House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, yesterday, resolved to beam its searchlights on Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc over N4.014 trillion debt allegedly owed by some international electricity customers. The committee, led by Mr. Wole Oke, therefore, summoned NBET’s Managing Director to offer explanations on why customers situated in neighbouring Togo, Benin and…

The bill on the discontinuation of the National Youth Service Corps has reached the second reading in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by the lawmaker representing Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Federal Constituency of Rivers State Awaji-Inombek Abiante, in the explanatory memorandum of the proposal, the bill listed various reasons why the NYSC should be scrapped. It said the…

The House of Representatives Committe on Power, says the House has concluded plans to investigate all privatisation in the sector to ensure that the challenges being presently faced are resolved.

House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila Tuesday cut short his trip to the 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Tanzania to reconvene the House from recess. "Will be cutting short my trip to Tanzania for the 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference @CPA_Secretariat and will be leaving today, for the leadership of the @HouseNGR to consider cutting short…

The election for the principal officers of the House of Representatives has commenced with a total of 360 members expected to cast their votes for their preferred candidate. The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani Ataba Omolori, had earlier announced that he had received President Muhammadu Buhari's proclamation of the 9th National Assembly. The…

A group of returning and newly elected members of known as the ‘9th Assembly Progressives’ yesterday adopted Femi Gbajabiamila as speaker and Ahmed Idris Wase as his deputy in the coming Ninth House of Representatives to be inaugurated on June 11. Led by a ranking member, Oluwole Oke (Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Osun State), the group…

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Tuesday said Nigeria's 'disease' is the lack of leadership of the country and not corruption as opined by local and international critics. "Nigeria’s real disease is lack of leadership. I disagree with all those who say our major national disease is financial corruption rather the real disease…

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday sacked Abdulrauf Abdulkadir Modibbo, the elected House of Representatives member for Yola South, Yola North, and Girei Federal Constituency in Adamawa State. Modibbo was disqualified for providing false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the February 2019 election. Justice Inyang Ekwo ruled that the…