House of Representatives

December 14, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s loan request of $5.8 billion and a grant of $10 million. The loans are to be sourced from the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, China Exim bank, Chinese...

December 09, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking the establishment of crèches in government-owned and private offices, schools, hospitals, and other workplaces for second reading. The proposal is contained in a bill seeking to amend the...

December 07, (THEWILL) - Members of the House of Representatives have called on the Inspector General of Police to take over the investigation into the death of Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni and place the suspects on the no-fly...

December 03, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday transmitted Finance Bill 2021 to the House of Representatives for consideration and passage along with the 2022 Appropriation Bill presently before the National Assembly. The President had on October 7 presented a...

December 02, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives has announced plans to investigate illegal recruitments, nominal roll padding and duplication of projects by ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The House at plenary on Thursday, mandated its Committees on...

December 02, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives on Thursday invited the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, to clear the air on the cost implication of conducting direct primaries by political parties in the...

November 25, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives on Thursday ordered an investigation into the rehabilitation and expansion of the road linking Lokoja in Kogi State to Benin in Edo State which has gulped N200 billion. The order followed the...

November 25, (THEWILL) - A bill seeking to establish a broadcasting practitioners’ Council has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Representative Olaifa Aremu, seeks to establish a broadcasting Council charged with the responsibility of...

November 24, (THEWILL) - Members of the the House of Representatives on Wednesday, rejected a bill which seeks to permit Nigerians to drag the government to court over  failure to provide social welfare. The bill sought to make justiciable the...

November 24, (THEWILL) - Barely two weeks after the Federal Ministry of Interior abolished the academic qualification dichotomy, the House of Representatives has followed suit. The green chamber has now passed a bill abolishing the existing dichotomy between Higher National...