Nigeria’s election management body would be spending at least N305 billion on the 2023 Elections, with an estimated $5.39 to be spent per voter (using an estimate of 100m registered voters). This week’s episode of our Parliament Fact File is a breakdown of the 2023 Election Budget as prepared by the Independent National Electoral Commission and approved by the National Assembly for the crucial polls BREAKDOWN OF THE 2023 ELECTION BUDGET S/N Item Cost...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan highlights the role of labour in attracting Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) at Senate’s public hearing; as Stakeholders resist move to remove Institute from present location Stakeholders in the education sector at a public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) on Thursday threw their weight behind a bill to give legal backing to the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA),...
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives express concern about the functionality of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and the National Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA), demands five-year performance assessment report The House Ad-hoc Committee investigating Overlapping Functions of Government Agencies on Thursday, has demanded a five-year performance assessment report from the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to justify its existence in line with the mandate of the probe panel. The Committee noted that the...
Lawmakers in the House of Reps assure Nigerians that Diaspora Voting Bill will be re-introduced, as Abike Dabiri-Erewa-led Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) appears before House Committee on Diaspora The House Committee on Diaspora, Thursday pledged to reintroduce the Diaspora voting bill in so as to accommodate Nigerians living abroad. Chairperson of the committee, Rep. Tolulope Shadipe, disclosed this when Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairperson and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission...
Throwback Thursday is OrderPaper’s special programme focused on historical trends in the polity. It spotlights the genesis of the same and previous interventions by the National Assembly in that regard; while exploring the present as well as the way forward In 2012, rivers burst their banks and submerged vast lands in 30 states, killing over 400 people and displacing over 2.1 million others as of November 5th 2012. According to the National Emergency Management Agency...
Following a successful term after his election to the Red Chamber on the platform of the majority All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, he won a re-election to the Ninth Senate and has five bills to his credit in the 9th National Assembly. Guess who the spotlight is on This week’s episode of Parliament Spotlight is on 66-year old Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf; a member of the Ninth National Assembly and current Chairman of...
A core part of the law making process is the debate on ‘general principles of a bill.’ Indeed, the House of Representatives and the Senate both adhere to conventional parliamentary procedures, just like most official gatherings. There are however, rules guiding this process in parliament and this week’s episode of #MondayMeme highlights some of the Rules of Debate in the Nigerian Senate; the red chamber of the National Assembly. Below are a few of them:...
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