•Cutting the Independence Day anniversary cake in Aso Rock President Bola Tinubu today led Vice President Kashim Shettima, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas and other high profile Nigerians and guests to mark Nigeria’s 64th Independence anniversary. The celebration was climaxed with...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio said today, Monday, July 29, that notable barriers deeply rooted in culture, religion, economy, and society have been against the passage of gender-related bills by the National Assembly. Speaking at the opening of a two-day workshop on gender-responsive budgeting and the role of the legislature in ad...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has announced that the newly approved minimum wage applies universally to all workers in both the public and private sectors, including maids and other domestic staff. He made this statement during the plenary session yesterday. The bill was swiftly passed by both chambers of the National Assembly sho...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Senate President Godswill Akpabio has narrated how angry Nigerians crashed his phone with calls over the nightclub comment he made against his colleague, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Akpabio had told Natasha during plenary last week that the Senate chamber was not a “nightclub”...
•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...

