This was sequel to a motion by Hon. Adamu Chika “on the need to carry out the investigation, to ensure accountability and efficiency of the programme”.
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President Muhammadu Buhari had withheld assent to both bills recently and the House promised to re-gazette them with 18 others.
It will also consider an appropriate scheme to support families of senators who die in active service.
Dogara said the 2018 Budget will be laid before both chambers on April 19
The House committee on Nigeria–Saudi Arabia Parliamentary Friendship and Hajj affairs, while deliberating on the 2017 hajj report, said NAHCON made commendable efforts to stop exportation of prohibited items by pilgrims during the 2017 Hajj.
Members of the House called for sober reflections as they paid tributes to the late senator, who had been buried according to Islamic rites.
Buhari had withheld his assent to a bill seeking to amend the act after it was passed by both chambers of the National Assembly.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting, which was at the instance of the leadership of the National Assembly, was coming barely 48 hours after the President’s rejection of the Amended Electoral Act Bill sent for his signature by the Assembly
Some senators who are loyal to the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had planned to override President Buhari on the bill.
The conference was called as a result of the cancellation of a public hearing
The House had called for the public hearing based on the decision of the NLS to prevent Firdaus Amasa from graduating based on her insistence on using hijab during the call to bar
Dogara gave the assurance when he received a delegation from Kpankpando Foundation for Persons Living with Disabilities in his office on Wednesday in Abuja
Jibrin, who was suspended since September 28, 2016 for a period of 181 days, was recalled to the House on Tuesday following an announcement by Speaker Yakubu Dogara that the lawmaker had apologized to the House
If anything, this is a civil-cum-political issue, and, as a newspaper, we have bent over backward by carrying out the necessary retraction and publishing the disclaimers by the government of Jigawa State
The SDP, through its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Alfa Mohammed, called on Nigerians to be unanimous in sending the ruling party out of Aso Rock.
The decampees, from Yewa North and Imeko Afon Federal Constituency, who were loyal to the PDP faction of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, were received by Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Abeokuta on Thursday
The Minister, who addressed journalists in Abuja on Thursday, said both the Ministry and the National Assembly had been on the same page regarding the need to concession the Steel Complex
The Eagle Online gathered that work was concluded on the Bill on Monday night by the Conference Committee of both the Senate and House of Representatives
The Secretary said on Sunday in an interview with journalists in Minna, Niger State that over 50 Civil Society Organisations have also embraced the party in a coalition movement to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2019
The party made the commendation in a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja.