LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Drama played out on Tuesday as some senators walked the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, out of a meeting. The lawmakers had invited Keyamo to give details of the Special Public Works Programme where 774,000 people would be recruited by the Federal Government under the National Directorate…
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 APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the National Assembly yesterday faulted the implementation of the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme and called for an enabling legislation in line with global best practices. Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila made their reservations about the scheme at a meeting with the Minister…
LAGOS JANUARY 2TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has filed a suit before a Federal High Court, Abuja praying for the disbandment of Christian and Muslim commissions in Nigeria and declaring them illegal. The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ is between Omirhobo and five defendants.The plaintiff is calling for the interpretation and/or…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar has stormed the national assembly today to add his voice to an important discuss during at a public hearing. According to Punch, he is at the Senate as one of the stakeholders at a public hearing on a bill for the conversion of the Modibbo Adama University of Technology to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first joint session of the National Assembly is underway for the presentation of the 2020 Appropriation Bill. President Muhammau Buhari has arrived the National Assembly Complex. Welcome to our live update. 14:55pm: President Buhari says the goal is for the 2020 Appropriation Act to come into effect on January 1, 2020….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government will propose to the National Assembly about N9.79 trillion as total expenditure in the 2020 budget, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Mrs Ahmed announced this on Tuesday in Abuja at a public consultation forum with civil society groups and agencies on the…