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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have sued the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the

January 21, (THEWILL) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, “for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn, their highest since the return of democracy in

  The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas. In the suit, Akpabio and Abbas were accused of "unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn, their highest since the return of democracy in 1999."   Mr Akpabio and Mr Abbas were sued for themselves and on behalf of all me...

The lawmakers had last month raised their allocation from N197bn proposed by President Bola Tinubu for them in the budget to N344bn.

Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo state, says a 50 percent execution of the 2024 budget will ease current economic hardship in the country.

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has said that the suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu, aligns with President Bola Tinubu’s oath

The President’s stubbornness, according to the Nobel Laureate, must have paid off in his political career, from his private-sector days to leading Africa’s largest economy.

The Anti-Homosexuality Act is just one of the 14 Bills Parliament passed in 2023, taking the tally of the Bills passed into law since the 11th Parliament kicked off in 2021 to 75 in 257 sittings

President Bola Tinubu on Monday afternoon signed into law the 2024 Appropriation Bill at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Tinubu signed the N28.7tn budget document earlier approved by the National Assembly hours after he arrived in Abuja.