But before that it was a opportunity for family photos and other special moments. There are 23 new members in the Assembly, and 12 in the Senate (although seven senators have previous legislative ...

The 2025 session of the General Assembly begins Jan. 8, which also is the start of the two-year terms of lawmakers elected in November, when every one of the 187 seats was up for election. Two new ...

The lawmakers were suspended for three sittings for tempering with the report on the activities of the Chairman, Otukpo Local Government Area, Maxwell Ogiri.

Newly elected Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo, R-Tulare, listens at the state Capitol during the Assembly’s first meeting of the new legislative session on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.

By ordering the arrest of an Etung Legislative Council member and suspending him, the Assembly is behaving more like a dictatorship than a representative body.

The scheduled day to end the 2023 legislative session came and went last week. While the Assembly made history by passing the Clean Slate Act, a bill to seal criminal records after a designated time ...