President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill might not have long to fly, as the Senate steps up moves to override it .

President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill might not have long to fly, as the Senate steps up moves to override it .

The Senate is worried that most international treaties and conventions entered by the Federal Government over the years do not have the force of law.The upper chamber yesterday said the action was contrary to the provision of the law and insisted, “ no treaty between the Federal Government and any country shall have the force of law.....

A member of the House of Representatives from Akure South/North Federal Constituency of Ondo State, Afe Olowookere, has declared that the National Assembly has constitutional power to reorder the 2019 general election sequence.  Speaking while being presented with a commendation letter by the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Ondo State branch of Nigeria Union of Journalists…

Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has charged Nigerians living outside the country to be more active in the advocacy and lobbying for diaspora voting. He said this would make it easy for the National Assembly to get the needed popular support from Nigerians in carrying out an amendment to the constitution to give Nigerians in…

The attempt to re-order the 2019 general elections by the National Assembly is generating controversy such that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other interested Nigerians are kicking against the move. In this interview with JOSEPH ONYEKWERE, Lagos lawyer, Dayo Ogunjebe says it is within the powers of the National Assembly to re-order the…

One of Nigeria’s foremost legal practitioners, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN has recently published an opinion on the needless controversy over one (1) out of the forty five (45) clauses in the proposed amendment to the extant Electoral Act (see Vanguard Newspaper of Friday 23rd February, 2018). The main thrust of the clause is to amend…

Tougher times await Nigerians following the threat last week to shut-out 63 parastatals and government corporations from accessing funds from the 2018 budget over alleged refusal to appear before the relevant committees of the National Assembly to explain how they spent 2017 budget as well as defend the 2018....

Shareholders’ in the nation’s capital market at the weekend renewed their call for the National Assembly (NAS) to expunge the clause (statues bar) on the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), which prohibits shareholders from claiming dividend after 12 years. The shareholders, who expressed regrets on the increasing level of unclaimed dividend in the market,…

In the last two decades, the last three years has gone down in annals of Nigeria’s politics as the epochal period whereby the young populations in Nigeria got a heavy dose of attention from the topmost echelons of the national parliament. The combination of two young Nigerians as the President of the Senate in the…

The Nigeria Police have said it would deploy no fewer than 1,500 officers and men for Saturday’s National Assembly rerun election for the Mashi/Dutsi House of Representatives seat in Katsina State.

In a bid to stop the high mortality and morbidity of Lassa fever and other infectious epidemic diseases in the country, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the National Assembly to pass the bill establishing the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as a matter of urgency.