The new health practitioners’ bill that aims to tackle brain drain by keeping Nigeria-trained doctors in the country for five years pre-licensing, is ridiculously shortsighted, wrongheaded, and should be trashed immediately.

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), yesterday, cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC) against foisting principal officers on the National Assembly, saying it will endanger civil rule.

Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North Central, National Assembly caucus, as well as other party leaders from the region, have been urged to adopt Yusuf Gagdi

Ajaokuta Steel Township Youth Vanguard for Development has called on Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, the National Assembly and the incoming President to halt the rush by the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to concession Ajaokuta Steel ...

Exactly a year, after the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) proposed and submitted a new revenue-sharing formula to President Muhammadu Buhari, governors of the 36 states of the federation, have become unhappy and impatient with the delay in getting the proposal signed into law. Accordingly, the state chief executives rose from a meeting…

Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th Assembly in June, House of Representatives member, Mr Dachung Musa Bagos has enjoined the citizenry to scrutinize aspirants jostling to occupy the seats of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaking during the dialogue organised by Orderpaper advocacy initiative aimed at setting agenda for…

With barely 60 days to the expiration of the present ninth National Assembly, the jostle for who takes over leadership of the 10th legislature is getting intense.

Ahead of the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, crisis may be brewing among members-elect of the House of Representatives over alleged plan by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, to impose a successor. 

Last week, it was widely reported that the President assented to sixteen new Bills sent to him by the National Assembly, most of which relate to the amendment of the Constitution.

Former leader of the Seventh Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has declared that the incoming Senate will not be business as usual. Chatting with newsmen in Calabar, yesterday, on his expectations from the incoming National Assembly...

The National Assembly and House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lagos has received over 25 petitions from aggrieved parties in the state.

Constitution amendment bills on power to summon presidents and governors suffered another major setback as President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld his assent. Buhari's withholding of presidential assent to the Constitution alteration bill and 18 others became a source of concern to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the Senate, Tuesday.…