The Bishop of Lagos Mainland, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Adebayo Dada Akinde, has condemned the proposed immunity for members of the National Assembly.

A Coalition of anti-corruption bodies, under the aegis of Civil Society Network Against Corruption seeks accelerated passage and reviews of corruption-related bills pending before the National Assembly.

“There is nothing like budget padding. If it is the National Assembly that works on the budget, then you don’t call it padding because padding is like an illegality."

Senate President Bukola Saraki, while setting up the committee, said their tasks included preparation and implementation of the fiscal document in order to engender efficiency and transparency.

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday, inaugurated Budget Reform Committee of the Senate, with a charge to it to review budget processes in the country.

There was something unnecessarily exultant about the reports a few days ago of how, for the first time in a while, the federating units of Nigeria had more than N500 billion to share from the federation account in the month of June. So?

National Environmental (Mining and Processing of Coal, Ores, and Industrial Minerals) Regulations, 2009. S.I. No. 31. This Regulation seeks to minimize pollution from mining and processing of coal, ores and industrial minerals.

This has unwittingly encouraged the herdsmen into claiming inalienable rights to graze their cattle anywhere in the country, with the farmers whose major occupation involved the cultivation of ancestral lands having to contend with their crops and farmlands being destroyed.

In the last one year, the 8th session of the Nigerian National Assembly has been in the eyes of the storm ranging from controversies surrounding the emergence of its leaders, the handling of the budget passage and the litigation against its leadership.

Women, numbering 50, yesterday stormed the National Assembly to protest the altercation between Senators Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) and Oluremi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central).

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, stunned members of the chamber when he announced sack of the chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibril.

The alleged plot by members of the National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari has been attracting diverse comments from across the spectrum of the society even when ...