This week's highlight of activities around the federal parliament spotlights President Buhari's meeting with the House Adhoc Committee on the CBN's Cashless Policy and his assent to ten billsÂ
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With the tenure expiration of the Ninth National Assembly just about four months away, we examine the appropriation of N30.173 billion as severance package for the lawmakers and sundry provisions Severance packages refer to pay and benefits given to employees who leave employment at an organisation unwilfully. Typically, such packages are instituted to help protect the newly unemployed and are offered to employees who are laid off or retire. However, they...
Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) urges Reps Committee to articulate better ways of addressing issues of concerns, sets up own Committee to assist the Reps panel to meet its mandate. “…such policies if not well thought out will affect some certain things, because some of our soldiers are deployed in places where they cannot actually access digital means of paying whatever daily subsistence.” – Rear Admiral Abubakar Mustapha, Director ONSA ...
The lawmaker representing Chanchaga Federal Constituency of Niger State in the House of Representatives, Rep. Mohammed Bago, has described the challenges posed by the scarcity of the new currency and fuel scarcity as generic issues. Bago in stating this during a book launch in Abuja opined that those in support of the naira redesign policy are not considerate of the people’s plight. “People who are advising for the redesign of the...
In this Third-Year Appraisal of the Ninth National Assembly, we examine the performance of the federal legislators from the North Central geo-political zone since the inauguration of parliament in 2019. The zone has the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and six States comprising Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, and Plateau. It also has 19 Senators and a total of 49 members in the House of Representatives. READ ALSO: North East lawmakers sponsored 281 bills in...
We examine the performance of the federal legislators from the South South geo-political zone comprising Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, and Rivers States since the inauguration of parliament in 2019
Caucus Leader, Rep. Shidi, says the action of a few members of the State Executive Council (SEC) was against Section 12 of APC's Constitution; accuses the PDP of being the mastermind behind the crises rocking the party
Nigeria’s North East geo-political zone has six States comprising Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe. In this Third-Year Appraisal of the Ninth National Assembly, we examine the performance of the federal lawmakers from the North East since 2019. The zone has 18 Senators and 48 Members in the House of Representatives representing these six states, respectively. SENATE SCORECARD In the period under review, the performance of the North East...
The zone has a total of 21 Senators and 92 members in the House of Representatives at the National Assembly
Committee Chairman, Rep. Mark Gbillah, emphasises the need to give special protection to whistleblowers in the country in line with the current administration’s policy of fighting corruption. Committee says whistleblowers were intimidated by a retired DIG in the Force Criminal Investigative Department (FCID) who forced them at gunpoint to sign an undertaking not to reveal details of the deal. Any law enforcement agency wanting to track an individual or persons (foreigner or a...