•Nigerian Senate The Senate has dismissed fresh calls by opposition leaders seeking another amendment to the 2026 Electoral Act, insisting that any proposed changes must follow laid down legislative procedures within the National Assembly. The position of the upper chamber followed a press conference in Abuja by leaders of opposition parties, ...
•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday night formally urged the Senate to begin the process of amending the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of state police, declaring that Nigeria must urgently restructure its security architecture to confront terrorism, banditry and insurgency. Speaking at an interfaith breaking o...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund yesterday met with officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), raising concerns over examination charges, system failures, and access to tertiary education, particularly for students in rural communities. During the session, Senator Amos Yohanna (...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has confronted the president’s economic team over the poor implementation of the 2025 budget and what it described as unrealistic assumptions underpinning the proposed ₦58.7 trillion 2026 budget, raising the possibility of reducing the proposal. During a tense budget defence session before the Senate Committee on Ap...
•Nigerian Senate The Nigerian Senate today reprimanded heads of federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies for persistent late arrival at budget defence sessions, warning that the upper chamber would no longer tolerate what it described as a growing culture of disrespect for parliamentary oversight. The rebuke came during the 2026 budget def...
•Princess Adejoh A former Kogi State Governorship Aspirant and Women’s leader, Princess Grace Iye Adejoh, has condemned the Senate for formally passing the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2026, into law, retaining a provision that allows electronic transmission of election results but discarding the mandatory real-time transmissi...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has strongly condemned the killing of 56 Nigerians and the abduction of women and children in Konkoso Village, Niger State, describing the attack as brutal and unacceptable. The incident occurred on February 14, 2026, when terrorists and bandits attacked communities in Borgu Local Government Area, killing residents,...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today rescinded its earlier decision on Clause 60 (3) adopting the version passed by the Senate which allowed both electronic and manual transmission of results. The approval came amidst protest from opposition lawmakers who staged a walk from chambers, chanting “APC, ole”! APC, ole!, repo...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has today passed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026. Before the passage, there was a rowdy session as the upper chamber resumed proceedings with a demand for division over Clause 60 raised by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (ADC/Abia South), reports Channels TV. The Senate President, Godswill Akpa...
•Senators Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan and Titus Zam The lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was today involved in another confrontation at the National Assembly, this time at the office of Senator representing Benue North-West, Titus Zam, Chairman of the Senate Committee on the North Central Development Commission. ...
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