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The House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking an extension of the implementation period for the 2023 supplementary budget....

Nigerian sprint icon, TOBI AMUSAN has won the 100-meter hurdles gold at the ongoing African Games in Ghana....

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have agreed to hold a public hearing on the menace of land grabbing in the state....

The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to ban the importation of adire/kampala and other local fabrics to protect the local market and earn foreign exchange for the country....

A bill seeking to grant five-month leave to persons who lose their spouse has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives....

The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, to immediately stop the signing and implementation of a trade partnership with the United Kingdom (UK), which allows UK lawyers to practice within Nigeria....

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has questioned the Bank of Industry (BOI) over the unrecovered micro, small and medium enterprises offtake grants from 19,538 Nigerians to address the COVID-19 health pandemic....

The House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis has given the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor MOHAMMED PATE, and the Permanent Secretary, DAJU KACHOLLOM, a 72-hour ultimatum to appear before it over allegations...

The federal government has began the distribution of 42,000 metric tonnes of grains nationwide as recently directed by President Bola Tinubu to curb rising good prices.The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, confirmed this during an interactive session with the National Assembly joint committee on Agriculture Production Services and Rural Development.The committee chaired by Senator Saliu Mustapha had interrogated the Minister...

The minister of solid minerals development, Dele Alake, has said the federal government would ban or foreclose on the issuance of mining licenses to investors without requisite plans for local value addition.He said the government is no longer going to allow anybody or license any company that wants to go into the mineral sector without giving it a plan for local value addition like processing, and refining and this has a multiplier effect on the economy.Al...