House Queries FCTA over N3bn Loan
[Thisday | Mar.05.2009]
The House of Representatives yesterday raised questions over a N3billion loan taken by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) without the approval of the National Assembly. The House Committee on Finance which raised the issue at a meeting with key officials from the FCTA observed that not... [Learn more]

President Retains Power to Appoint INEC Chairman
[Thisday | Mar.05.2009]
Except the National Assembly and at least 24 state Houses of Assembly think otherwise, the President will continue to appoint the Chairman of the Independent National Elec-toral Commission (INEC).This recommendation, which was inserted into the Draft White Paper by the Michael Aondoakaa... [Learn more]

FEC may discuss White Paper on electoral reform today
[Punch | Mar.04.2009]
The Federal Executive Council may decide the fate of the planned electoral reform at its meeting today.There are indications that major amendments have been introduced in the reviewed Draft White Paper for consideration at the meeting... [Learn more]

Reps summon Okiro, SSS boss over killings, kidnappings
[Punch | Mar.04.2009]
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, expressed fears over a possible breakdown of law and order in the country as a result of the rising cases of violent crimes, including kidnappings in various parts of the country... [Learn more]

Constitution: Soyinka accuses N’Assembly of insincerity
[Punch | Mar.04.2009]
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday accused members of the National Assembly of insincerity in the handling of the country’s constitutional problems... [Learn more]

Car Saga: Bankole Gets Clean Bill
[Thisday | Mar.04.2009]
House of Representatives yesterday gave its leadership a clean bill of health over the alleged fraud in the purchase of 380 cars for its committees, and asked security agencies to investigate and prosecute Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo... [Learn more]

Constituency seeks Rep's recall over constitution review suit
[Guardian | Mar.04.2009]
THE knives are out for the member representing Otukpo/Ohimini Federal Constituency of Benue State in the House of Representatives, Nelson Alaapa, over a legal action he allegedly instituted with other House members against the proposed review of the 1999 Constitution at the National Assembly... [Learn more]

The plot against electoral reform, by Okoye
[Guardian | Mar.04.2009]
CIVIL rights activist and member of the Electoral Reform Panel, Mr. Festus Okoye, has alleged that some powerful interests in and outside the Presidency are plotting to ensure that the report of the Electoral Committee is not implemented... [Learn more]

Yar’Adua Approves INEC’s Reorganisation
[Thisday | Mar.03.2009]
A major reorganisation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is under way as President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has okayed the recommendations of the Justice Muhammed Uwais-led Electoral Reforms Panel on the reform of the... [Learn more]

Zailani: Budget Delivered to Presidency Last Friday
[Thisday | Mar.03.2009]
The dust raised yesterday by the media about the whereabout of the copy of the 2009 budget for the President’s assent has settled as the Special Assistant to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on National Assembly Matters, Hon... [Learn more]

House Summons Customs, SON over Toxic Waste
[Thisday | Mar.03.2009]
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Environment has summoned the Director-General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria ( SON), Dr. John Akanya, to appear before it over reports that Nigeria has been turned to dumping ground for toxic waste.Also summoned by the Hon. Duro Faseyi-led committee is the Comptroller-General on the Nigeria Customs Services, Mr. Bernard-Shaw Nwachiallor... [Learn more]

Speakers’ conference and the search for new identity
[Punch | Mar.03.2009]
For a long time, Zaire Crescent, Maitama Abuja, had not witnessed such a huge crowd of personalities. But on Thursday, February 12, the crescent lost its innocence momentarily, Convoys of exotic cars invaded the area as Speakers of state Houses of Assembly across the country converged on the Speakers Conference House to debate on several issues of national significance... [Learn more]

e-Payment: NASS blames banks for hiccups in compliance
[Punch | Mar.03.2009]
The decision of the Federal Government to compel the payment of its contracts by electronic means is creating some anxiety at the National Assembly. Our correspondent gathered on Monday that some officials within the National Assembly bureaucracy were of the opinion that the system ought not to have been imposed on the legislature because it is a separate arm... [Learn more]

