•Akpabio and Ndume The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume sustained criticism of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu style of governance may have courted the anger of certain forces in the Presidency who have vowed to make him pay for his “sins”. It was gathered that peeved by the lawmaker’s recent comment that President Tinubu […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate, today, went into an emergency executive session following a heated disagreement over the official sitting time of the Red Chamber. The disagreement involved the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and his predecessor, Senator Ahmed Lawan, over the timing of the plenary sessions, reports The Nigerian Tribune. Accord...
•Akpabio, Ireti and Wike Senate President, Godswill Akpabio today weighed in on the verbal altercation between Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike and lone FCT Senator, Ireti Kingibe, urging the minister to pay no heed to detractors. Akpabio gave the charge while flagging-off the construction of the Kugbo Bus Terminal in the Ny...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has denied receiving any correspondence from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu requesting Senate approval of funds for presidential jet. Akpabio spoke after a closed-door meeting of senators at the chambers which lasted for over an hour, reports Daily Trust The senators had cut short their recess which was ...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed a report that the 10th Senate is proposing that the federal government should procure new aircraft for President Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima. Speaking to newsmen in Maiduguri shortly after leading a delegation to pay a condolence visit to Senator...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria has experienced more jailbreaks since the change of name from prison service to correctional centers. He stated this during plenary yesterday in Abuja, while commenting on two legislations billed for concurrence, reports Daily Trust. They are the bill to repeal and enact the law estab...
•Emefiele and Akpabio The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has come under fire over his remarks against the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The Ohanaeze Youths yesterday lashed out at the Senate President, insisting that Emefiele stabilised the economy which the National Assembly was destroying with it...
•Akpabio A Civil Society Organisation, (CSO), National Association For Peaceful Coexistence and Good Governance, has threatened to organise a massive protest against the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio over the recent allegation of budget padding levelled against him by senator representing Bauchi Central, Abdul Ningi. Founder of the ...
•Godswill Akpabio Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a suit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio over “the failure to refer the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding to appropriate anti-corruption agencies for investigation and prosecution, and to recall Senator Abdul Ningi who blew the whistle on the allega...
•Akpabio and Ningi The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has exonerated himself from the suspension of Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi from the senate. Ningi was suspended by the upper legislative house for three months on March 14, 2024, following an interview he granted to BBC, where he accused the senate leadership of padding the 2024 budget, [...

