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Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has assented the bill for a law to provide a map for the state and other matters connected therewith into law. The new law, which is titled the Akwa Ibom State Map Establishment Law 2023 was passed…

Salaries of all government appointees who were employed by the executive arm have been stopped by the Lagos State House of Assembly; also, their appointment letters have been withdrawn from them. This was made known during plenary…

Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, has commended the conduct of the governorship and state house of assembly elections, alluding to improvements from the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections. Speaking to…

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday postponed the Governorship and House of Assembly elections scheduled for March 11 to March 18. It was learnt that the postponement was due to the inability of the…

The court of appeal has refused to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from reconfiguring the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS) ahead of the governorship and state assembly elections. In the ruling…

The National Assembly (NASS) has revealed that the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution is bound to fail as the state Houses of Assembly have failed to vote on the amendment bills passed and transmitted to them for concurrence.…

Following misconduct and series of allegations levelled against him, the Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan has been removed by State House of Assembly. The removal of Olaniyan by members of the House of Assembly came up on…

Kano State House of Assembly Speaker, Abdulazeez Garba-Gafasa, and the Majority Leader, Kabiru Dashi, have resigned on Monday, December 14. The Speaker announced his resignation in a letter titled ‘Notification of Resignation’ dated…

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the ongoing probe by the National Assembly into loan agreements being entered into by the Federal Government with China may frustrate various rail projects in the country. The…

House of Representatives has insisted that the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, publishes the names of the members of the National Assembly who got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).…

Islamic scholars in Kano state, under the aegis of Council of Ulamas, have kicked against castration as punishment for rapists. The state House of Assembly had adopted the proposal for the castration of confirmed rapists, following a…

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has named some federal lawmakers who allegedly got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). According to Punch, the named lawmakers include the Chairman of the…

Ondo State House of Assembly has on Wednesday suspended two lawmakers for unruly behaviour. The affected lawmakers are the Deputy Speaker of the house, Iroju Ogundeji, and another member of the House, Adewale Williams. The two…