Senate sets up 19-Member Ad-hoc Committee to Oversee Rivers Emergency Rule
Senate has constituted an 18-member committee to oversee the activities of the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas. Announcing this at yesterday’s plenary, President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, named Senator Opeyemi Bamidele as Chairman of the Committee. Akpabio insisted that the committee’s role was critical in ensuring effective legislative oversight in […]
House of Reps Reconsiders Special Seats for Women
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has said that the 10th assembly is considering reintroducing a bill on special seats for women and supporting electoral reforms to increase female representation in leadership structures. Speaking at a one-day high-level national summit on women’s inclusion in governance, the speaker represented by the […]
Organized Labour insist on Planned Nationwide Strike
The leadership of the National Assembly and representatives of the Federal Government on Sunday evening, met with the leadership of the organised labour to avert the planned nationwide strike scheduled for today Monday, June 3. At the meeting, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, who said the demands of labour are justifiable, however, appealed to Organised Labour […]