•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...
•The Senate The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has said that the escalation of kidnappings in the North, particularly Kaduna State lately, is not only “reprehensible” but also calls for “urgent and resolute action” to tackle the mass abductions of citizens. As a body, it said it had the mandate to ensure that the security situation […]...
Service chiefs, today, appeared before the Senate Joint Committee (comprising Army, Navy, Defence and Airforce committees) to begin an investigative hearing on the gruesome killing of military personnel in Okuama community in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, last Thursday. A minute silence was first observed for the soul...
•Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua Members of the Northern Senators’ Forum (NSF) yesterday named Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua as the replacement for Sen. Abdul Ningi as the Chairman of the group. Yar’Adua, a younger brother to the late President Umar Yar’Adua, hails from Katsina State. He is also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, reports Ni...
•Senator Adetokunbo Abiru Barely 24 hours after a dramatic plenary culminating into the suspension of the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, Southern Senators have revived their forum, electing Senator Adetokunbo Abiru representing Lagos East, as Chairman. The inauguration of Abiru who replaces the Senate Leader, Sen...
•Buhari Senators yesterday bemoaned that the borrowing culture of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is behind the current economic hardship faced by Nigerians. They have also moved to probe the N22.8 trillion ways and means advances extended by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the federal government under former President Buhari...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, today, presided over the swearing-in of three newly elected senators. Those sworn in during the plenary were Professor Anthony Okorie (All Progressives Congress, Ebonyi South), Mustapha Musa (All Progressives Congress, Yobe East), and Prince Pam Mwadkon (Action Democrat...
Senators in the Committee on Gas Resources today expressed disaffection over the blame game between the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over disbursement of N135Billion for the Nigeria Gas Expansion Programme. The Senate Committee had last week asked the beneficiary oil and gas companies to appear before i...
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