•National Assembly complex, Abuja The National Assembly, NASS, yesterday, passed the N28,777,404,073,861 2024 Appropriation Bill as the aggregate expenditure for the 2024 fiscal year. The fiscal plan increased by N1.2 trillion from the initial N27.5 trillion to N28,777 trillion. There was also an increase in the exchange rate from N750 to N800...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday Saturday, December 30, approved President Bola Tinubu’s request to borrow $7.8billion and €100 million as part of the 2022- 2024 borrowing plan of the federal government. The resolutions of the Senate followed its consideration and adoption the report of its committee on Local and Foreign Debt during its s...
An Abuja High Court has restrained one Pedro Chibuzo and Ekundinu Segun Elvis from parading themselves as National President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Senate President respectively. The duo had been claiming to represent the interests of students despite not being officially elected, reports The Nation. The court ...
•The 10th Senate The Senate has passed the bill for an act to amend the 2023 Appropriation Act to extend the implementation year from December 31, 2023 to March 31, 2024. The upper chamber also passed a bill for an act to amend the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Act to extend the implementation year from December […]
•CAC boss, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji The Senate has mandated the Inspector General of Police to compel appearance of the Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, Hussaini Ishaq Magaji, before the Senate Committee on Finance within 24 hours. Invoking section 89, sub section 2, the Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Sani Mus...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today urged the Senate to consider and confirm, 11 nominees for appointment as Justices of the Supreme Court. Tinubu’s letter of request was read at plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The 11 nominees had been recommended by the National Judicial Council for Tinubu’s approval to fill the vacant positions...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has announced plans to launch a full investigation into the Military Pensions Board after it resumes from recess. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Olamilekan Adeola, made the announcement today during the defence of the budget report by the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, ...
•The Nigerian Senate Determined to pass the N27.5trillion 2024 Appropriation Bill before the end of this month, the Joint National Assembly Committee on Appropriations has given a 48-hour deadline to all sub-committees to submit their reports on the 2024 budget. Recall that President Bola Tinubu had last month, presented to the joint session o...
The Senate today announced President Bola Tinubu’s request seeking the confirmation of the nomination of 19 commissioners of the National Population Commission (NPC). The appointees are: 1. Emmanuel Eke (Abia) 2. Clifford Zirra (Adamawa) 3. Chidi Ezeoke (Anambra) 4. Isa Buratai (Borno) 5. Alex Ukam (Cross River) 6. Blessyn Brume-Ataguba (Delta...
•Nigerian Senate The leadership of the 10th Senate has donated 109 million naira to victims of mistaken army air strike at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, who announced the donation when he led other principal officers and senators on a condolence visit [&hel...

