Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Saturday separately held closed-door meetings with ex-Nigerian leaders retired Generals Abdulsalam Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida,at their uphill residences in Minna, Niger. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reliably learnt that their meetings centred on the unity of the country. Lawan arrived in Minna...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District at the 2023 election, Alhaji Bashir Machina, has denied stepping down for Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan. Alhaji Machina, who debunked the report in a statement issued on Sunday in Damaturu, said it...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Senate President, Dr.Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated the government and people of Yobe on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the creation of the state. Lawan, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, acknowledged the contributions of past and present leaders to the development...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila and former Senate President, Ken Nnamani will unveil a book on 100 years of legislative debate in Nigeria. Mr Onwubuya Breakforth, the Chairman of the public presentation and launching committee of the book, made this...
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, the party’s Presidential candidate and the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, have urged people of Osun to re-elect Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, during Saturday’s governorship election. Also, Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Dapo Abiodun of Ogun...
President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan and North East caucus of the APC has congratulated Sen. Kashim Shettima on his nomination as 2023 vice presidential candidate of the party. Shettima is running mate to APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu. Lawan in a statement on behalf of the...
The Senate, on Wednesday at plenary, screened and confirmed all the seven ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 21. Buhari had in a letter that conveyed the names of the ministerial nominees to Senate, explained that the confirmation request was in accordance with the provisions of...
President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday said that the Senate would on June 29, screen for confirmation, the seven nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari for ministerial appointment. Lawan made the announcement before Senate adjourned plenary to June 28. “The ministerial nominees will be screened on Wednesday...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Sen. Sani Musa, (Niger East Senatorial District), says the Senate President Ahmad Lawan will make a very good President, if elected or affirmed through consensus at Tuesday’s APC’s Presidential Primaries scheduled for Eagle Square in Abuja. Musa spoke about the compelling qualities of the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) has denied reports that it has endorsed Senate President Ahmad Lawan, as its consensus candidate for 2023 election. Alhaji Sulaiman Arugugun, APC National Organising Secretary said this when he spoke with newsmen after an NWC meeting in Abuja on Monday....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, has felicitated the Nigerian child on the occasion of Children’s Day. Senator Lawan noted that May 27 was set aside to draw attention to the rights and plights of children in Nigeria The Senate President in...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Friday said President Mohamadu Buhari would commission for the first time the controversial 2nd Niger Bridge in Anambra State, South East Nigeria. Senator Lawan, a leading presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), disclosed this...
The Chief Whip of the Senate , Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu says nine presidential aspirants from the All Progressives Congress (APC) are set to step down to support the presidential ambition of the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan. Kalu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in...
The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, says the Senate will intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by bringing them back to negotiation table. Lawan made the promise on Tuesday in Abuja to officials of the National Association of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the nominations of Nnamonso Ekanem and Mahmoud Abubakar Magaji as members of the Federal Judicial Service Commission. The nominees who are from Akwa-Ibom and Niger States are to represent the South-South and North-Central zone on the Commission, respectively. The...
*As Bwacha formally defects to APC By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Senate on Tuesday received a letter from the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Iyorcha Ayu, nominating Senator Shuaibu Isa Lau (Taraba North) as the new Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate. Ayu said Senator Lau’s...
A Federal lawmaker representing Imo West district in the National Assembly, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has announced his intention to contest for presidency in 2023. He made the announcement in a letter to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan. Senator Lawan read the letter at the commencement of...
The Integrity Youth Alliance, a Civil Society Organisation has said that the leadership of the senate should be decisive on the proposed removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called Petrol. It said that foot dragging on the subsidy removal was akin to postponing the obvious when...
Senate President Ahmed Lawan has assured Nigerians that subsidy on Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) will not be removed for now as being reported by some social and conventional media. Lawan stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it will release the timetable for 2023 elections immediately President Muhammad Buhari signs the electoral amendment bill into law. The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who made this disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja during...