•Nigerian Senate The Senate has threatened to withhold approval of the 2026 budget proposal for the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation over poor release of funds to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the non-payment of contractors. The warning was issued today by the Senate Committee on Finance during a budget defe...
•Senators Natasha and Ndubueze Tempers flared yesterday at the budget defence session of the Ministry of Steel Development as Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) engaged in a heated exchange with the Chairman of the Senate Committee overseeing the ministry, Patrick Ndubueze, following nearly four hours of deliberations. The ses...
Tension flared today during a budget defence session involving the Federal Ministry of Works as two lawmakers, Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi (Ebonyi North Central) and Senator Rufai Sani Hanga (Kano Central), engaged in a heated exchange. The confrontation occurred while the ministry, led by the Minister of Works, David Umahi, appeared before la...
The Senate has postponed the resumption of plenary session from January 28 to Tuesday, February 4, 2025. A statement yesterday in Abuja by the Clerk of the Senate, Andrew Nwoba, titled, “Change in Resumption Date”, “informed the lawmakers that there is a change in the resumption date due to the ongoing budget defence. It has […]
•Tinubu and Senate The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Adeola Olamilekan, has affirmed January 31, 2025, as a provisional date for the passage of the 2025 ₦49.7 trillion budget as the committee prepares to begin budget defence tomorrow. He made this disclosure today during a meeting with the chairmen of relevant committees ...
The Frontier is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. It is published by Okims Media Links Limited headed by Sunny Okim, a veteran journalist who is widely known as The Grandmaster, fondly called so by colleagues and friends for being Nigeria’s pioneer movie journalist.
© 2026 The Frontier, Published by Okims Media Links Limited.
designed by winnet services
