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A cross-party coalition of lawmakers wants Nigeria’s parliament recalled immediately to address an alleged ₦8.83 trillion off-budget spend. The group, calling itself the Save Nigeria Group, sent its demand directly to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Official silence on such massive unauthorised spending threatens to gut democratic accountability entirely. Federal coffers…
Nigeria has taken its most decisive step yet toward breaking the federal monopoly on policing. The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Executive Bill seeking to establish state police forces nationwide. Lawmakers withdrew their own earlier constitutional amendment proposal during plenary to adopt President Bola Tinubu’s executive version instead. The legislative breakthrough follows the…
A parliamentary committee has issued a strict 48-hour ultimatum to federal ministries, departments, and agencies stalling its investigation into a phantom government body. The House Ad-hoc Committee investigating the illicit creation and operational history of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council declared Thursday as the final deadline for recalcitrant civil servants. Committee Chairman Yusuf Gagdi…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
A prominent rights group has urged the National Assembly to withdraw a controversial draft data protection law immediately. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project described the proposed legislation as a deceptive backdoor attempt to regulate social media networks. The organisation warned that the bill grants state regulators sweeping powers to censor online expression and shut…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has drawn a sharp line under a legislative delay that has quietly stretched into its fifth month, giving President Bola Tinubu seven days to either sign the Federal Audit Service Bill into law, formally tell the National Assembly why he is withholding assent, or step down from office. The…
Pressure over the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) has continued to mount inside the National Assembly, with the House of Representatives and the Senate charting opposite courses on how to confront a scandal that has already unsettled the Presidency and drawn President Bola Tinubu into issuing a 30-day investigative order. At plenary…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has allowed almost five months to pass without acting on the Federal Audit Service Bill, one of the most consequential public finance reforms to reach his desk in years, leaving the legislation stranded between passage and law and reviving old doubts about the depth of official commitment to accountability. The…
The Senate has moved to calm one of the most persistent fears surrounding Nigeria’s proposed shift to decentralised policing, insisting that the new legal framework gives the federal police clear grounds to step in wherever a state police outfit is turned into a weapon of electoral intimidation or presides over a collapse of public…
The ruling All Progressives Congress has tightened its hold on Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber, pushing its strength to 88 senators after four lawmakers elected in the June by-elections took their oaths of office, a development that leaves the opposition with its slimmest presence since the 10th Senate was constituted. The four were sworn in…
