#LegislativeBrief: One step closer to criminalising same sex marriage + FG...
It was a busy Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives. Two widely publicised issue – one to essentially criminalise a lifestyle choice, and another to check the Big Brother tendencies of...
View ArticleVision 2019: Ekweremadu Committee fixes take off date for single-term tenure
A six-year single term for the President and governors, with a possible 2019 take-off date may not be that far-fetched. This is among the recommendations of the Senate Committee on the Review of the...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Sorry but err, no new states
For supporters and proponents of state creation, the battle may be all but lost as the Senate yesterday, foreclosed the emergence of new states as part of the ongoing amendment of the Constitution. The...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Budget amendment ‘suspended indefinitely’ + Patience...
The scheduled debate on the 2013 Appropriation Act Amendment Bill stalled yesterday at the House of Representatives, and its consideration suspended indefinitely. At Wednesday’s sitting, House Leader,...
View ArticleQuit already: David Mark asks politicians to stop heating the polity
David Mark, Senate President at the end of the second session of the 7th senate appraisal yesterday condemned the inflammatory comments being traded in the stand-of between President Goodluck Jonathan,...
View ArticleCapital Yes: See how your reps want 40 per cent of Nigeria’s budget to be...
If the House of Representatives has its way, 40 per cent of Nigeria’s budget for the next 10 years would be reserved for capital projects. Already, a bill for an act to establish that law has scaled...
View ArticleLegislative Brief: Sack them while they’re young ey? Reshuffle in House...
Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the house of representatives says the leadership of the house may soon drop non-performing chairmen and replace them with better people. He says that in the last two years,...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: From Nigeria Police Force to Nigeria Police + To impeach...
We always like to say that the National Assembly is busy working for their constituencies, making the right laws and ensuring that government policy is coherent, understandable and rational. If recent...
View Article#PoliticalTalk: “We could have done far better than we have done”– Senate...
In a political space mired by accusations, counter-accusations, scandals, political trickery and brinkmanship all playing out before a spellbound but rather unimpressed electorate, the Senate has been...
View Article“I am the Speaker of Nigeria and not the PDP alone”– Tambuwal
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal wasn’t mincing words this past weekend when he said that he is Speaker for all of Nigeria and not for his party, the Peoples’...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Pass or Fail? – 227 out of 344 bills stalled in the Senate...
As the Seventh Senate marks the end of its second legislative session this month, it has now been revealed that 227 of its bills have been stalled at the level of first reading since June 2011. This is...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: The state of the nation bill had two senators fisting at...
The hallowed sanctums of the Senate, a place where decorum, dialogue and diplomacy are the operating standard; certainly not the place where a boxing championship is fought and won. However, that is...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: The Senate didn’t buy Zamfara’s plans to arm vigilantes +...
Everybody is slowly warming to the consensus that there are way too many illegal weapons in the country. To this end, the Senate on Thursday, soundly rejected plans by Zamfara Governor Abdulaziz Yari...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: House to strip President, governors from immunity + free...
The Vanguard is reporting that the House of Representatives’ drive to strip the President and governors of immunity from prosecution for criminal offences while in office may sail through despite its...
View ArticleWATCH: “Half of us here in the Senate own guns”– Ndume
Members of the Senate recently chalked off an alleged move by Zamfara Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, to arm vigilante groups in the state with weapons in a bid to address insecurity in the state. [READ:...
View Article#RiversDiaries: Reactions to the show of shame at the Rivers House of Assembly
Yesterday, matters came to a head at the Rivers House of Assembly in a series of bizarre events. First, the current speaker of the House, Hon Dan Amachree, was impeached by 5 members (out of 32) during...
View Article#RiversDiaries: Started from a handshake and a slap, now we’re here (WATCH)
The theatrics in the hallowed chambers of the Rivers House of Assembly yesterday are befuddling to some, and ‘been a long time coming’ to others. How members of the House brought in thugs to attack...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Senate to vote on Tuesday on constitutional amendments
In our digest of happenings at the National Assembly, the Senate on Thursday concluded debates on the report of the committee on the review of the Constitution and deferred voting till Tuesday, the...
View Article#RiversDiaries: “A revolution might come out of it”– Deputy Speaker, errr…...
Kwanee Leyii, Deputy Speaker of the Rivers House of Assembly, spoke to Punch on the crisis rocking the state, the impeachment, and the National Assembly’s intervention. We bring you five things we took...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Anti-Amaechi legislators accuse Senate Committee of bias
The five members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to the minister of state for Education, Barrister Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike led by Honorable Bapakaye Bipi, have, have accused the Senate...
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