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$300m Malaria Fund Probe: Nigerian lawmakers say health ministry officials are lobbying them, summon minister

Nigeria, March 20 -- The House of Representatives Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control has summoned the Minister of Health and Social Development, Muhammed Pate over the alleged mis... Read More


Tinubu moves to increase salaries of judicial officers, sends bill to Reps

Nigeria, March 20 -- President Bola Tinubu has sent a bill seeking to amend the salaries of judicial officers to the House of Representatives for consideration. This was contained in a correspondence... Read More


Bill seeking leave period for widows, widowers scales second reading at House of Reps

Nigeria, March 19 -- The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to allow widows and widowers to take leave with full pay to mourn deceased spouses. The bill, sponsored... Read More


Give me power to spend security votes like governors, Wike lobbies lawmakers

Nigeria, March 18 -- The Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, has asked the House of Representatives to grant him the power to arbitrarily spend funds under the controversial "security vote" scheme. Mr Wike... Read More


How Nigerian lawmakers padded 2024 budget with over N53 billion vague projects

Nigeria, March 17 -- The claim by a senator, Abdul Ningi, that over N53 billion worth of projects in the 2024 Appropriations Act are without a specific location, is true, a check by PREMIUM TIMES has ... Read More


Alleged Budget Padding: Minister speaks on "insertion" of projects into 2024 budget

Nigeria, March 16 -- The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu, has said the National Assembly is empowered by the Constitution to make input into the budget proposal by the executive... Read More


Cement Price: Nigerian lawmakers summon Dangote, BUA, others

Nigeria, March 13 -- The House of Representatives has summoned the major cement manufacturers over the spike in the price of the product in the country. The summon followed a motion jointly moved by ... Read More


Betta Edu: Reps urge Tinubu to speed up probe of suspended minister

Nigeria, March 13 -- The House of Representatives has urged President Bola Tinubu to expedite the investigation of the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu. This resolution was a seq... Read More


Lawmaker canvasses N100,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers

Nigeria, March 13 -- The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers), says anything less than N100,000 as minimum wage for Nigerian workers is unacceptable. He urge... Read More


ROUNDUP: Confusing positions on Binance, power outage, budget review, top stories from House of Reps last week

Nigeria, March 11 -- The Tinubu administration's position on the digital currency world has been "confusing", starting with the lifting of the ban imposed by the former administration and now back to ... Read More