Tag: House of Representatives

Reps Appeals To Foreign Airlines As Trapped Aviation Fund Nears $500m

The Lower Chamber of the National Assembly has appealed to foreign airlines to make affordable airfare layers available to the Nigerian market, as it pledges to find a solution to…

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Buhari Set To Present N19.76trn 2023 Budget To National Assembly

A letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, stated that the president would present the sum of N19.76 trillion budget to the joint session of the National Assembly. The…

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I Don’t Care If Nigeria’s Next President, VP, Speaker Are Same Religion

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has given a reason why he cares less if Nigeria’s next president, vice-president, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are all from the same…

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NIMC must include NIN to national ID

The House of Representatives has called on the National Identity Management Commission to redesign the national identity card such that the National Identity Number of the bearer is written on…

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Northern Lawmakers Plan to Impeach Speaker

Northern lawmakers in the House of Representatives have allegedly concluded plans to impeach the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, should he fail to support the controversial Water Resources Bill during its second…

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CURIOUS RETURN OF WATERWAYS BILL

The reintroduction of the bill raises reasonable concerns The return to the National Assembly of the executive bill seeking to take over the control and ownership of various waterways in…

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BIG STORY: Reps Uncover Clauses Conceding Nigeria’s Sovereignty To China

The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised alarm over lethal clauses in Article 8(1) of the commercial loan agreement signed between Nigeria and Export-Import Bank of China which allegedly “wills…

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Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria stages a Walk-out on Reps

A drama played out at the venue of a meeting called by the House of Representatives on Thursday when the Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Houssam Diab, staged a walk-out.…

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Femi Gbajabiamila: Federal Government had made huge investments in the power sector with little to show for it.

The House of Representatives has decried the perennial crisis in Nigeria’s power sector. They, at the beginning of a two-day investigative hearing on the Nigerian Power Sector in Abuja on…

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Reps Fault Suspension of NSITF Executives, Others

The House of Representatives at the plenary yesterday faulted the suspension of the top management and executive committee members of the Nigeria Social insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) by the Minister…

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