•Nigerian Senate The Senate has granted approval to the ₦1.77 trillion ($2.2b) loan request of President Bola Tinubu after a voice vote in favour of the request. The Senate presided by Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, approved the loan after the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts chaired by Senator Wammako Magatarkada (APC, Soko...
•Terrorists The Senate has raised the alarm that terrorists from Mali and Burkina Faso known as Lakurawa have Invaded Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, other states in the North West and Niger State in the North Central. Noting that the trend now has an international dimension, the Senate urged the Nigerian Military to set up early warning […]
•Yakubu Danladi Umar The Senate today invoked section 157 (1), officially removing Yakubu Umar as the Chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal. He was sacked over allegations of misconduct, reports Channels TV. Umar’s removal gives way to the official resumption of Abdullahi Bello as the new substantive Chairman of the Tribunal. 84 Senators which ...
•Tinubu and Senate The Senate will approve the $2.2bn (about N1.77trillion) loan request of President Bola Tinubu today (Wednesday). This request, submitted by the president, is part of the external borrowing plan outlined for implementing the N28.7tn 2024 budget, reports The PUNCH. In separate letters read during the Senate and House of Repre...
•Late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah The Senate suspended the house rules today to admit family members and close relatives of the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah for the commencement of a valedictory session in his honour. During the service, President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio began by zeroing in attention to the seat of their former colleague, [&hell...
•Tinubu’s ministerial nominees The senate has confirmed the appointment of all seven ministerial nominees of President Bola Tinubu, submitted to the upper chamber last week for accelerated consideration. This follows the screening of the nominees by the upper chamber today. The screening exercise was held at the red chamber after it was ...
•Senate The Senate today stripped the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of powers to recommend candidates to the president for appointment as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer and board members of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). Under the new arrangement, the Red Chamber amended the NDIC Act and gave the President powers...
•Tinubu’s minister-nominees The presidency has postponed the screening of seven ministerial nominees “to allow all nominees to conclude all aspects of documentation and pre-screening exercises”. The screening exercise was initially scheduled to be held today on the floor of the Senate but the presidency said the exercise has now been shi...
•Tinubu’s ministerial nominees The Senate will screen the ministerial nominees forwarded to it today for confirmation by President Bola Tinubu. It was that the nominees, who have been cleared by the Department of State Services, DSS, besieged the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, yest...
•Newly nominated ministers The Senate is set to begin screening of seven ministerial nominees recently announced by President Bola Tinubu tomorrow. This follows the earlier request to the Senate by President Tinubu to confirm the new ministerial nominees, reports Channels TV. The president had hours after their nomination last week, written to...
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