•Joseph Tegbe The Senate today confirmed the appointments of Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe as Minister of Power, giving legislative backing to President Bola Tinubu’s latest cabinet reshuffle aimed at strengthening diplomacy and stabilising the country’s troubled electricity ...
•Akpabio and Oshiomhole …If you become unruly, I will use the rules to take you out of the Senate – Akpabio warns Oshiomhole Proceedings in the Senate were today disrupted for over 15 minutes following a heated exchange between Senator Adams Oshiomhole and Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary. The incident began when Akpabio ...
•Nigerian Senate Barely a year to the inauguration of the 11th National Assembly, the Senate yesterday moved to tighten its internal rules, effectively narrowing the path to its most powerful offices and edging out a class of incoming lawmakers, including serving governors and former senators eyeing leadership positions. In a move widely seen ...
•Tinubu and National Assembly Complex, Abuja The Senate has approved a $516 million syndicated loan request by President Bola Tinubu to fund the construction of Section 1, Phases 1A and 1B of the Sokoto–Badagry Super Highway. The approval followed the consideration of a report during plenary, presented by the Senate Committee on Local and Fore...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticised the reported swift approval of a $6 billion external loan request by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing the process as “reckless urgency.” Atiku, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), expressed concern that the Senate reportedly approved the request in l...
•Tinubu and Senate The Senate has expeditiously approved the request of President Bola Tinubu to go for external loans totalling $6 billion. The approval came barely three and a half hours after the senate president, Godswill Akpabio, read the letter from the president, seeking the approval, reports Vanguard. The Senate approved the loans foll...
•Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Rilwan Disu, has submitted a framework for the establishment of state police to the Deputy President of the Senate, Barau I. Jibrin, as part of efforts to decentralise policing in the country. The police chief presented the framework at Senator Barau’s ...
A civil society group, the North and South Movement for Justice, has criticised the ongoing Senate probe into the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), describing it as biased and politically motivated amid controversy over ₦210 trillion in flagged financial discrepancies. The group, led by Dogo Yaya, was reactin...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate leadership is expected to hold a high-level meeting with officials from the International Monetary Fund to discuss the country’s economic outlook and ongoing reform programmes under the administration of Bola Tinubu. The engagement forms part of the IMF’s Article IV Consultation with Nigeria, a routine assessment of...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday witnessed a dramatic session as nine senators announced their defection from various political parties to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe’s move triggered a constitutional debate on the floor of the chamber. The defecting lawmakers and their former political parties are Ami...
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