Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the minister of finance has presented the 2015 budget estimates of about N4.3trillion to the National Assembly. Okonjo-Iweala, who laid the document in separate appearances before the Senate and the House of Representatives, did not make any speeches while presenting the budget. Bright Okogwu, the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation and some…
Chaos As Tambuwal Is Denied Access To National Assembly Complex
There is chaos in the National Assembly complex as Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of the House of Representatives and other members of the House were on Thursday denied access to the assembly complex by security officials. TELL learnt that attempts by Tambuwal to access the National Assembly complex were met with teargas canisters fired by the…
Senate to Reduce FG’s Control over Labour
The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on Wednesday, moved for the enactment of a law that would establish three major institutions, aimed at whittling down the involvement of the Federal government in labour related issues. The bill, which went through the second reading on Tuesday is titled, “A bill for an Act to establish…
Victims Seek Life Imprisonment For Rapists
Rape victims on Thursday besieged the National Assembly, demanding that bills that seek to protect women and children against violence are passed before the end of the current legislative session. The protesters, mostly young ladies, who shared their agonizing rape experiences, had female federal lawmakers almost in tears as they listened to them. A bill,…
Senate Promises To Pass 2015 Appropriation Bill This Year
The National Assembly has given the assurance that it will pass the 2015 Appropriation Bill into law before the end of 2014 even as it awaits the Bill from President Goodluck Jonathan. This was disclosed on Tuesday by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President, who presided over plenary session after the Sallahbreak. He announced that…
Group Urges National Assembly to Probe $9.3m Arms Deal
The Stop Impunity in Nigeria, SIN, Campaign, an organization that raises public awareness inorder to end impunity in Nigeria, has called on members of the National Assembly to put aside partisan political considerations and differences and act in the interest of the nation by thoroughly investigating the $9.3 million cash seized by the South African…
Bomb Scare at the National Assembly
Personnel of the State Security Service, SSS are currently scanning for bomb in the National Assembly complex, Abuja, the federal capital territory, FCT. Security agents had asked lawmakers and other staff in the complex to vacate the arena latest by 2.pm following reports that an explosive material was planted in the building. TELL…
SENATE PASSES N4.695 TRILLION 2014 BUDGET
The Senate on Wednesday passed N4.695 trillion as the 2014 national budget. The budget is N52.2bn more than the N4.642 trillion submitted by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly on December 19, 2013, through the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Main points of the 2014 budget approved…
Budget on the Altar of Politics
Despite public outcry on the need to cut the cost of governance, the executive and the legislature continue to encourage corruption through padding of national budgets It is not so difficult to see that the split in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the gale of defections in the National Assembly, NASS, are the…
Endless Wait for 2014 Budget
Threats to block executive bills, including the 2014 budget, by members of the opposition All Progressives Congress in the National Assembly may further worsen the economy A recent report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, estimates that 54 per cent of Nigerian youths are currently unemployed, while the rate of unemployment keeps rising, from…
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