The Senate president says survivors should be jailed, while sponsor Asuquo Ekpenyong argues the law should offer treatment, not punishment, as the bill heads to committees The Senate has passed…
The proposed laws seek to update Nigeria’s Geneva Conventions framework and establish domestic provisions for prosecuting serious international crimes. President Bola Tinubu has transmitted two bills to the House of…
NASS says it will translate federal laws into Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other Nigerian languages while expanding digital access to parliamentary records. The National Assembly is set to translate Nigerian…
State Police bill: At least 24 of the 36 state legislatures must approve the bill before Nigeria gets its first constitutional framework for state police. The National Assembly has transmitted…
The boycott follows Nigeria's evacuation of nearly 1,000 citizens since June, as lawmakers say repeated appeals to Pretoria have failed to stop the violence. The National Assembly has suspended all…
Minority lawmakers say they support state police in principle but reject the voice vote used to pass the bill The House of Representatives has passed the Constitution Alteration (State Police)…
Garba Maidoki says native doctors help "intercede" with ancestors, as the Senate advances a bill to overhaul drug regulation Senator Garba Maidoki, representing Kebbi South, has called for the inclusion…
Speaker Abbas Tajudeen says the executive version of the Bill carries stronger safeguards than the one the House earlier passed Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has defended…
Akpabio admits the Electoral Act may need a second look, even as he defends the Assembly's three-year record Senate President Godswill Akpabio has admitted that the National Assembly may have…
House marks three years with record bill count, but scores lower on inclusion The House of Representatives has introduced 2,747 bills since its inauguration in June 2023, passed 363 of…
