President Bola Tinubu has again written to the National Assembly, seeking approval for a fresh external borrowing of $2.3bn. This is in addition to a plan to issue a $500m sovereign Sukuk, which will mark Nigeria’s debut in the international Islamic finance market. The request, contained in a letter read on the floor of the…
Workers of the National Assembly Service Commission have called for their re-enrolment into the Contributory Pension Scheme, two years after a law removed them from the scheme. Their demand was made known on Tuesday at a stakeholder engagement session on the review of the Pension Reform Act 2014, organised by the House of Representatives Committee…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, along with his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, and other opposition leaders, have called on the National Assembly to oppose President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. Atiku, speaking on behalf of the opposition leaders at a press conference…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr Saviour Enyiekere as the Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission for a five-year renewable term. The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this known in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. According to the statement, Enyiekere, until his…
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Finance has exonerated the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board of alleged misappropriation of funds in its 2024 budget implementation. The chairman of the committee, Senator Sani Musa, in a statement today, said the board was erroneously accused of reckless spending, given the documents submitted to the committee by JAMB….