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Mid-Term Performance Review of the 10th House of Representatives (2023–2025)
This mid-term assessment evaluates the performance of Nigeria’s 10th House of Representatives halfway through its four-year mandate, measuring progress against the Legislative Agenda (2023–2027) and citizens' expectations in a challenging national context. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including nationwide surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and document reviews, to examine the House’s three core constitutional functions: lawmaking, oversight, and representation.
About
The assessment situates the 10th House within a complex socio-political and economic environment characterised by the removal of subsidies, exchange-rate reforms, high inflation, executive dominance in a presidential system, and persistent public distrust of parliament.
Despite these pressures, the 10th House, under the leadership of the Right Honourable Abbas Tajudeen, PhD, GCON, has embarked on one of the most deliberate and reform-oriented agendas in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. Guided by a vision to professionalise the legislature, enhance transparency, and deepen citizen engagement, the House has introduced structural, procedural, and technological innovations that are gradually reshaping Nigeria’s parliamentary culture.
A key achievement has been the development of institutional capacity. More than 200 first-time legislators and hundreds of aides and clerks have received targeted training on legislative drafting, oversight, digital governance and public engagement through the Parliamentary
Development Programme. New structures, including the Programme Monitoring Unit (PMU), the Programme Coordinating Unit (PCU) and a Technical Steering Committee, now coordinate reforms and donor partnerships. At the same time, investments in digital tools for bill tracking, oversight follow-up and document management have begun to modernise parliamentary operations. However, gaps in ICT integration and literacy persist.
The House has also undertaken procedural and structural reforms to promote order, evidence-based lawmaking, and thematic responsiveness.
A Legislative Planning Calendar now guides priority-setting; pre-legislative stakeholder consultations have become more routine; and new standing committees, including those on Climate Change and Green Economy, Digital Economy and Innovation, and Monitoring and Evaluation, have broadened the legislature’s ability to address emerging policy areas. These reforms have created a more disciplined legislative rhythm, with better-prepared debates, clearer committee mandates, and stronger technical support for members.
Why this report?
This mid-term assessment evaluates the performance of Nigeria’s 10th House of Representatives halfway through its four-year mandate, measuring progress against the Legislative Agenda (2023–2027) and citizens' expectations in a challenging national context.
What we aim to address
The study employs a mixed-methods approach, including nationwide surveys, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and document reviews. to examine the House’s three core constitutional functions: lawmaking, oversight, and representation.
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