•Senator Ali Ndume Senate Chief Whip Ali Ndume yesterday criticised the renovation of the inner part of the main chamber of the Senate, saying it looks more like a ‘’conference room.’’ Ndume said apart from the sitting arrangement being improper, the chamber does not only lack electronic voting devices but has poor microphones, reports The [&h...
•Suspended Senator Abdul Ningi As the Senate resumes after its one month break, the fate of a suspended senator from Bauchi State, Abdul Ningi, hangs in the balance. Ningi was suspended for three months before the Senate embarked on its Easter and Sallah break in March, reports Daily Sun. In an interview with the BBC […]
•Senate The Senate has postponed its resumption scheduled for Tuesday April 16, 2024 till April 23. The postponement was contained in a terse message to senators by the Clerk to the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze. Senators and House of Representatives members are observing Easter and Sallah break, reports The Nation. The House of Representatives yes...
•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, [...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has released a strong affirmation of the security of cash within Nigerian banks, highlighting the country’s banking sector’s soundness. Amid widespread unconfirmed rumours, not originating with the CBN, raising concerns about the health of Nigerian banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria asked the people not ...
•Akpabio and Ningi The Senate is set to recall Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP – Bauchi Central) from his three months suspension, it has been learnt. Senate President Godswill Akpabio disclosed this today while answering questions from reporters on arrival from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, reports The Nation. A...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu and the Senate, yesterday, ordered the military to apprehend the killers of 16 Nigerian Army personnel who were on a peace mission to the Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. In carrying out the order, it was gathered yesterday that the military combed the warring […]...
•Peter Obi Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, is of the opinion that the Nigerian Senate still owes the people some explanations as regards the budget padding scandal rocking the Upper Chambers at the moment. Obi said the claims and counter-claims over the alleged N3trillion which was […]...
•Akpabio Dr. Sam Amadi, a former governorship aspirant in Imo State and director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, has condemned the suspension clamped on Senator Abdul Ningi who represents Bauchi Central at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly. Recall that Ningi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) federal lawmaker, last week...
The Senate has been thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of the federal government’s palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their constituents. The Red Chamber was debating the allegation by Senator Abdul Ningi, the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, during an interview with BBC Hausa, repor...