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The National Assembly (NASS) has transmitted the re-amended Electoral Act Amendment Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on NASS Matters in the Senate, Babajide Omoworare, who disclosed this in a statement explained that the transmission of the bill was in line with the provisions of Section 58 of the 1999 Constitution and the Acts Authentication Act Cap. Omoworare stated that the Clerk […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has urged the Federal Government to increase the budgetary allocation for the health sector from the present 5% in the 2022 budget to a figure closer to 15% as recommended at the 2001 Abuja declaration for health financing in Africa. The doctors made the appeal in a communique issued yesterday following their National Executive Council(NEC) meeting tagged ABUJA 2022 WITH THE THEME, CHANGING […]

The House of Representatives yesterday condemned the resurgence of coups in Burkina Faso and other West African countries, saying it portrays great dangers to democratic values in the region.This is sequel to an urgent motion by a member of the house, Julius Ihonvbere, with the title, Need to Condemn Increasing Resort To Military Coups In the West African Sub-region. Ihonvbere lamented that there had been at least four coups in […]

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has tasked the paramilitary agencies to stalk fuel smuggling out of Nigeria, saying that the trend was an economic sabotage against the nation. LAWAN who spoke yesterday at a meeting with heads of paramilitary agencies, said it’s important that the current administration looked for a way forward in the management and administration of fuel subsidies in Nigeria. The senate president said he convened the meeting to […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has asked the federal government to re-engage the organized labour in discussions in order to find mutually acceptable solutions to the current dilemma in Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sub-sector. Recall that the Federal government yesterday suspended the removal of fuel subsidy due to perceived difficulties associated with it.In reaction, NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, in a letter addressed to state governors and jointly signed by the General […]