I had wanted to write on the proposed 2025 federal budget when it was presented to the National Assembly for consideration late last year but other interests crept in. Immediately President Bola Tinubu sent a revised proposed budget to parliament increasing it from N49 trillion to N54 trillion, I knew it was time to visit the matter. President Tinubu’s first …

President Bola Tinubu has asked the National Assembly to increase the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, an increase of N4.5 trillion over that present the President last December. President Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on the floor of the red chamber on Wednesday. Last year, the Senate and …

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the National Assembly has been urged to expedite actions on electoral reforms, address the integrity crises rocking election conducting body, and implement the Justice Mohammed Uwais report. This development follows a recent investigative report published by the Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ), which exposed how thousands of altered voting tallies and mutilated figures …

In presenting the N49.7 trillion estimated expenditure for the 2025 fiscal year to the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu said that the budget projects that inflation would decline from the current rate of 34.6 per cent to 15 per cent next year, while the exchange rate would improve from approximately N1,700 per the United States …

Each session of Nigeria’s political class comes with its share of buffoonery and rabble rousing. It often looks trivial, innocuous or garbed with patriotic sentiments but totally superficial and sycophantic with a single objective – earning relevance and gaining from the system. That is what is playing out in the current National Assembly with the proposal by the House of …

The first year of the 10th National Assembly has witnessed a surge but slow pace of progression of sponsored bills, a significant number of which were proposals recycled from the preceding 9th assembly. These were highlights of the signature performance report card of the national assembly set for release this week by OrderPaper, Nigeria’s foremost parliamentary monitoring organisation and public …

To celebrate his first anniversary on Wednesday as the leader of Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu will address a joint session of the National Assembly, which has lined up a programme to commemorate 25 years of the nation’s democratic journey at both the executive and legislative levels. According to a statement on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. …

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu has disowned the new leadership of the National Assembly announced on Tuesday by the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas. Adamu, who labelled the report as a ‘rumour’ at a crucial meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) and APC …

Senator Godswill Akpabio, who represents Akwa Ibom North-West in the upper legislative chamber, is the President of the 10th Senate. Akpabio, former Minister of Niger Delta, polled 63 votes to defeat Senator Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara South, who scored 46 votes. The leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinabu had earlier endorsed Akpabio and Senator …

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has advised the lawmakers-elect to consider the stability of the nation over that of their pockets. At the Senate’s valedictory plenary on Saturday, Shettima, who represented Borno Central district in the upper chamber, appealed to the 10th National Assembly lawmakers to vote wisely on Tuesday, while electing their leaders. The battle for the Senate …