Reps want ban on unpainted, unlicensed taxis in Abuja
Mr Abejide also called for the extension of the proposed regulation to Uber and other ride-hailing companies.
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Mr Abejide also called for the extension of the proposed regulation to Uber and other ride-hailing companies.
The plan to spend $100 million on repairing a single building at a time key infrastructure, hospitals and schools across...
"There'll always be naysayers, but we'll continue to do what we need to do as legislature."
The bill, sponsored by John Dyegh (APC, Benue), was due for the second reading when the majority of the lawmakers...
Analysis of the newly passed 2020 appropriation shows that capacity building and empowerment projects will take the largest chunk of...
Nigerian senators last week commenced the amendment of the law that allows for the discrimination against women in the Nigeria...
The ICPC says constituency projects by lawmakers have become convenient conduits for embezzling public funds.
The lawmakers say they are constrained "from discussing some issues already in a court of law."
The bill seeks to alter Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution.
The National Union of Electricity Employees are agitating over unpaid pensions of 2,000 disengaged staff of the defunct Power Holding...
The invasion violates section 43 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, which forbids effecting arrest in a courtroom,...
The Senate passed the 2020 budget, raising it to ₦10.6 trillion from the ₦10.33 trillion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari...
She also said she fears that her husband might be in great danger unless the U.S. government intervenes.
The NUJ in a statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES by its spokesperson, Usman Leman, condemned the SSS actions.
The report says Nigeria has slipped from being an "obstructed" nation in 2018 to a "repressed" nation.
The aggregate of the newly passed budget was upped to ₦10.6 trillion.
The lawmakers said the results of the census in 2006 is no longer effective for policymaking.
The report will be considered by the lawmakers towards passage of the budget bill.
Senate committee promised to work with the federal government to offset the arrears.
The committee on Appropriation begged for an extension. The budget would now be passed on December 5.
Mr Adeyemi is returning to the Senate about five years after he lost the seat to Mr Melaye.
A lawmaker explains how over N600 million was budgeted for the commission in three years.
"If Nigerians don't want these bills, even though they are being sponsored by our colleagues, certainly it won't escape the...
An altercation occurred at the NASS as a policeman seized a journalist's camera.
Mr Fashanu spoke at a book launch, titled "After the game, what next?"
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