•Ningi, a BVAS and the Senate Senator representing Bauchi Central at the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, last night said the Senate could make the adoption of the votes and proceedings on the electronic transmission of election results public amid ongoing controversy over the issue. Ningi stated this on Channels Television ahead of the upper c...
•Senator Natasha The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division today, affirmed the suspension of the Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Senate . The appellate court held that the Senate has power to discipline any erring member and that, in the instant case, Natasha’s fundamental right was never breached as she alleged. Deliverin...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate will hold an emergency plenary session tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, 2026. In a notice sent by the Clerk of the Senate, Emmanuel Odo, the lawmakers were directed to convene at the National Assembly complex on the instruction of Senate President Godswill Akpabio. “I am directed by His Excellency, the President of [...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has clarified that the Senate did not reject the electronic transmission of election results but merely retained the provision as contained in the 2022 Electoral Act. Akpabio made the clarification yesterday in Abuja while speaking at a book launch on the burden ...
•Doctors Out of the 6,000 medical doctors the country produces yearly, about 2,000 of them are unable to access placement for housemanship, according to the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). The Registrar of the Council, Fatimah Kyari, while speaking on the issue yesterday, blamed it on the “Centralised Housemanship System” operati...
•Nigerian Senate Hallowmace Foundation Africa, a foremost organisation dedicated to the advancement of democracy, good governance and accountable legislation across the continent, has risen in strong condemnation of the retrogressive provisions passed by the Nigerian Senate in the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate today panicked over public backlash from its insistence to retain electronic transmission of election results, in place of the proposed real time electronic transmission of election results. As a result it hurriedly deployed thirteen Senators to the Press Centre of the Senate in defense of the Senate President, Sena...
•Samson Itodo and the Nigerian Senate The Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, claims the Senate rejected proposals for real-time transmission of election results because unpopular and corrupt politicians are scared of accountability. Yesterday, the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 was passed through...
Outrage yesterday trailed Senate’s reversal of the real time upload of election results from polling units to the IReV portal and replacement with the provision in the 2022 Electoral Act which merely stipulated electronic or manual transfer. Earlier, the Committee on Electoral Matters had recommended that the presiding officer shall electro...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has passed the Electoral Act 2022 (Repeal and Reenactment) Amendment Bill 2026 through the third reading. It, however, rejected a proposed amendment to Clause 60, Subsection 3, of the bill, which sought to make the electronic transmission of election results mandatory. The rejected provision would have required pres...

