that an Appeal Court sitting...
The Appellate Court held that PDP acted in breach of a subsisting court order when it sponsored the lawmakers as candidates for the National Assembly election on February 25. Over the last couple of weeks, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been hit by judicial judgments, which saw some of its members lose their respective seats to opponents in the National Assembly. No fewer than six of its members in both chambers of the nation’s...
The Nigerian National Assembly is the democratically elected body that makes laws, oversights the government, and represents the interests of Nigerians and the country. It is a bicameral legislature comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives. The House consists of 360 members representing the 360 Federal Constituencies in the country. In this explainer, we break down the membership of the House by geo-political zone. Zones, states and local governments… Nigeria is broadly divided...
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