•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...
•Lalong Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, says he is confused on whether he should move to the senate or retain his position in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu. Lalong, a two-term governor of Plateau State, had contested but lost the February 25, 2023 election, reports Daily Trust. The Independent of National Electoral [&he...
•Kyari appears before Senate Forty eight hours after being summoned by the Senate, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, has now appeared before the joint committee on appropriations. The Senate had issued a 24-hour ultimatum on Wednesday to the NNPCL boss after an obser...
•Senate chamber. The Senate Committee on Labour today said that there’s a need for reorientation in the budget office, as the situation is not in tandem with the President Bola Tinubu administration. The committee raised this observation when receiving officials from the Ministry of Labour and Productivity and agencies for the defence of their...
•Mele Kyari The Chairman of the Senate Appropriation Committee, Senator Adeola Olamilekan, today, directed the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, to appear before the committee in 24 hours. Olamilekan, who asked Kyari to appear in company of the Executive Secretary of the Niger...
•Nigerian Senate After harmonising the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, the Senate and the House of Representatives have raised the student loan appropriation to N10billion. Both chambers dropped the controversial presidential yacht, for which N5 billion was budgeted. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assured Nigerians after signing the bud...
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