Tax Disputes, Electoral Reforms, Budget Defence Loom as Lawmakers Resume THE National Assembly will today resume plenary sessions after its Christmas and New Year recess, setting the stage for renewed legislative action on several unresolved national issues. Both chambers suspended sittings on 23 December 2025, and are expected to briefly reconvene before adjourning in honour […]
By NJORIGE LYNUS Tinubu’s Fiscal Overhaul Raises Questions Over 2026 Budget Viability FRESH concerns have emerged over Nigeria’s 2026 budget following President Bola Tinubu’s push to repeal and re-enact the 2024 and 2025 Appropriation Acts under a single ₦43.56 trillion spending framework. The proposal, now before the National Assembly, is aimed at curbing the long-standing […]
By TOSAN OYAKHILOME-AKAHOMEN THE House of Representatives has called on the Federal Government to publicly identify, sanction and prosecute all individuals and entities financing terrorism and banditry, insisting that transparency is essential to ending spiralling insecurity across Nigeria. The demand formed part of the House’s resolutions on national security reform following its three-day special plenary […]
By IFEOMA IZUCHUKWU THE House of Representatives will on Wednesday begin debate on a comprehensive set of constitution amendment bills as part of the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution. Deputy Speaker Benjamin Okezie Kalu, who also chairs the House Committee on Constitution Review, announced that deliberations will continue through Thursday, with voting scheduled for […]
By IFEOMA IZUCHUKWU NIGERIA’S deepening security crisis has reached a breaking point, igniting an unusual rebellion within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and exposing widening cracks in the country’s political and security frameworks. Amid fresh waves of kidnappings across Kwara, Kano and Niger states, an emboldened House of Representatives confronted the Tinubu administration with […]
By NJORIGE LYNUS THE South-East Caucus in the House of Representatives has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to grant a presidential pardon to Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), warning that his continued detention is deepening tension across the region. Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment last Thursday […]
By TOSAN OYAKHILOME-AKAHOMEN THE House of Representatives has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Ministry of Finance to disclose details of all federal financial interventions to states since 2023, excluding FAAC allocations. The resolution followed a motion by Rep. Abdussamad Dasuki (PDP–Sokoto), who said multiple support schemes—such as budget aids, infrastructure funds, and […]
SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has sounded the alarm over Nigeria’s growing debt burden, warning that the nation has exceeded its statutory debt limit, endangering long-term fiscal stability. Speaking on Monday at the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC) in Abuja, Abbas […]