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Additional reports: Dare Olawin, Bankole Taiwo, Peter Dada, and Adeyinka Adedipe   The National Assembly and the 36 state assemblies of the federation as well as their agencies will spend about N724bn this year, an analysis of their 2024 budgets by The PUNCH has shown. Further findings also showed that the salaries and allowances for […]

The Senate may be set to recall Senator Abdul Ningi from his three-month suspension. The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, gave this indication while fielding questions from reporters on arrival from the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Ningi was suspended for three months after about three hours of debate over his interview where […]

The National Assembly, which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives, passed the student loan bill. The bill, which went through first, second, and third readings in both parliamentary sessions, became law on Wednesday. The Senate decision came after reviewing the report from the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND. The chairman of the […]