Presidency, NASS explain posers over 2009 Budget
[Guardian | Mar.03.2009]
THE controversy over the whereabouts of the clean copy of the 2009 Budget was resolved yesterday as aides to the President and National Assembly officials clarified posers surrounding its... [Learn more]

Reps fault call for Iwu's sack
[Guardian | Mar.03.2009]
A FEW days after the Senate panel on electoral matters said the president did not have the power to remove the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu, some members of the House of Representatives have supported this position... [Learn more]

House Summons Julius Berger, Chinese Firm over Rail Projects
[Thisday | Mar.02.2009]
House of Representatives has summoned construction giant, Julius Berger and the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) over the abandonment of two strategic rail transport projects... [Learn more]

Presidency: Yar’Adua Yet to Receive 2009 Budget
[Thisday | Mar.02.2009]
President Umaru Musa Yar’-Adua is yet to receive the 2009 Approp-riation bill contrary to insinuations that he is refusing to sign the bill reportedly passed by the National Assembly into law, Preside-ntial Spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi has said... [Learn more]

States Creation Committee May Resume States Tour In March
[Guardian | Mar.01.2009]
Determined to hasten the process of creating additional state in the South East geo political zone, the National Assembly Joint Committee on State Creation may soon start touring the affected areas where the agitations are going on, the Senate Committee Chairman on Gas, Senator Osita Izunaso, has disclosed... [Learn more]

Stakeholders Urge NASS To Pass The Biosafety Bill
[Guardian | Mar.01.2009]
TO ensure food security and improve earnings from agro and allied services, stakeholders have urged the National Assembly to put together a regulatory framework that would oversee the policy and practice of biotechnology. A biotechnology bill is now before the National Assembly... [Learn more]

Reps: Silencing the opposition
[Punch | Mar.01.2009]
Oladimeji Bankole, the Speaker of the House of Representatives made a bold move last Thursday in endorsing the suspension of the Chairman of the House Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa, Mr. Independence Ogunewe for unruly behaviour... [Learn more]

Discordant tunes in National Assembly over removal of fuel subsidy
[Punch | Mar.01.2009]
Mixed reactions have emerged from the two chambers of the National Assembly as the Federal Government announced on Thursday its intentions to suspend the regime of subsidies for petroleum products.... [Learn more]

2011: Nwuche Canvasses Electoral Reform Summit
[Thisday | Mar.01.2009]
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Represent-atives, Honourable Chib-udom Nwuche, has called for the convocation of an all-politicians summit to brainstorm on the pitfalls of the Nigerian electoral system and explore common avenues to scale the hurdles of the flawed electoral system ahead of the 2011 elections.... [Learn more]

Reps panel alleges plot to stall Customs reforms
[Guardian | 02.27.2009]
A HOUSE of Representatives Committee on Customs and Exercise yesterday raised an alarm that some persons were conspiring to frustrate the efforts of the lawmakers at proffering solutions to the problems bedevilling the Nigerian Customs Service... [Learn more]

Reps suspend member over misconduct
[Guardian | 02.27.2009]
WORRIED by what members described as misconduct on the floor of the House of Representatives, the Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday warned members not to mistake his patience for weakness. The Speaker gave the warning against the backdrop of a unanimous resolution suspending... [Learn more]

Constitution Review at a standstill, lawmakers wary
[Guardian | 02.27.2009]
WORRIED by what members described as misconduct on the floor of the House of Representatives, the Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday warned members not to mistake his patience for weakness. The Speaker gave the warning against the backdrop of a unanimous resolution suspending... [Learn more]

Only N’Assembly Can Remove Me – Iwu
[Thisday | 02.26.2009]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, yesterday took a swipe at Nigerian politicians accusing them of bias in the call for his resignation vowing to step on toes in the commission’s quest to push for the electoral reform that would be used for the conduct of the 2011 general election... [Learn more]

