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UMORU ABDULKADIR Ahead of its next meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) scheduled for next week, the Central Bank of Nigeria has been urged to review downward,  its Monetary Policy Rates (MPR) by putting…

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed three bills sponsored by the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, one of which seeks to criminalise estimated billing of electricity consumers by distribution companies. When the proposed law is…

Heads of security agencies are currently appearing before the House of Representatives to discuss the spate of insecurity in Nigeria. The service chiefs, who failed to appear before the House on Friday, are now at the meeting. The…

The House of Representatives, holding a public hearing on allegation of abuse, breach and violation of the Public Procurement Act 2007 by the National Pension Commission in its procurement activities covering October 2014 to March 2017, has…

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on the new minimum wage on Monday commenced a public hearing on the most anticipated amendment bill. The ad-hoc committee headed by the deputy speaker, Yusuf Lasun, is currently sitting at a…

Amidst controversies that led to the blockade of the entrance of the National Assembly by the police, members of the House of Representatives have moved to admit the president, Muhammadu Buhari, and his entourage on Wednesday to present the…

The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation has warned it may block the budgets of agencies under it over the failure of their heads to turn up for a budget defence meeting with the committee. The committee Chairman, Nkiru…

The House of Representatives has discharged some of its committees of 28 bills pursuant to Order 17, Rule 3 (g) of the Standing Orders of the House. The bills were read a second time separately between 2016 and 2018 and referred to…

The House of Representatives has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, to release the funds appropriated for the judiciary in the 2018 Appropriation Act. At the plenary on Tuesday, the House…

The House of Representatives has accused Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of illegally approving the release of the sum of N5, 865, 671, 939.26 in June 2017 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund Account to the National Emergency Management Agency…