As part of OrderPaper’s mandate to bridge the gap between people and parliament, this special edition of its Legislative Intelligence Forecast Entry (LIFE) Service is focused on the Nigerian Senate as it resumes from a five-week annual recess. Authors: Temidayo Taiwo-Sidiq and Ojochenemi Onje-James There are huge indications that both chambers of the National Assembly will resume plenary sessions this week after its annual six-week vacation. Although the House of Representatives has made...
Rep. Aliyu said the project looks to reduce the number of out-of-school children through a non-formal accelerated education system and other alternative schooling programmes. The House of Representatives has disclosed that it is working on a project that will ensure that over 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to school. This is according to the chairman of the Committee on Alternative Education, Rep. Ibrahim Al Mustapha Aliyu (APC, Sokoto). Aliyu, who disclosed this during...
Senator Yar’adua said the recent abduction of the students is a clear indication of the escalating insecurity in the country. The lawmaker representing Katsina Central Senatorial District, Senator Abdul’aziz Musa Yar’Adua, has called for an urgent rescue of female students abducted from the Federal University of Gusau, Zamfara State. Recall that the students were abducted from their hostel by unidentified bandits on Friday. Reacting to the development, Senator Yar’Adua, who chairs the Senate Committee...
Ahead of the resumption of full legislative business in the Tenth Senate next week, all appears not to be well around the Red Chamber with murmurings among Senators on the chances of Senate President, Akpabio remaining in office. What are the underlying issues, and what does it take to remove a President of the Nigerian Senate? The last two weeks have seen the media awash with alleged moves by aggrieved Senators...
The Reps spokesperson informed that upon resumption, the final draft of the Legislative Agenda, which had been earlier developed by an ad-hoc committee will be considered and adopted by the House. Barring last-minute changes, the House of Representatives will resume plenary and other legislative activities on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, to continue the first legislative year of the 10th Assembly. According to a statement by the Chairman of the House Committee on Media and...
In this explainer, we provide insight into the history, mode of operation, function and leadership of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures. The legislature is the lawmaking arm of government at the local, state or federal level in a federation. It is a given, however, that in a representative democracy like Nigeria’s, while the legislature and the judiciary are responsible for lawmaking and interpretation of laws, the Executive is responsible for the implementation...
The Deputy Speaker revealed that a process of streamlining revenue-collecting agencies, which aims to improve coordination, reduce duplicity in tax administration, and ultimately make the system more efficient and transparent is ongoing. The House of Representatives has pledged its commitment to ensuring that certain sections of the country’s laws are altered to engender flexibility in tax and fiscal policy reforms in the ongoing constitutional amendment. This development is coming on the heels of plans to...
Rep. Ihonbvere said he is ready to go the entire length of the law with the Nigerian customs. The chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee probing the disposal of public property, Rep. Julius Ihonbvere, has threatened to invoke relevant legislative powers to compel the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Adewale Adeniyi, to appear before the committee and give details of government property sold by the Service by the Organizations between 2010...
Danzaria said the purpose of the workshop is to encourage discourse on best possible practices for building parliamentary capacity in security sector governance. The Clerk of the House of Representatives, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, has called on clerks of security-related standing committees in the National Assembly, to build parliamentary capacity toward resolving conflicts in the country. This, according to him, must be done with an emphasis on promoting collaboration among the clerks of all security-centered committees...
Abbas the proposed directorate will enable legislators to recruit professional and skilled aides that would assist them in succeeding in their legislative duties. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, has called for the creation of a Directorate for Legislative Aides in the National Assembly to serve as a pool for the recruitment of Legislative Aides by Lawmakers. The Speaker made the call on Wednesday, when the Executive Chairman of the National...
