Tag: National Assembly
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PDP NWC Meets This Week To Determine Who To Support Over 9th National Assembly Leadership
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party will meet in Abuja this week to determine who to support among those aspiring to lead the two chambers of the Ninth National Assembly, The PUNCH learnt on Sunday. Those expected to be at the meeting are members of the party’s National Working Committee led by its…
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N’Assembly Raises Concern Over FIRS N160M Budget For Uniform To 850 Drivers
Agency Report The National Assembly Joint Committee has raised concern over Federal Inland Revenue Service’s (FIRS) 2019 projected estimate of non-oil revenue tax collection of N146.54 billion. The co-chairman of the committee, John Enoh, and other members of the committee raised the concern at FIRS’s budget defence in Abuja on Monday. The committee sought to…
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Photo: Outgoing Senators, Reps Move Property Out of N’Assembly
Lawmakers who did not contest or win reelection in the last general elections have begun to move their belongings out of the National Assembly Complex, The Punch has observed. Properties of lawmakers in the Senate and House of Representatives, who will not be part of the coming 9th National Assembly, were seen being moved out…
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We Don’t Need PDP Lawmakers To Elect N’Assembly Leaders – APC Insists
— APC is playing to the gallery, PDP fires back The ruling All Progressives Congress has reiterated its position that federal lawmakers elected on the party’s platform do not need the support of their colleagues from the Peoples Democratic Party to elect the National Assembly leaders. It said the APC lawmakers could only reach out…
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Details of National Assembly’s 2018 Budget Hits Public Domain
The National Assembly has released the details of its budget for the 2018 fiscal year. The Office of the Senate President disclosed the details of the budget in a tweet on Friday. It explained that the disclosure was in line with the commitment of the leadership of the 8th Assembly to accountability and transparency. The…
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National Assembly Agrees To Reconvene By September
The leaders of the National Assembly have agreed to reconvene before September 25 to consider and approve the budget for the 2019 general elections, Daily Trust has reported. The leadership of the National Assembly agreed to this after the meetings with INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu. It was also reported that both upper and lower chambers…
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Election Budget: Nass To Work With Joint Committee Report For Action
The Chairman Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Suleiman Nazif, on Friday said the committee would submit its report to the Committee on Appropriation for further action. Nazif made this known when the Minister of Budget and Planning, Udo Udoma and INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, appeared before the joint committee on…
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Battles Thicken Between APC, PDP Senators To Control Leadership of Assembly As Nass Reconvens On Tuesday
There are strong indications that the All Progressives Congress senators and their Peoples Democratic Party counterparts are heading for a showdown as the National Assembly reconvenes on Tuesday. Saturday PUNCH reliably gathered on Friday that the bone of contention bordered on what should be discussed at the plenary on Tuesday. It was learnt that senators,…
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Nass Invasion: APC Attacks Saraki Again Even As Police Report Indicts APC Senators
The Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has again hit the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, with verbal attacks, calling him a traitor, betrayer and a man unfit to hold a public office even as a priminary report conducted by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, over the invasion of the National…
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Breaking: National Assembly To Reconven Next Week
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yussuff Lasun, has announced that the National Assembly will be reconvening next week Tuesday. Mr Lasun disclosed this to journalists in a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. The lawmakers upon resumption will look into President Muhammadu Buhari’s request of funding the 2019 general elections. Credit : Channels…