The crisis rocking the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has again taken a new turn as lawmakers elected on the platform of the party in the National Assembly, have raised the alarm over an alleged plot to shift the election of a new national chairman at Thursday's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting to August. They claimed…

A group of 60 federal lawmakers from opposition parties has raised concerns about a potential attempt to use the courts to illegally extend the terms of local government (LGA) chairmen in Rivers State. The lawmakers, led by Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, claim that former Rivers State Assembly members who switched to the All Progressives Congress…

Deep divisions have emerged within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a significant bloc of federal lawmakers threatens to defect over alleged efforts by the party's leadership to install agents of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in key positions. At a press conference on Monday, a coalition of at least 60 PDP lawmakers, led…

A bill for the amendment of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Act to increase its funding from the consolidated revenue from two to four per cent has passed a second reading in the House of Representatives.

Apparently to correct inherent flaws inhibiting development at the grassroots, the Lagos State House of Assembly has begun a review of administrative laws of the Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

In addition to their lawmaking responsibility, legislators facilitate projects to their constituencies. They take undue advantage of their powers to control public funds (Section 80 of the Constitution) to add projects execution to lawmaking.

A sigh of relief may be echoing across Nigerian districts as the saga of the Federal Government's rice palliatives takes a positive turn. After weeks of public scrutiny and conflicting information, distribution is finally set to begin. Some constituents had became agitated since the plan was divulged and they didn't receive any palliative. However, the…

Factionalising parliaments is not new in Nigeria, but the legal effect of the resolutions passed by the party that are not able to form a quorum in its sittings has not been comprehensively tested, as such conflicts persist.

When a call for transparency, responsibility, accountability and integrity has smacked a semblance of evangelism and pentecostalism, then the few privileged, bequeathed elites have mimicked criminality and rascality as a desirable template for enthronement.

• CSO asks Yari, others to challenge amendment in court Barely two weeks after the 10th Senate faced an impeachment scare, the chamber, yesterday, amended its standing rule, barring first-term lawmakers from seeking election as Senate President or Deputy Senate President. Adopting a motion sponsored by Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, Senate amended Section Three of…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has said abuse of tax incentives and waivers is an act of economic sabotage, which must be discontinued.

House of Representatives, yesterday, said it uncovered how the National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) allegedly spent N81.2 billion to plant 21 million trees across 11 frontline states. The states are: Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa, Yobe and Borno. The lawmakers, who spoke during an investigative hearing on ‘Utilisation of…