FEC sets up another committee to study report on electoral reforms
[Punch | 02.26.2009]
The Federal Executive Council has set up another committee to study the report of the draft White Paper of the National Electoral Reform Committee report. The meeting, which lasted about nine hours, deliberated extensively on the White Paper... [Learn more]

Hold governors responsible for violence in states –Reps
[Punch | 02.25.2009]
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence said on Tuesday that governors could not be exonerated from the sectarian violence in their states. It is the contention of the lawmakers that some of the governors instigate the violence to get at their political opponents only to turn around and seek the intervention of the Federal Government through the deployment of soldiers in the streets to quell the riots... [Learn more]

Reps to curtail President’s power on military deployment
[Vanguard | 02.25.2009]
The House of Representatives yesterday commenced a Public Hearing on a Bill that is seeking to reduce the power of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria on the deployment of troops to conflict areas in and outside Nigeria, with a clause for his impeachment if he contravenes the section of the Bill when it becomes an Act of the National Assembly... [Learn more]

Investors Jittery over Oil Sector Reform Bill
[Thisday | 02.25.2009]
The House of Representatives yesterday commenced a Public Hearing on a Bill that is seeking to reduce the power of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria on the deployment of troops to conflict areas in and outside Nigeria, with a clause for his impeachment if he contravenes the section of the Bill when it becomes an Act of the National Assembly... [Learn more]

Reps ask oil firms to pay N222.45 trillion
[Guardian | 02.24.2009]
THE searchlight being beamed by the House of Representatives on the oil sector is yet to be switched off as a fresh report from the adhoc committee investigating operations in the oil sector in the last nine years has directed oil companies to pay outstanding signature bonuses amounting to $1.483 billion (about N222.45 trillion) within six weeks or have their oil blocks' licences revoked... [Learn more]

Buhari, Atiku, Falae Hail Court Verdict
[Thisday | 02.24.2009]
Yesterday's ruling of the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin city which declared Dr. Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party(LP) as the duly elected Governor of Ondo state in the April, 2007 gubernatorial poll has elicited mixed feelings from prominent politicians and political parties... [Learn more]

2011: House Set to Debate Electoral Reforms
[Thisday | 02.20.2009]
Twenty four hours after adopting harmonised version of the 2009 Appropriation Bill, House of Representatives yesterday disclosed plans to get down to more serious legislative business and ensure that its activities made the desired impact on the... [Learn more]

N’Assembly Passes 2009 Harmonised Budget
[Thisday | 02.19.2009]
The National Assembly has passed the 2009 harmonised budget with the Appropriation Bill being jacked up from N3.049 trillion to N3.1 trillion... [Learn more]

House, NSE DG Seek Bailout for Capital Market
[Thisday | 02.19.2009]
The Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) and House Committee on Capital Market yesterday agreed to make a joint presentation to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to bail out the stock market. Between March last year, and yesterday, the stock market had lost over 66 per cent of its value or N7.54 trillion... [Learn more]

N2.3bn car scandal: Reps may suspend five lawmakers
[Punch | 02.18.2009]
Investigations by our correspondent on Tuesday showed that suspension would be a likely penalty for the lawmakers as the House begins the debate on the report of the probe of the N2.3bn car scandal today. [Learn more]

Home Politics Budget 2009: Reps to ‘follow the money?'
[Vanguard | 02.15.2009]
AFTER several weeks of scrutiny, the House of Representatives has finally passed the 2009 appropriation bill. In passing the bill, the House moved to correct an anomaly that tended to breach the constitution: No special accounts should be maintained by government, and all revenues must be channelled to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the federation. [Learn more]

Good Steps by Yar’Adua and Bankole
[Thisday | 02.15.2009]
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua last week directed the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to review downwards his remuneration and those of other political, public and judicial office holders in the country. [Learn more]

