Due to unpaid allowance by the management of the National Assembly, Legislative Aides to legislators on Tuesday threatened to shut down the lawmaking building unless their outstanding N5.8billion paid before the 25th September, 2018 resumption .
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He stated this after submitting a petition to the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in Abuja on Tuesday.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Buhari’s veto did not come as a surprise since his commitment to a free and fair 2019 election was mere lip service.
Senator Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, 7,000 Nigerian youths are currently contributing N1,000 each to buy the nomination form for former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, to contest for Abia North Senatorial District seat.
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif, made this known at the committee meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to have a rethink on his decision not to give his assent to the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, made the fact known to State House correspondents in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif, had told newsmen after a closed door meeting on Tuesday that the Joint Panel had established a subcommittee that will look into the INEC budget for 2019 elections and meet today (Wednesday).
The Electoral Body complied with the directive of the Committee to submit the budget of N143 billion for consideration.
There have been calls on the president to sign the bill to avoid altering of arrangements for the 2019 elections.
Ozo-Esan gave this assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
National Assembly Joint Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission has recommended N143 billion for approval for the commission’s preparation for the 2019 general elections.
The panel was preparing to address the press when The Eagle Online went to the press
Lecky disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Auchi, in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo, on Monday.
A Chartered Accountant and former Special Adviser to the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Makinde Araoye, has declared his intention to contest the Ekiti South Federal Constituency 1 seat in the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.
The Peoples Movement for a New Nigeria has called for inclusion of Diaspora voting in the 2018 Supplementary Budget for the 2019 general elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari could not have submitted the budget for the 2019 elections earlier than he did because of special circumstances surrounding the request.
Enang made the call in Abuja while addressing some civil society members who were on advocacy visit to his office for speedy passage of bills.
A federal lawmaker, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has called for probe into budgetary allocations to the National Assembly.