By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Senate has rescheduled its plenary resumption from April 25 to May 2. The Clerk of the Senate, Mr Chinedu Akubueze, made the announcement in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday. It would be recalled that the Senate had on April 5,...
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The Senate has adopted the Conference Committee report on the Nigeria Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2023. This followed the presentation of the report by the Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Interior, Sen. Seriake Dickson, during Plenary on Tuesday. According to Dickson, both committees in the Senate and House of...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Senate to consider and approve the Nigerian Data Protection Bill sent to it by the Executive. The president’s request is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Alhaji Ahmad Lawan, and read at plenary on Tuesday. “Pursuant to Section 58, sub...
The Senate has set up an ad hoc committee to recover over N6 trillion unpaid ground rate from property owners in the country. This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Yusuf Yusuf (APC-Taraba ) during plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion, Yusuf said that the land use...
The Senate has confirmed the re-appointment of Mr Anthony Ojukwu as Executive Secretary of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the confirmation followed the presentation of the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters during Wednesday’s plenary....
After over 20 years of its formation, pro-workers political organisation, Labour Party (LP) seems to be gradually making inroads into mainstream politics as the party has got six Senate and 34 House of Representatives seats in the February 25 National Assembly (NASS) elections. Relatively obscure in the political arena...
The Cross River chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed in its bid to retain two Senate and six House of Representatives seats in the recently concluded National Assembly (NASS) elections. The opposition party in the state lost the Cross River Central and Cross River South to the...
The Senate on Wednesday at plenary, confirmed President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Mr Solomon Arase as Chairman,Police Service Commission (PSC). Arase’s confirmation was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Committee on Police Affairs. Chairman of the Committee, Sen.Jika Halliru (APC-Bauchi) presented the report. Haillu said Arases’...
The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the withdrawal date of the old naira notes from Jan. 31 to July 31. The upper chamber also urged the CBN to open an exchange window where people that don’t have bank accounts to deposit their old...
The Senate on Wednesday, passed the N21.8 trillion 2023 budget. This followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Appropriation at plenary. Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Jibrin Barau said that the commitee did a thorough job by examining inputs from its...
The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to urgently extend the withdrawal date of old currency notes from Jan. 31, 2023 to June 31. The upper chamber’s resolution was sequel to a point of order raised by Sen. Mohammed Ndume (APC-Borno) during Wednesday’s plenary. The News...
The Senate has passed the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N819.5 billion. The consideration and approval of the budget followed the presentation of the report of the the Senate Joint Committee on the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill during plenary on Wednesday in Abuja. The Bill is titled: “A Bill...
The controversy surrounding the bill to repeal the National Information Technology Development Agency Act continued at the hurriedly arranged joint public hearing by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on ICT and Cyber Security held in the Senate on Friday. Other formalities such as the declaration of hearing...
A clandestine move by the Joint Senate and House Committee on Information Communications Technology, ICT, to pass a controversial bill concerning the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has attracted harsh responses from the industry. Controversy began after an invitation for a public hearing, jointly signed by the Clerks...
After a delayed plenary on Wednesday, the Senate asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to considerably adjust its recently announced cash withdrawal limits in response to the public outcry against the new policy. The upper chamber, in its resolution, also asked its Committee on Banking and Finance to...
The Senate has referred to its Committee on Niger Delta Affairs for screening, the confirmation of the appointment of Lauretta Onochie as the substantive Chairperson, Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Also referred for screening are 14 others as members of the commission. The resolution followed the...
The Senate has postponed its debate on the cash withdrawal policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) till Wednesday, December 14, 2022. This is because of the absence of the Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Finance, Senator Uba Sani, who is away attending the All Progressives...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday offered explanation to Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions on need for the cashless policy, limiting cash withdrawal for individuals at N100,000 and Corporate Bodies N500,000 per week. The policy, as explained by Deputy Governor of CBN on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigeria Navy has debunked reports making the rounds that it indicted the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited of exaggerating figures of crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region. The Navy Director of Information, Commodore, AO Ayo-Vauhhan, stated this in a statement...
The Senate on Wednesday, passed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) N607.9 billion 2022 Appropriation Bill. This followed the adoption of the harmonised report of the Senate and House of Representatives Committee on FCT at plenary. Presenting the bill, the Chairman of the committee, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, said that the...