Fresh Plot against Bankole over Power Probe
[This Day| 02.09.2009]
There are indications that some House of Represen-tatives members may have begun fresh moves against Speaker Dimeji Bankole over the power probe report. THISDAY learnt that the lawmakers are rooting to force the Speaker to step aside as the House reconvenes tomorrow [Learn more]

House May Probe Fraud Allegations in NERC
[This Day| 02.09.2009]
The House of Representatives may hold a public hearing into the crisis rocking the National Electricity Commission (NERC) to enable the public understand the circumstances leading to the alleged monumental fraud recently uncovered in the agency by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) [Learn more]

Suswam, A Pupil Governor –House
[This Day| 02.09.2009]
The House of Representatives yesterday described Governor Gabriel Suswam as a "pupil governor" following his comments describing the House as immature [Learn more]

Natural Resources Fund: Senate to Probe Illegal Withdrawals
[This Day| 02.09.2009]
The Senate has set machinery in motion to investigate the status of the Development of National Resources Fund (DNRF) and the expenditure of several billions of naira from the Fund without the approval of the national Assembly [Learn more]

Relocation C’ttee Recommended My Town – Oni
[This Day| 02.09.2009]
Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni, at the weekend, said the decision to site College of Education in his home town was sequel to a recommendation by the committee set up by government.Oni, while answering questions from reporters in his office in Ado Ekiti, weekend, said the move to relocate the College of Education was the offshoot of an agreement between the community leaders and the state government, which demanded for the university. [Learn more]

Budget 2009: FCT Presentation Causes Panic Among Ministers
[This Day| 02.05.2009]
Citing constitutional limitations, the Senate yesterday rejected the recommendation by the Joint Committee of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Housing to ban former Minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, from holding public office whether now or in the future. ... [Learn more]

El-Rufai Escapes Ban from Public Office
[This Day| 02.05.2009]
Citing constitutional limitations, the Senate yesterday rejected the recommendation by the Joint Committee of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Housing to ban former Minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, from holding public office whether now or in the future. ... [Learn more]

House Split over Seniority Battle with Senate
[This Day| 02.03.2009]
The move by some members of the House of Representatives to shift the supremacy battle between the House and Senate to the court yesterday elicited mixed feelings from the lawmakers... [Learn more]

Constitution Review: A South-east Perspective
[This Day| 02.02.2009]
Recently, Chief Joy Emodi, the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, undertook a sensitization tour of her constituency to enlighten the people on the ongoing efforts of the National Assembly to review the 1999 constitution. Charles Onyekamuo reports that one recurrent expression of the people during the tour was the call for the creation of more states... [Learn more]

Bankole: How Nigeria Lost $14bn Foreign Investment
[This Day| 01.29.2009]
All hands are still on deck to see where the alleged needless confrontation between the Senate and the House of Representatives will end. Omololu Ogunmade, examines the development and the aspersions it casts on the integrity of the lawmakers to carry out a wholesome constitutional review... [Learn more]

Constitution: Implications of Senate/House Stand-off
[This Day| 01.27.2009]
All hands are still on deck to see where the alleged needless confrontation between the Senate and the House of Representatives will end. Omololu Ogunmade, examines the development and the aspersions it casts on the integrity of the lawmakers to carry out a wholesome constitutional review... [Learn more]

House Jacks Up 2009 Budget By N170bn
[This Day | 01.29.2009]
he 2009 Budget may not be ready anytime soon for President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s assent. This is because the House of Representatives yesterday laid in plenary its own version of the 2009 Appropriation bill with a proposal to authorise the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation the sum of N3,087,046,287,092 only, which is different from what the Senate passed... [Learn more]

Constitution review: Senate, Reps vote for joint exercise
[This Day | 29.01.09]
The Senate and the House of Representatives have resolved to continue the review of the 1999 Constitution on the basis of a joint committee, dumping their earlier decision to do the exercise separately... [Learn more]

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