The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the election slated for August 16 in 12 states, is to fill legislative vacant seats due to the deaths or resignations of lawmakers who left office to contest for executive positions.
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The Senator made the remark on Sunday as she flagged off the construction of smart markets in Okene and Okehi Local Government Areas, a project designed to uplift local traders, particularly women, and strengthen grassroots economic development.
The National Assembly has however challenged all stakeholders with special requests to engage and lobby their state assemblies, noting that the National Assembly “cannot successfully review the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) without their approval.
Sani also advocated for a review of the section of the constitution that empowers the president to appoint the Inspector-General of Police.
The former president and then vice president to Yar’Adua revealed this in an interview he granted Rainbow Book Club, which was trending on Saturday.
The bill to extend the budget to the end of the year was presented to both chambers on Tuesday for consideration during their various plenary sessions.
Its success is not automatic, but depends largely on the people to provide much-needed support that the National Assembly requires to carry out the task.
Oshiomhole, who spoke during a live programme on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ on Sunday, dismissed the label as not only unfair but also a misrepresentation of the role of legislators in a democracy.
This followed the invitation by the National Assembly to President Tinubu to address a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, made this disclosure while responding to questions on the upcoming June 12 anniversary.
Bamidele, currently representing Ekiti Central, said if the National Assembly was actually a rubber-stamp, it could not have held over 39 meetings with the executive arm to trash out all grey areas in the Tax Reform Bills, 2024 before they were eventually passed.
The endorsement was moved by Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate, and seconded by Hon. Tajudeen Abass, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In the letter, President Tinubu explained that the proposed budget will be used by the Emergency Rule Government of Rivers State to provide for education, agriculture, provision of free drugs, and others.
Their demand was made known at a stakeholder engagement session on the review of the Pension Reform Act, 2014, organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Pensions in Abuja.
The residents made their feelings on the passage of the bill known in different interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Makurdi.
NANS, in a statement on Friday, equally urged him to probe the alleged sale of the mini buses by individuals tasked to distribute them to the schools.
Alausa made this position known in a memorandum presented at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Polytechnics and Higher Technical Education on Thursday in Abuja.
The representative of Ekiti Central Senatorial District said President Bola Tinubu did not coerce members of the opposition political parties to join the APC.
There is no public evidence that the NJC, chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice, recommended any successor to Umar.
This exposed the shoddy supervisory job by the Federal Capital Development Authority in the renovation project of the National Assembly