#OpenLetter: Dear members of the Rivers House of Assembly
Dear Rivers State Legislators, This letter should have started by addressing you as ‘Honourables’, but there is a real struggle to be able to call you that after your show of ignominy last week. Would...
View ArticleThe freed, the sacked, and the sacked: See who made our list of Winners &...
Winners & Losers does a roundup of the week’s major happenings by distilling the ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ of the day’s news cycle. As always, you are welcome to agree or disagree sharply below!...
View ArticleGiants of the world: Our lawmakers earn 116 times more than the average Nigerian
Okay. We’ve always suspected that our representatives at the National Assembly were basking in really voluptuous pay packages. This knowledge will still not prepare you for what you are about to...
View Article#RiversDiaries Continues: The Senate committee is not smiling with state...
The Senate ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the political crisis in Rivers has indicted the State Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu. The committee, in a report which will be laid before the...
View Article#BudgetWars: “What Mr. President presented to us was a mere letter”
Adeyinka Ajayi is the man representing Boripe/Ifelodun/Odo-Otin Federal Constituency of Osun in the House of Representatives. He is also the chairman of the House Committee on Aid, Loan and Debt...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Executive immunity, elections, local government autonomy –...
Like we all know, the nation is in constitution amendment mode. Last week, the Senate controversially voted to reject local government autonomy, and more infamously, retain a clause on citizenship...
View Article“Religion was brought into it, and it became very sensitive”: David Mark on...
The Senate might reconsider its decision to amend Section 29(4)(b) of the 1999 Constitution, which defines the full age of a woman seeking to renounce her citizenship. On Wednesday, President of the...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: The #BudgetWars may be ending as Senate passes budget...
The Senate and the House of Representatives, on Thursday, approved a total of N4,987,220,425,601 in the 2013 budget amendment requested by President Goodluck Jonathan, putting to rest eight months of...
View Article“If it wasn’t there, the Governor of Rivers will today be in court”–...
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that if the removal of immunity clause from the Constitution as approved by lawmakers is passed into law, governance...
View ArticleDavid Mark leaves “a window” open on the call for more states
The Senate President, David Mark, has assured state creation campaigners not to be disillusioned as there is still an opportunity to address the issue. In a statement issued by his Chief Press...
View ArticleLocal governments declare shutdown over Senate’s rejection of fiscal autonomy
Local governments across the country will commence a three-day warning strike starting today (Monday), to protest the refusal of the Senate to grant autonomy for local government. The Senate had...
View ArticleN1.5 million to fuel a car?: See what your Senators and Reps ‘officially’ earn
Just how much do our legislators actually earn? It has been a question that has occupied the imagination of a lot of Nigerians, because the figures have never been publicly known. In spite of the...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: Taraba’s legislature wants to scrap all military edicts...
Lawmakers in Taraba have a real challenge – the continued existence of military edicts in most of the government owned establishments has been seen as a major reason behind the snail paced...
View Article#2013Budget: Are Okonjo-Iweala and the National Assembly on yet another...
The protracted disagreement between the National Assembly and the Presidency over the 2013 budget does not seem to be going anytime soon. In spite of the budget’s recent passage, the...
View Article“We need some time”: The Senate promises to reply Ezekwesili over...
The Senate, Tuesday, said it would soon release “accurate figures” of its expenditure, saying it has nothing to hide. This comes a day after House of Representatives spokesman, Zakari Mohammed,...
View Article“If you don’t like it, ask the RMAFC to slash it”: Some Reps are really...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, that complaints about the rather unflattering pay of Senators and members of the House should be referred to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal...
View Article#PoliticalMath: How the ruling Umbrella may become a minority in the National...
In view of the new fault lines (at least, new to us, not sure it was to Tukur and his gang) that have emerged within the ranks of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, some really smart political...
View Article“So who is the minority now?”: A New PDP legislator finally does the math we...
There is something we have discovered here at YNaija2015 – the politicians are always playing catch up with us. Remember this story? [READ: #PoliticalMath: How the ruling Umbrella may become a minority...
View Article#AsTheHouseResumes: Four things you (and the lawmakers) cannot afford to ignore
The 7th Assembly will resume from its annual recess today. In less than two years, it will be history. But that short period of time, things promise to be very eventful. We can give you a clue. It is...
View Article#LegislativeBrief: A New PDP letter trails a rowdy session as the House...
The House of Representatives resumed Tuesday, from its two month long recess and things got stormy almost immediately following the request for a planned visit by the Kawu Baraje-led New PDP. The new...
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