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The assembly recently elected a new majority leader and chief whip.

“We must avoid intimidation and rip-off of our members.”

The tax reform bill was adopted at the Committee of the Whole after considering the report of the House Committee ...

The House urged the army to release its investigation report and rebuild the homes destroyed by their men in the ...

The lawmakers said the 2004 law was ineffective in providing legal backing for the Hisbah operation.

Mr Obasa was reinstated as speaker 49 days after he was removed from office by 36 lawmakers.

Justice Yetunde Pinheiro ordered that all members of the Assembly be joined as parties in the suit filed by Mr ...

Most Newspaper headlines today featured news of the crisis rocking the Lagos State Assembly.

The Lagos lawmakers reaffirmed their support for the current speaker, Mojisola Meranda.

The security details were controversially withdrawn on Thursday morning, hours before the ousted speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, returned to the assembly.

The visit was Mr Obasa’s first appearance at the complex since his colleagues removed him in January over alleged misconduct ...

The group’s report highlighted seven key recommendations, focusing on VAT, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), and the National Information ...

The house suspended the members since July last year.

The National Assembly has been hit by a gale of defections from opposition political parties to the ruling APC.

The security agency stated that failure to retract the report and publish an apology within 7 days will incur a ...

The House, at a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, called on the state’s Director of SSS to ...

The Lagos lawmakers also passed a vote on confidence on the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda.

Mr Obasa filed a suit filed against the Lagos Assembly and the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda.

Abdulsalami Abubakar, Nigeria’s military ruler between 1998 and 1999, said in spite of military interventions, democracy had come to stay ...

All the newspapers reported the standoff in the Lagos State House of Assembly following the insistence by Mudashiru Obasa that ...

Mr Obasa faulted his removal by lawmakers on Saturday at his residence in Ikeja.

Mr Obasa has represented Agege Constituency 1 in the Assembly since 2007 and has been the speaker since 2015.

Speaking shortly after signing the bill into law on Tuesday in Owerri, the governor pledged “full and faithful implementation” of ...

Valued at over N698.3 billion, the budget is the largest ever in the history of the state.

The lawmakers raised the money through a 50 per cent cut in their basic salaries.