•Nigerian Senate The Senate has today passed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026. Before the passage, there was a rowdy session as the upper chamber resumed proceedings with a demand for division over Clause 60 raised by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (ADC/Abia South), reports Channels TV. The Senate President, Godswill Akpa...
•Senators Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan and Titus Zam The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was today involved in another confrontation at the National Assembly, this time at the office of Senator representing Benue North-West, Titus Zam, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the North Central Development Commission. ...
•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...
•Nigerian Senate The decision of the Senate on the amended Clause 60(3) permitting both electronic and manual transmission of results has raised fresh questions. The Senate yesterday rescinded its earlier decision rejecting electronic transmission of election results from polling units to the Independent National Electoral Commission Results V...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has amended the Electoral Act to permit the electronic transmission of election results, leaving safeguards to address potential technical challenges. Recall that The Frontier had earlier exclusively reported that during its plenary today, the Senate adopted both electronic and manual modes of transmission of elect...
•Nigerian Senate Following the reconvening of plenary today to review its earlier stand concerning transfer of election results from polling booths which has generated uproar from the public, the Senate has gone ahead to adopt both manual and electronic modes of transmission of election results. The Frontier reports that this was hinted by a s...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has commenced an emergency plenary session on the contentious amendments to the Electoral Act, as protests erupted around the National Assembly over the removal of the clause mandating real-time electronic transmission of election results. The extraordinary sitting comes less than a week after the passage of the Ele...
•Ningi, a BVAS and the Senate Senator representing Bauchi Central at the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, last night said the Senate could make the adoption of the votes and proceedings on the electronic transmission of election results public amid ongoing controversy over the issue. Ningi stated this on Channels Television ahead of the upper c...
•Senator Natasha The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division today, affirmed the suspension of the Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Senate . The appellate court held that the Senate has power to discipline any erring member and that, in the instant case, Natasha’s fundamental right was never breached as she alleged. Deliverin...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate will hold an emergency plenary session tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, 2026. In a notice sent by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, the lawmakers were directed to convene at the National Assembly complex on the instruction of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. “I am directed by His Excellency, the President of [...
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