It was a mix of cheers and drama at the joint session of the National Assembly on the 2025 budget presentation as Tinubu joked that all lawmakers are ‘reelected’ ahead of 2027 The National Assembly chambers turned into a mix of cheers and drama last Wednesday as President Bola Tinubu presented the 2025 budget estimates to a joint session of the 10th assembly. In a moment of apparent spontaneity, the President mistakenly referred to the...
After a robust debate, the House of Representatives has advanced the N49.7 trillion 2025 appropriation bill to second reading The House of Representatives, after a four-hour robust debate on Thursday, passed the second reading of the N49.7 trillion 2025 appropriation bill titled “Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity.” The budget, which President Bola Tinubu presented to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 18, is set to address critical economic and security challenges facing the...
The House of Representatives is to hand over the sum of N704.9 million saved from 50 percent salary cut to President Tinubu on December 31st Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas (APC Kaduna), announced on Thursday that members of the House have collectively contributed N704,907,578.82 from their salaries over the past five months to support vulnerable Nigerians struggling with the economic impact of subsidy removal and rising poverty levels. Speaking during the...
Speaker Abbas has praised President Tinubu’s bold steps to reposition Nigeria saying that it has in no doubt disrupted the status quo in the country The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has praised President Bola Tinubu’s administration saying that the bold steps taken by the president to reposition the Nigerian economy have no doubt disrupted the status quo in the country, sparking strong resistance from vested interests. Speaking during the presentation...
In the 2025 budget estimates, N4.91 trillion was allocated to defence, N4.06 trillion to infrastructure while education and health got N3.52 trillion and N2.48 trillion respectively. President Bola Tinubu has allocated a lion share of N4.91 trillion to defence while the education sector will gulp N3.52 trillion in the 2025 fiscal year. These were revealed during the president’s 2025 budget presentation to a joint session of the national assembly Wednesday. Tagged, “the restoration budget: securing peace,...
At plenary today, the House suspended its rules for the 2025 Budget presentation while an investigation into an agricultural mechanisation programme was called. House rules suspended ahead of budget presentation Ahead of the 2025 budget presentation by President Bola Tinubu, the House of Representatives on Tuesday suspended its rules to admit non-members into the chambers tomorrow, Wednesday. Just as indicated on Tuesday’s order paper, the speaker at the end of plenary asked the House Leader,...
The CDS, COAS and the Commanding Officer of 177 battalion have some explanations to give before the House Committees on Army, Human Rights and Justice this Thursday over unlawful detention The House of Representatives has strongly condemned the unlawful arrest and detention of a prominent community leader, Alhaji Bello Badejo, by officers of the 177 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, calling it a violation of his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution....
President Tinubu and Deputy Speaker Kalu praised for the swift enactment and constitution of the South East Development Commission (SEDC), which addressed 54 years of marginalisation in the region. The Chairman of the Security, Climate Change, and Special Interventions Committee on the Governing Board of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Rep. Sam Ifeanyi Onuigbo, has commended President Bola Tinubu for taking a historic step toward addressing long-standing marginalization in the South East by...
On Thursday, the House passed a whopping 15 bills, including the Nigerian content and CSR bills, while the Labour Party lost another Rep to the APC Uproar as Plateau Rep defects from Labour Party The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again gained one more member as a Plateau lawmaker, Rep. Ajang Alfred Iliya defected from the Labour Party. In a letter read by the Speaker on Thursday, Rep. Iliya, cited internal crises within the Labour...
The federal government has been asked by the House of Reps to stop the unprofessional disposal of seized stolen crude oil The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to halt environmental hostile practice and adopt eco-friendly and professional method of disposing of crude oil and allied materials seized, in the course of security operations. It also urged the security agents to include environmental experts to supervise the disposal of seized crude which...
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