LAWMAKERS in Nigeria's House of Representatives have just passed an anti-medical tourism bill that will punish public office holders who seek medical treatment abroad with a seven year jail term or a N500m ($1.2m) fine.
Narrowly passing a second reading on the floor of the House today, the motion titled A Bill for an Act to...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's House of Representatives have launched an investigation into how 178,459 arms belonging to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have gone missing from government arsenals and armouries.
In 2019, a report by the auditor-general for the federation, showed that the arms and ammunition went missing from NPF...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly asking for its permission to borrow an extra $6.1bn from bilateral and multilateral financial organisations to fund the deficit in Nigeria's 2021 budget.
Although spared the worst health excesses of the Covid-19 virus, Nigeria has been hit hard by the economic...
DEPUTY speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives Hon Idris Wase has lashed out at senate minority leader Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe saying he should be in detention over his failure to produce Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu who he stood bail for.
Back in September 2017, Mr Kanu broke bail and...
MEMBERS of the Plateau State caucus in the Federal House of Representatives have passed a vote of confidence in deputy speaker Hon Idris Wase despite calls for his removal after he insulted Nigerian diasporans by saying that have no business in the affairs of the country.
On March 10, Hon Mark Gbillah, the lawmaker...
NIGERIA'S House of Representatives has tendered an apology to the country's 15m strong diaspora for rejecting a recent petition by the Mutual Union of Tivs in America (Muta) after its deputy speaker Hon Idris Wase said diasporans should have no say in running Nigeria.
On March 10, Hon Mark Gbillah, the lawmaker representing...
NIGERIANS living in the diaspora have been told by the deputy speaker of the Federal House of Representatives Hon Idris Wase to stop sending petitions to the National Assembly on issues happening within the country because they are not affected by any of it.
As the security situation in the country has deteriorated over...
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