LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of National Assembly on Monday waded into the controversy on the planned hike in electricity from July 1st, 2020 and succeeded in convincing the distribution companies to differ the plan till the first quarter of 2021. This was contained in a statement issued late Tuesday by the Special Adviser to…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Governors Forum has asked the National Assembly to step down the Infectious Disease Bill to allow for wider consultations with stakeholders. It also set up a three-member committee made up of governors Aminu Masari (Katsina), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto) and Simon Lalong (Plateau) to meet with the leadership of the National…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government must think creatively and come up with ways of stabilising the Nigerian economy in the face of the negative economic impact of the Covid-19, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said. The Speaker said the House had on Tuesday passed the Emergency Economic Stimulus…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A continental railway advocacy group, African Railway Roundtable has called on the new leadership of Nigerian National Assembly to immediately revive and accelerate the passage of the Nigerian railway law reform bill which seeks to amend the out dated 1955 law establishing and regulating the Nigerian Railway Corporation. The group which made…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has delivered a damning verdict on most of the Senators and House of Representatives members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over their roles in the election of National Assembly principal officers on Tuesday. Most of them, he said, betrayed the party…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The outgoing Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday reflected on his four-year tenure as the head of the nation’s legislature and urged his colleagues to be wary of the transient nature of power. He also reviewed the relationship between the executive and the legislature as well as his travails and concluded that…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has disowned the management of the National Assembly led by the Clerk, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, over the stringent conditions imposed on journalists seeking to cover the activities of the Ninth Assembly. Saraki, in a statement on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola,…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) is opposing the new guidelines for accreditation of media organisations and journalists covering the National Assembly (NASS). GOCOP, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Olumide Iyanda, describes the new guidelines which are due to be effected from June 11, 2019, when the ninth…
