•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...
•Israeli bombardment in Gaza Strip today The Nigerian Senate has asked the federal government to collaborate with other countries to call for a ceasefire in the Isreal/ Hamas conflict. Since October 7, the Israeli military has relentlessly bombarded Gaza when Hamas militants launched an attack that left 1,400 dead in Israel, most of them civil...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The Senate has confirmed the remaining three Resident Electoral Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) nominated by President Bola Tinubu. The nominees are Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi from Lagos State, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha from Rivers State and Mr. Isma’ila Kaura Moyi from Zamfara Sta...
The Senate, today, passed the N2.17trn 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill after third reading. Before the passage of the bill, the Senate adopted the report of the harmonized sittings of both red and green chambers on the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill as submitted by Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Solomon Olamilek...
The Senate will today Thursday, pass the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu. As requested by Tinubu in the letter read in the Senate during plenary on Tuesday, the request was given expeditious consideration, reports The PUNCH. The budgetary proposals made in the bill...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The Senate has approved the appointment of seven of the nominees of President Tinubu as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The remaining three nominees were not present for screening, reports Channels TV. The nominees approved are Mr Etekamba Umoren – Akwa Ibom;...
•Shaakaa Chira The Senate has approved the appointment of the nomination of Shaakaa Chira from Taraba State as Auditor General for the Federation. Chira’s approval came shortly after he was screened by the Upper Chamber today. President Bola Tinubu, on October 20, approved the appointment of Chira as the substantive Auditor-General of the Fede...
•Adedeji The Senate today confirmed Mr. Zacchaeus Adedeji as Chairman of the federal government revenue-earning agency, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). His appointment was consequent on the retirement of the immediate past chairman of the agency, Muhammad Nami, reports Nigerian Tribune. Making presentations before the lawmakers duri...