Tag: NASS Members
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NASS needs well informed people as members – PDP senatorial candidate
Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN) Ondo State Central Senatorial Candidate of the PDP, says there is a need to vote for well-informed people as members of Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) in 2023. The senior advocate of Nigeria said that legislation would favour Nigerians more if society began to ask questions about the quality of representation they…
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NASS members insist on direct primaries as Osinbajo-led APC committee fails to convince lawmakers
An enlarged Tripartite Committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve differences within the All Progressives Congress (APC)
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Buhari’s ministers, ‘high profile’ NASS members behind delay in NDDC board formation – IYC
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has accused ministers and “high profile” members of the National Assembly from Niger Delta of causing the delay in the constitution of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The IYC alleged that the “ministers and National Assembly members of Niger Delta extraction were bent on…
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Electoral Act: Saraki Appeals to NASS Members on Direct Primaries
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has sent a passionate appeal to members of the National Assembly who are
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Three per cent in PIA: Senate President speaks on alleged $10m bribe received by NASS members
President of the Senate Ahmed Lawan has debunked reports suggesting that members of the National Assembly were bribed to the tune of $10 million to pass the three per cent allocation to host communities as stipulated in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). Lawan told State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on…
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SERAP drags Buhari, Osinbajo, 36 governors, NASS members to court; seeks slashing of jumbo pay allowances
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja “to order the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to perform their statutory functions to review downward the remuneration and allowances of President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, 36 governors and…
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Salaries of NASS members must reflect economic realities, Court rules
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to fix the salaries and allowances of the 469 members of the National Assembly, to reflect the economic realities in the country. The court on Friday also ruled that the National Assembly Service Commission has no power to…
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Pondei lists NDDC contracts paid under ‘duress’ before NASS members harmonized commission’s 2019 budget
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei has listed some of the contracts the Commission was allegedly coerced to pay by the National Assembly before its 2019 annual budget could be harmonized. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the commission had promised on Friday to release fresh lists of…
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774,000 jobs: NASS members, Keyamo in rowdy meeting [Photo]
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo was on Tuesday in a stormy session with a joint committee meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives. The lawmakers had invited Keyamo to give details of the Special Public Works Programme where 774,000 people would be recruited by the Federal Government under the…
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NASS members resume on Thursday to consider revised 2020 budget
The National Assembly members will tomorrow (Thursday) resume from their Eid-el-Fitri break to consider President Muhammadu Buhari’s Appropriation (Amendment) Bill 2020. Both Chambers of the National Assembly had on May 20 adjourned plenary till 2 June 2020. But on Tuesday, the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, in a statement in Abuja, said all…