National Assembly
1 Dec
Another year around the sun is always something to celebrate. When an outstanding personality, a star, completes this existential and transcendental course, there is even more reason to roll out the drums in festivity.
30 Nov
The 2024 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly drew praise and condemnation from a section of Nigerians, yesterday.
30 Nov
Digital technologies enable new solutions to several social and economic challenges. They are therefore a powerful force that can transform societies and economies.
29 Nov
President Bola Tinubu has presented Budget of Renewed Hope of N27.5tr for the 2024 fiscal year with Nigeria's national defence and internal security, local job creation, macro-economic stability and investment environment optimization. Other areas of priority he listed include human capital development, poverty reduction, and social security while addressing a joint session of the National…
28 Nov
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), yesterday, approved a total expenditure of N27.5 trillion for next year, endorsing the continuation of spurious appropriation benchmarks and unambitious public spending.
28 Nov
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, has called on the National Assembly to amend laws and allow termination of most appeals at intermediary courts, to reduce burden on the Supreme Court.
26 Nov
If what is being reintroduced as social media regulation bill in the National Assembly is a replica of some proposed legislations on the same subject matter that had earlier been thrown out by the legislature, it should be rejected and condemned because, if passed, it would be antithetical to the rule of law, violate the…
22 Nov
Woes of the justice delivery system in Nigeria have been further compounded by the number of cases pending before already overwhelmed judges, who may have abandoned them for political matters.
21 Nov
The Senate president, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has pledged firm legislative provisions to root out alleged corruption and breaches of integrity in the Nigerian justice sector.
20 Nov
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed March 13, 2024, to hear a suit filed in 2008, by the Attorney General of Lagos State against the Federal Government in respect of who controls and regulates the gaming and lottery sector.
16 Nov
The Save Nigeria Movement (SNM) has faulted the continued stay of the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Sani Magaji Tambuwal as a clear breach of extant provision of the law.
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