President Bola Tinubu has signed into law the N54.99 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill. Tinubu signed the budget in the presence of principal officers of the National Assembly and other top government officials in a small ceremony in his office at the State House, Abuja, on Friday. The bill was passed by the two Chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday, …

President Bola Tinubu has signed a bill establishing the North-Central Development Commission, NCDC into law. This was announced on Tuesday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio during a session in the Senate chamber. He expressed optimism that the establishment of NCDC would bring development to the grassroots. He said: ‘Let me also inform my colleagues that Mr President has also assented …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended Law admission in eight universities for the 2025/2026 academic session. This followed the suspension of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programme in the affected institutions by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) for violating regulatory procedures. Spokesperson of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the affected institutions are Kwara State University, Malete, …

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has signed the state’s 2025 appropriation bill into law. It is valued at about N615.8 billion. The governor assented to the bill on Monday during a brief ceremony at the Council Chamber of Government House in Maiduguri, the state capital. While assenting to the budget named ‘Budget of Recovery and Continuity’, Zulum promised to …

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the state’s 2025 budget worth N1.1 trillion into law. The budget, christened ‘Budget of Inclusive Growth and Development,’ was presented before the Victor Oko-Jumbo-led State House of Assembly on 30 December, 2024. This was disclosed by the governor via his X handle on Thursday. Fubara appreciated the lawmakers for their unwavering commitment to …

The Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed the Lagos Electricity Bill 2024 into law. The law is a comprehensive plan aimed at addressing challenges in the energy sector and is expected to lay the foundation for economic and industrial growth in Lagos. The governor signed the bill on Tuesday at the Lagos House, Ikeja. “The bill is a major …

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, signed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024, into law. This comes after separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). At the brief ceremony, President Tinubu said that the main …

President Bola Tinubu has signed the N28.7 trillion 2024 Appropriation Bill into law, keeping with his avowed commitment to maintain a timeous, predictable, and efficient budget cycle. Shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos on Monday from a week-long holiday, the President assented to the Appropriation Bill at a brief ceremony at the Presidential Villa. Present at the ceremony were …

The Executive Governor of Taraba State, Lt. Colonel Agbu Kefas (rtd.) has signed into law the supplementary budget of over N206 billion. This, as observed by our reporter, came a few hours after the supplementary budget was unanimously passed into law by members of the state House of Assembly. Signing the bill into law today, he promised to judiciously use …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday assented to eight Bills passed by the ninth National Assembly. In a statement in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare said the President’s action was in accordance with the provisions of the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. He …