President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday present the 2019 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly.
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The Global Economic Policy Initiative, a policy group, has faulted Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives claim that the TraderMoni scheme is vote buying.
The hearing is being organised by the House ad hoc committee on under remittance of revenue, chaired by Rep. James Faleke (APC-Kogi).
Murtala, who is representing Matazu/Musawa Federal Constituency, announced his defection in a letter read by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on the floor of the House on Tuesday.
The aggrieved legislative aides have already forwarded a petition to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the development
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has distanced the electoral body from buying of votes from the electorate, revealing that politicians insert money in sandwich on election day to buy votes.
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Monday said vote buying is a threat to the nation’s democracy.
Fagbenro-Byron said this at a news conference in Lagos to announce his campaign and political agenda.
A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Gabriel Onyieawife, has defected from All Progressive Grand Alliance to the Peoples Democratic Party.
Four House of Representatives members on Thursday resigned their membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
The lawmakers also resolved that an education summit, organised by the House in conjunction with other stakeholders, should be held January 2019.
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Minister of Finance, Zanab Ahmed, to release all outstanding funds due the judiciary.
The lawmakers also called on Idris to withdraw his men from the complex for members to access their offices for legislative functions.
The lawmakers also demanded that the Nigerian Army should, after due consultations with families of soldiers killed in the November 18, insurgents’ attack in Metele village in Borno, release all their names.
Two members of All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives on Thursday resigned their membership from the ruling party.
The resolution was sequel to a motion by Hon. Raphael Igbokwe on the kidnap of four reverend sisters in Delta, at a plenary presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.
The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, discharged 16 committees from referrals on 25 bills pursuant to Order 17, Rule 3 (1) (g) of the Standing Orders of the Green Chamber.
Two All Progressive Congress members of the House of Representatives have resigned their membership of the ruling party with one defecting to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The resolution was sequel to a motion by Hon. Frederick Agbedi at the plenary presided over by Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to the Institute of Chartered Biochemist and Molecular Biologists of Nigeria Bill 2018, recently passed by the National Assembly.