House of Representatives (Nigeria)

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House of Representatives
APC
since 4 July 2023
Minority Whip
Ali Isa, PDP
since 4 July 2023
Structure
Seats360
Political groups
Majority (176)

Minority (118)

  •   
    People's Democratic Party
    (118)

Others (64)

Vacant (2)

  •   Vacant (2)
Length of term
4 years
Elections
FCT, Nigeria
Website
www.nass.gov.ng

The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the

upper chamber.[2]

The Green Chamber has 360 members who are elected in single-member

Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives
is the presiding officer of the house.

Nigerian state delegations

The

Nigerian state and one senate member from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. There must be three hundred and sixty members in total, representing constituencies for the Federal House of Representatives.[3]

THE HOUSE REFRESENTATIVE OF NIGERIA

The House Representative of Nigeria is the lower house of the country bicameral National assembly. The Senate of Nigeria is the upper house.

The current house of representative formed the following elections held in April 2019 has a total of 360members who are elected in single member constituencies using the simple majority (or first past-the post) system. members served a four years term. the speaker of the Nigeria House of representative is the presiding officer of the house. the current speaker is TAJUDDEN ABBAS. He was elected on June 2023.[4]

DEPUTY SPEAKER (House of representative)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKERS TILL DATE

  1. SIR FREDERIC METCALFE 1955-1959
  2. JAJA WACHUKU 1959-1960 NCNC
  3. IBRAHIM JALO WAZIRI 1960-1966 NPC
  4. EDWIN UME-EZEOKE 1979-1983 NPN
  5. CHAHA BIAM 1983-1999 NPN
  6. SALISU BUHARI 1999-2000 PDP
  7. GHALI UMAR NA ABBA 2000-2003 PDP
  8. AMINU BELLO MASARI 2003-2007 PDP
  9. PATRICIA ETTEH 2007.. PDP
  10. DIMEJI BANKOLE 2007-2011 PDP
  11. AMINU WAZIRI TAMBUWAL 201-2015 PDP/APC
  12. YAGUBU DUGARA 2015-2019 APC/PDP
  13. FEMI GBAJABIAMILA 2019-2023 APC
  14. TAJUDDEN ABBAS KALU 2023-PRESENT APC[4]

Members (since 1979)

Party leaders

PDP holding the highest minority, the current leaders in the 10th National Assembly are: Majority Leader Prof. Julius Ihonvbere From Edo State, Chief Whip Usman Bello Kumo from Gombe State, Abdullahi Ibrahim Halims from Kogi State as the Deputy Majority Leader, while Ogun Lawmaker, Oriyomi Onanuga emerged as the Deputy Chief Whip, and Minority Whip goes to Kingsley Chinda from Wike Camp and Deputy Minority Leader goes to two termed Member from Billiri, Gombe State, Ali Isa J.C.[5]

See also

  • History of Nigeria
  • Legislative branch
  • List of national legislatures
  • Nigerian First Republic
  • Nigerian Second Republic
  • Nigerian Third Republic
  • Nigerian Fourth Republic

References

  1. ^ Abdur-Rahman, Alfa-Shaban (12 June 2019). "Nigeria National Assembly leadership". africanews.com. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  2. ^ "National Parliaments: Nigeria". loc.gov. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Chapter Five of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria: Legislature". waado.org.
  4. ^ a b E FRANCK, FRANCK (2024). UP TO DATE CURRENT AFFAIRS. NIGERIA: FRANCK E FRANCK. p. 14.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ^ "Principal Officers of The House of Representatives". Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.

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