The Senate has asked the Federal Government to ensure that representatives of Local Government Councils (LGCs) per state, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Councils, are included in the Federation Account Allocations Committee (FAAC). This, the upper chamber said, is to ensure representation of their interests. The resolution followed...
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The Senate on Tuesday asked the military to urgently redeploy personnel and advanced equipment to Borno and Yobe states, following a resurgence of attacks by Boko Haram terrorists in the areas. The resolution followed renewed insurgent attacks in the North-East region, including the killing of over a dozen soldiers...
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of the appointments of 19 persons as Chairman, Managing Director/CEO and Members of the Board of the North-Central Development Commission (NCDC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, read Tinubu’s letter during...
The Senate, on Thursday, paid glowing tributes to the late leader of the Ijaw Nation, Chief Edwin Clark, and called on the Federal Government to name a National Monument in his honour. The resolutions of the Senate followed a motion for a valedictory session in honour of Clark, presented...
The Senate on Thursday passed the remaining two of four key tax reform bills, having earlier approved two on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the newly passed bills are the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill, 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Bill, 2025. Their passage followed...
The Senate passed two of the four Tax Reform Bills on Wednesday. These are expected to reform Nigeria’s tax laws. Lawmakers approved the bills after considering and adopting recommendations from the Senate Committee on Finance, led by Sen. Sani Musa. The four key bills are: the Joint Revenue Board...
The Senate has set up an 18-member committee to oversee the implementation of emergency rule in Rivers, following the suspension of democratic government in the state. President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, made the announcement at the resumption of sitting on Tuesday after the Easter recess. Akpabio stressed the...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas says the National Assembly will set up a reconciliation committee to address the political differences in Rivers. Abbas made this known while addressing members of the house at resumption of plenary from the Easter/Sallah break on Tuesday. According to...
President of Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has urged lawmakers to rise up and meet the expectations of Nigerians. He also urged the lawmakers to be guided by patriotism in the discharge of their legislative duties. Akpabio made the call at the resumption of plenary on Tuesday. He said much had...
Mr Ike Chidolue, immediate past Chairman of the Nigerian-American Public Affairs Committee (NAPAC) Texas, has urged Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to present her evidence backing her claim or quit the senate. Akpoti-Uduaghan, the suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State Governor...
The Senate Committee on Capital Market, on Wednesday, summoned Lafarge Africa Plc over planned divestment of 83.8 per cent majority shares it controls in the cement industry. This is as the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), assured the Senate that the 16.19 per cent share held by the Nigerian...
The Executive Watchdog, a public accountability and governance advocacy group, has cautioned, Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against trivialising the issues between her and Senate President, Godswill Akpabio. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is locked in a conflict with Akpabio over alleged sexual advances, recently issued a public statement in which she satirically...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- The Senate Committee on Education has commended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) surveillance infrastructure at the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Senate Committee Chairman on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Muntari Dandutse lauded the Board when he led a delegation to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has announced a postponement in date of resumption of plenary sittings from April 29 to May 6, 2025. The announcement was contained in an internal memo dated April 20, 2025, addressed to all senators and signed by...
Kogi Police Command on Thursday confirmed that gunmen attacked Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s (PDP-Kogi Central) family residence in Obeiba Community in Okehi Local Government Area. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Miller Dantawaye, who confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Thursday,...
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for ensuring a transparent process on the moves by some constituents to recall the suspended Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the Senate. Chairman of TMG, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani, gave the commendation at a news conference on Monday...
A Public Accountability and Governance Advocacy Group, the Executive Watchdog, has given Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan a seven-day ultimatum to provide evidence of the assassination attempt brought against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The group, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr Fedelis Ella, on Sunday in Abuja, urged security...
The Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja on Friday, restrained Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan; the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and two others from granting media interviews while the suit filed by Natasha is still pending before the court. The new judge, Justice Binta Nyako, gave the order during the hearing...
The Leader of the Senate, Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, has said that the Senate will look into all issues of public concerns relating to the Tax Reform Bills, 2024. He also assured Nigerians that the upper chamber will consider the bills immediately after Eid-El-Fitir and Easter holidays. Bamidele made this...
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central Senatorial District says she will soon present evidence of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. “At the right time and at the right space, I will present the evidence that I have,” the female lawmaker said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme...