•Oshiomhole and the Senate The Senate has formally condemned and dissociated itself from comments attributed to Senator Adams Oshiomhole describing the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) as ‘a bunch of criminals and thieves’. According to the upper chamber, the remarks do not represent the official position, resolution, opinio...
•Former NNPC boss, Mele Kyari The Senate Committee on Public Accounts today ordered the arrest of the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, for failing to appear before it over allegations involving N210 trillion in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2023. The directive fol...
•Nigerian Senate The plan by Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, to sponsor a bill seeking to introduce a single six-year tenure for presidents and governors after the 2027 general elections has heightened fears about plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to allow incumbents stay longer in office. Senate Leader Bamidele in an interview wi...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has asked the federal government to impose an outright ban on the importation of foreign textile materials as part of efforts to revive Nigeria’s struggling textile industry and stimulate local cotton production. The upper chamber also urged the federal government, through the Ministries of Agriculture and Trade and...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has pledged to commence urgent deliberations on the establishment of state police this week as part of efforts to address the growing insecurity across the country. Speaking at a media briefing with Senate correspondents, the Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, stated that the matter had gained priority among o...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has stepped down consideration of the Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, 2026, following stringent debates among lawmakers over its relevance and potential overlap with existing institutions. The bill, which seeks to establish a professional body for certified trainers a...
•Nigerian Senate Delta North’s Senator Ned Nwoko has said the Red Chamber’s passage of the National Agency for Malaria Elimination Bill is a landmark step in Nigeria’s fight against malaria. He expressed the confidence that the country could henceforth move from managing the disease to eliminating it, reports The Nation. Nwoko, who sponsored t...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday condemned the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo State. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, described the incident as a national tragedy. Addressing lawmakers upon resumption of plenary yesterday, Akpabio said the abduction was an attack on the nation’s collective humanity, reports Chan...
•Nigerian Senate Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday condemned the abduction of 87 students and teachers in Borno and Oyo states within 24 hours. Bamidele, also Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, added that the recent abduction accentuated the need to expedite the establishment of state ...
•A ballot box The Senate has passed amendments to the Electoral Act aimed at accelerating the resolution of pre-election disputes and curbing the practice of forum shopping in electoral matters. The proposed amendments seek to ensure that pre-election cases are filed only in courts with proper jurisdiction, preventing litigants from seeking fa...
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