Onuesoke Advises NASS To Facilitate State Police Bill
Onuesoke LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Delta State governorship aspirant has appealed to members of the National Assembly to facilitate the passage of state More...
Stolen Mace: National Assembly Panel Invites Ndume, Omo-Agege
LAGOS MAY 15th (URHOBOTODAY)- The joint Senate and House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the invasion of the Senate’s chamber and the snatching of its mace has invited senators Ovie Omo-Agege More...
JUST IN: Police Arrest Omo-Agege Over Stolen Mace
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The police on Wednesday arrested Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. The senator was arrested in the Senate Wing of the National Assembly at 1:57pm. This was after hoodlums he allegedly led into More...
2019: Ned Nwoko Declares Intention To Re-Position Delta North In Senate
Ned Nwoko LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTOAY)- As the 2019 general election is fast approaching, one time member of the National Assembly, Prince Chinedu Mumir Nwoko, popularly known as “Ned Nwoko”, has declared More...
Legislative Aide to Deputy Speaker of House of Rep Dies in National Assembly
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Senior Legislative Assistant with the National Assembly, Mr Abubakar Doki on Monday collapsed and died in the National Assembly premises. The deceased who was said to be in his More...
Buhari May Sign 2016 Budget Today as National Assembly Returns Budget to Presidency
Buhari LAGOS MAY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari may assent to the 2016 Appropriation Bill on Wednesday (today)? if his Ministers are able to conclude work on the adjusted More...
Saraki, Other Senators Avoid Main NASS Gate As #OccupyNASS Protests Continue
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Report has it that the Senate President Bukola Saraki, for fear of being mobbed by angry protesters outside the main gate of the National Assembly, abandoned his plans to enter More...
Report of National Assembly Interactive Session with Civil Society on 2016 Budget
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was indeed a great session, first of its kind, and a great demonstration of inclusivity and participatory governance in Nigeria by the National Assembly. It is truism that the More...
Despite Cash Crunch, Nigerian Senate Illegally Buying N4.7bn Exotic Cars for Saraki, Other
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Senate is currently on the verge of illegally buying various brands of exotic vehicles for use by its President, Bukola Saraki, and the 108 other senators, PREMIUM More...
Cash Crunch Hits Nigerian Senators, Reps
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian Senators and Members of House of Representatives have been hit by biting liquidity crisis as legislative business comes to a stand still, Elombah.com investigations have More...
Federal Auditor-General Decries NDDC Delay in Response to N183.7bn indictment
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Office of Auditor General of the Federation has condemned Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) delay in responding to its alleged mismanagement of N183.. A statement released More...
N184bn Missing in NDDC Account Within Four Years
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr Samuel Ukura, has said N183.7 billion could not be accounted for by auditors who conducted a special check on the Niger Delta Development More...
APC Board of Trustees Chair: Adamawa Think Tank Prefers Atiku to Tinubu
Atiku Abubakar LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As the governing All Progressives Congress gets set to appoint a chairman for its Board of Trustees, a group with ties to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called More...
Central Bank of Nigeria, a Monster House of Corruption
By Femi Ayeni LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] under the leadership of Godwin Emefiele last week disclosed that it spent over 290billion Naira for its over heads, salaries, traveling, More...
Constitution Amendment: Senate Suspends Move to Override Jonathan
LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The senate on Tuesday rose from about two-hour executive session on Wednesday and announced the suspension of its planned process to override President Goodluck Jonathan’s veto on More...
NASS Crisis: Tambuwal Drags Police IG to Court
Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to commit to jail, More...
Senate Passes Late Ewherido’s Bill On Corporate Manslaughter
Late Senator Pius Ewherido LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The Senate on Tuesday posthumously honoured its fallen colleague, Senator Pius Ewherido, when it passed a bill on corporate manslaughter, which was More...
Lawmakers, workers Flee over Bomb Scare at National Assembly
Lawmakers,workers fleeing from premises of National Assembly over news of bomb scare LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Legislators and civil servants on Tuesday afternoon vacated the National Assembly Complex in Abuja More...
G8 Clears Coast for Uduaghan’s Senatorial Dream
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS MARCH 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Things have started working for good for the senatorial ambition of the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. Eight Local Government More...
Sanusi Remains CBN Governor-President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan (l) and Sanusi Lamido LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday evening finally opened up on the reasons for the suspension of Governor of Central Bank of More...
Northern Elders in Disarray over Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-NORTHERN opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition was yesterday fragmented with the emergence of a new group of elders supportive More...
NASS Set to Approve Petroleum Industry Bill
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream oil sector) on Wednesday said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed soon by the National More...
52 Senators Object To Attempt To Declare Seats of Defectors Vacant
Senate President, David Mark LAGOS 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Fifty-two members of the Nigeria Senate, nearly half of its membership of 109, have written to the leadership of the National Assembly to express their objection More...
2015: Finally, Uduaghan Declares for Senatorial Seat, Refutes Allegation of Defection
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Delta South Senatorial district election in 2015. Uduaghan More...
Defection: Jonathan Begs Mark to Appease Senators, Reps as Tambuwal, Saraki Insist on Defecting
Senate President, David Mark(Left) and President Goodluck Jonthan LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Report obtained from NATIONAL MIRROR has it that there are strong indications have emerged that The Presidency has More...
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