•Nigerian Senate The Senate today protested entry of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Chair, Zacch Adedeji and consultants to the Senate. This was after the Upper Chamber suspended its rules to admit Adedeji and the consultants to explain what the Tax Reform Bill entailed, reports Channels TV. However, before they were admitted, a sli...
•The Nigerian Senate Following the creation of the Ministry of Regional Development by President Bola Tinubu, a slight ruckus ensued on the floor of the Senate today over the source of funding recommended for regional commissions. This came during a clause-by-clause consideration of the South-South Development Commission Establishment Bill 202...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Senators today passed a vote of confidence on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. The vote of confidence on the Presiding Officer of the Senate came on the heels of reports that his colleagues have plans to impeach him. Some online media platforms (not The Frontier) yesterday speculated that the presidenc...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Constitution Review has concluded its two-day retreat on the amendments to the 1999 constitution in Kano and agreed to include full autonomy for local governments in the country’s legal document. The federal lawmakers, however, expressed divergent views on the issue of state police, reports Daily Trust....
•Nigerian Senate Southern and Northern Senators yesterday disagreed over the agitation for the reintroduction of a regional form of government in Nigeria. The Senators spoke sidelines of the ongoing two-day retreat of the Senate Adhoc Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in Kano, re...
•Nigerian Senate A performance report by OrderPaper, Nigeria’s parliamentary monitoring organisation, has revealed that 15 senators and 149 members of the House of Representatives did not sponsor any bills in the first year of the 10th National Assembly. The report, released in Abuja by Oke Epia, Executive Director of OrderPaper, highlighted a...
•Nigerian Senate Indications have emerged that the total monthly pay of 99 non-principal officers of the Nigerian senate is above N2 billion. One of them, Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila (NNPP, Kano), yesterday, confirmed that he receives about N21 million monthly as his perquisite for representing the people of Kano South Senatorial District...
•Senate The resumption of the Senate from its Easter and Sallah break today, Tuesday, April 30, was almost enmeshed in rowdy session as senators literally fought over seats. The plenary commenced at about 11:00am after the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, arrived the chamber and took his seat, reports The Nation. After saying the statutory ...
•Senate Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has revealed that Nigeria would need an annual $10 million to revive the country’s moribund electricity generation, distribution and supply chain. This is even as senators rejected the recent hike in electricity tariff, describing it as unacceptable and anti-people, reports Daily Sun. The Minister sa...
Four of the 13 former governors in the Senate and 21 other senators have not sponsored any bill since June 13, 2023 when the 10th National Assembly was inaugurated, findings have shown. The ex-governors in the Senate are Senate President Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Ad...
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