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The House committee on constitution review is set to hold public hearings in the northern and southern zones of the country and urges citizens to participate The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review, chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Rep Benjamin Kalu, on Wednesday unveiled a compendium of 86 constitution amendment bills, marking a major milestone in the ongoing review process. The compressed compendium, offers a summarized yet comprehensive guide to the proposed amendments, categorized...

The House of Representatives has sent a clear signal to the Senate for stalling concurrence to House-passed legislations The House of Representatives has resolved to suspend further consideration of Senate-originated bills, citing persistent delays in giving concurrence to House-passed legislations. The resolution followed an observation by Minority Leader, Rep. Kingsley Chinda (PDP Rivers), during Wednesday’s plenary, where he noted that while the House consistently gives attention to Senate bills, the Senate has failed to reciprocate,...

Allocations such as N24bn for CCTV, N30bn for gunboats, N23bn contingency fund has been queried in 2025 Rivers budget The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Rivers State has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), the Sole Administrator of the state, to provide detailed breakdowns of major expenditure items in the proposed ₦1.48 trillion 2025 appropriation bill. Chairman of the Committee and House Majority Leader, Rep. Julius Ihonvbere (APC-Edo), handed down...

The House committee on alternative education has emphasised the urgent need to empower Nigerian youths through structured vocational and entrepreneurial training The House of Representatives has taken a bold step to combat youth unemployment through structured alternative education, as it began deliberations on a bill seeking to establish vocational and skills training centres in all 774 local government areas of Nigeria. Speaking at a maiden public hearing on the proposed legislation recently, Chairman of the...

The House Ad-hoc Committee is set to investigate the implementation of Nigeria’s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) policy The House of Representatives has inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to investigate the implementation of Nigeria’s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) policy. Chairman of the committee, Rep. Ahmadu Jaha (APC–Borno), who spoke during the inauguration ceremony in Abuja recently, said that the mandate included assessing the safety, viability and sustainability of the CNG policy in Nigeria. He noted that a...

President Tinubu has rejected the NDLEA Act amendment bill citing departure from the current legal framework  President Bola Tinubu has withheld assent to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) amendment Bill 2025. In a communication read by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas during plenary on Thursday, the president cited constitutional grounds for his decision, referencing section 58, subsection 4 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The president explained that...