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Okonkwo emerges ADP candidate for Anambra gubernatorial election

“Ifeanyi Okonkwo had a total of 1,062 out of 1,072 accredited votes to pick the party’s gubernatorial ticket.”

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Agency Report ∣ Comments: 0
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Activist sues National Assembly over purchase of multi-billion Naira cars

Last week, the House of Representatives began delivery of the first batch of 360 Peugeot cars to lawmakers in Abuja.

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Ben Ezeamalu ∣ Comments: 3
Parliament Watch, Top News

National Assembly never complied with FOI Act – Report

“While 60 institutions out of 800 submitted such reports to the AGF in 2015, only 44 submitted in 2016.”

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Evelyn Okakwu ∣ Comments: 3
AGAHRIN, Headline Stories, Parliament Watch, Top News

Nigeria’s National Assembly fails to account for N9 billion – Audit Report

Apart from the National Assembly, other key bodies indicted include the NNPC and Ministry of Interior.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ September 11, 2016 ∣ Comments: 35
Femi Gbajabiamila
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Why National Assembly budgets, lawmakers’ pay should be made public — Gbajabiamila

The Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Festus Owete and Hassan Adebayo, speaks on his defeat in the race for Speaker, why Nigerians are not sympathetic to lawmakers, the huge salaries and allowances earned by the lawmakers and other issues.

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Mohammed Lere ∣ July 3, 2016 ∣ Comments: 0
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

INTERVIEW: Why National Assembly budgets, lawmakers’ pay should be made public — Gbajabiamila

The House Leader also spoke on why he lost the Speakership election.

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Festus Owete ∣ July 2, 2016 ∣ Comments: 26
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Alleged forgery: Court order on Saraki, Ekweremadu pasted in National Assembly

A court authorized service by substituted means.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ June 21, 2016 ∣ Comments: 30
Chambers of the Nigerian Senate used to illustrate the story.
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

Constitution Review: Ekweremadu, others want life pension for National Assembly leaders

Some senators have opposed the proposal.

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Premium Times ∣ June 18, 2016 ∣ Comments: 36
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

​‘OccupyNASS group received about N400, 000 daily for National Assembly protest’

The group says it is ending its campaign after a “resoundingly successful” protest.

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Samuel Ogundipe ∣ April 29, 2016 ∣ Comments: 66
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

Budget Impasse: Multiple protests rock National Assembly

The two groups are demanding urgent action on the 2016 budget.

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Samuel Ogundipe ∣ April 27, 2016 ∣ Comments: 15
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

Buhari refuses to sign 2016 budget, returns document to National Assembly

A spokesperson for the House of Representatives says the president has identified “grey areas”.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ April 21, 2016 ∣ Comments: 125
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

EFCC rejects Ekweremadu as anti-corruption ambassador, disowns National Assembly officer

The EFCC says its National Assembly liaison officer, Sulaiman Bakari, acted outside his brief.

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Premium Times ∣ April 20, 2016 ∣ Comments: 49
Abubakar Malami
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Nigeria Justice Minister rejects Kogi Assembly takeover by National Assembly

The minister says the directive is not biding.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ April 11, 2016 ∣ Comments: 4
Panama Papers, Parliament Watch

#PanamaPapers: Toyin Saraki’s lawyers disagree with husband, say secret assets belong to her alone

Senate president insists assets belong to his wife’s family.

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Bassey Udo ∣ April 5, 2016 ∣ Comments: 70
Election, voters
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2015 Election: Presidential, National Assembly results from Nigeria’s South South inflated – Report

TMG says it deployed 4,000 citizen observers to polling units across the 774 Local Government Areas.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ April 1, 2016 ∣ Comments: 25
Chambers of the Nigerian Senate used to illustrate the story.
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Again, National Assembly disappoints on 2016 budget

The Senate claims to pass the budget as earlier assured “was still within an acceptable error margin”.

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Premium Times ∣ March 17, 2016 ∣ Comments: 3
Headline Stories, Parliament Watch

EXCLUSIVE: Inside National Assembly’s N115 billion budget for 2016; House of Reps gets biggest share

PREMIUM TIMES has exclusively obtained details of the National Assembly’s budget, wrapped in secrecy in the last five years.

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Festus Owete ∣ March 16, 2016 ∣ Comments: 6
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Irritated by fraudulent allocations, National Assembly postpones budget passage indefinitely

The lawmakers denied any rift with the executive but said the National Assembly needed to do a “proper clean-up” of the budget.

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Hassan Adebayo ∣ February 9, 2016 ∣ Comments: 40
Investigation/Special Reports, Parliament Watch

EXCLUSIVE: Obasanjo writes Saraki, Dogara, accuses National Assembly of corruption, greed, lawlessness, impunity

The former president challenges the federal legislature to publish its recurrent budgets for 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015.

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Festus Owete ∣ January 27, 2016 ∣ Comments: 81
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SPECIAL REPORT: How National Assembly’s public account committees engage in massive money laundering

Instead of ensuring probity and accountability in line with their mandate, members engaged in abuse of the nation’s money laundering laws

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Festus Owete ∣ January 24, 2016 ∣ Comments: 12
Headline Stories, News, Parliament Watch

SHOCKING: 2016 budget documents stolen from National Assembly

President Buhari had presented a N6.08 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2016 to a joint session of the National Assembly.

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Musikilu Mojeed ∣ January 12, 2016 ∣ Comments: 153
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Group wants National Assembly leadership investigated for money laundering

CSNAC also wants collaborating banks sanctioned.

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Press Release ∣ January 10, 2016 ∣ Comments: 1
National assembly abuja building
Data & Infographics, Investigation/Special Reports, Parliament Watch

SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the massive money laundering in Nigeria’s National Assembly

The nation’s lawmaking body is involved in abusing Nigeria’s money laundering law it helped enact.

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Festus Owete ∣ December 30, 2015 ∣ Comments: 67
Ike Ekweremadu, PDP, Deputy Senate President
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Fresh facts expose how Ekweremadu, others withdrew N8 billion, laundered funds in failed constitution amendment

Bank documents reveal details of transactions

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Festus Owete ∣ December 17, 2015 ∣ Comments: 74
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EXCLUSIVE: Despite cash crunch, Nigerian Senate illegally buying N4.7billion exotic cars for Saraki, other senators

The Senate is buying the cars at a time millions of Nigerians are facing severe economic hardship

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Sani Tukur ∣ December 12, 2015 ∣ Comments: 58