•Senate A Bill which seeks to increase the salaries and allowances of judicial officers today, Thursday, May 9, scaled second reading at the Senate. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration and debate on a bill titled: “A bill for an act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders [&helli...
•Senate The Senate has approved the death sentence as a penalty for drug traffickers in the country, as it passes through the third reading, the 2024 NDLEA Act (Amendment) Bill. The proposal was adopted today when the Senate dissolved into a committee of the whole for a clause-by-clause consideration of a report of the Chairman […]
•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 […]...
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