•Tinubu and Ningi The Senate under the leadership of Senate President Godswill Akpabio today suspended Senator Abdul Ningi over allegations of N3.7trn padding of the 2024 Budget. Ningi, from Bauchi Central Senatorial District, was suspended for three months after a long stormy session in the red chamber, reports Channels TV. A member of the Ap...
•Nigerian Senate President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio today inaugurated a 17 man adhoc Committee to investigate the Ways and Means and the Anchors Borrowers Programme under the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Senate had last month following the report of its Joint Committees on Banking, Insurance and other Fin...
•Police recruits The Senate, today, directed the Police Service Commission and the Nigeria Police Force to recruit a minimum of 10 candidates from each of the 774 local government councils in Nigeria. The directive, according to the Upper Chamber, should form part of its annual recruitment processes, reports Channels TV. The resolution was rea...
•House of Reps The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill to include Anambra State in the newly constituted Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. The bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, Cap N86, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to Provide […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today, Thursday, February 29, passed a Bill that seeks to add five years to the retirement age of staff of the National Assembly Service. If the Bill is signed into law, staff of the National Assembly Service would now retire at age 65 years instead of 60 years and 40 years […]
The Senate has thrown out a bill seeking to include Anambra State as one of the member states of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying that the state was not part of the Niger Delta region, which is the reason for the establishment of the interventionist agency. Speaking yesterday after the lead debate on […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today passed for second reading a bill seeking to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act to provide for single non-renewal term of six years for the governor and the deputy governors of the apex bank. The bill, sponsored by Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos) and all the 41 […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has again thrown out the controversial retirement bill that seeks to extend the retirement of the National Assembly staff to 65 years of age or 40 years of service, whichever comes first and across the 36 State Houses of Assembly. Majority of Senators heavily opposed the bill when it was brought […]
•Yemi Cardoso and CBN logo The Senate has confirmed the appointment of 12 persons as members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This confirmation comes after a report of the Committee On Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions Committee of the CBN was considered during plenary today, reports Chan...
The Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution has promised to complete the process in 24 months. The Chairman of the Committee, Sen.Barau Jibrin, said this at the inaugural meeting of the committee yesterday in Abuja, reports Vanguard. “It is important to note that the Committee is not constituted to rewrite the 1999 […]
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