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Bill seeking death penalty for kidnappers advances in Senate

Leah TwakiDecember 5, 20252 min

Bill seeking death penalty for kidnappers has pass second reading in Senate The Senate on Wednesday passed the second reading of a bill seeking to amend the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act to classify kidnapping, hostage-taking and related offenses as acts of terrorism. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, prescribes the death penalty without the option of a fine or alternative sentence for offenders. Leading the debate on the bill, Senator Bamidele...

House of Representatives Senate

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...

House of Representatives

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...

House of Representatives

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...

Senate

Tinubu nominates former INEC chair, Omokiri, Fani-Kayode, 29 others as ambassadors

Leah TwakiDecember 2, 20253 min

President Tinubu has transmitted the names of 32 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation President Bola Tinubu has sent the names of 32 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, days after he sent the first batch of three nominees. This was contained in a statement signed by Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, on Saturday evening. According to the two separate letters addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, President Tinubu requested the Senate to...

House of Representatives

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...

House of Representatives

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...

House of Representatives

Insecurity: House of Reps convene session on security

Leah TwakiNovember 27, 20254 min

The House of Representatives convened a special plenary session on Tuesday devoted entirely to Nigeria’s escalating national security crisis The House of Representatives on Tuesday convened a special plenary session devoted entirely to Nigeria’s escalating national security concerns. The sitting also featured the admission of a visiting parliamentary delegation from St. Kitts and Nevis, led by its Speaker, Lanein Blanchette, alongside officials from the United States Embassy. Throughout the session, chairmen of key security-related committees,...

House of Representatives

NASS to meet 36 governors as constitution review nears voting

Leah TwakiNovember 27, 20254 min

The joint committees on constitution review in the Senate and House of Representatives have set Wednesday to brief the 36 state governors on the outcome of the joint session The National Assembly said that it will brief 36 State governors on the outcome of the joint session of the Senate and the House on the Constitution review process on Wednesday The Deputy Speaker of the House, Benjamin Kalu, made the disclosure while delivering his opening...

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