What to Expect from Ghana’s President-Elect, John Mahama
On December 7, 2024, a total of 11,191,422 registered voters went to the polls to elect Ghana’s new President. John Dramani Mahama, the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC),…
Nigeria`s ranking on TI`s Corruption Index
Nigeria has been ranked 145th out of 180 countries in the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released Tuesday by the global anti-corruption think tank Transparency International (TI). Every year, TI…
World Hypertension Day
The world celebrates World Hypertension Day every May 17 to specifically draw attention to the seriousness of this silent killer disease. The theme for the 2017 celebrations, according to the…
Nigeria and International Day to End World Obstetric Fistula
May 23 is the International Day to End World Obstetric Fistula, a condition many Nigerians are still oblivious of. An Obstetric Fistula is a hole between the vagina and bladder…
Nigeria spends N4.62 trillion on National Security in 5 years, yet widespread insecurity remains
Amidst claims by Nigerian security agencies that they are being underfunded, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today that a total N4.62trillion has been allocated to the federal security sector in…
INVESTIGATION: Men, Woman facing criminal allegations, who will make laws for Nigeria
Nigeria’s eighth National Assembly was inaugurated on Tuesday, June 9. At the chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, 109 Senators and 360 Representatives were sworn in to…
2015 Budget: National Assembly’s N150billion enough to fund capital votes for 20 Federal MDAs
The whopping N150 billion allocated to the National Assembly in the 2015 Appropriation Act, can fund capital votes for 20 Ministries, Departments and Parastatals [MDAs], a PREMIUM TIMES analysis of…
Top 10 Corruption Scandals Nigeria’s National Assembly Hasn’t Resolved
The seventh National Assembly will most likely end its tenure in early June without resolving majority of the huge misgovernance and corruption issues that characterised the outgoing administration.
NASS scores below 10% at the real cost of infrastructures
The Nigerian National Assembly is allocated N150 billion annually which sums up to N600 billion in four years. In the space of these four years, the lawmakers have passed only 106…
