Alhaji Abdul’aziz Yari, Zamfara West Senator-elect, has advised that religious, tribal and ethnic sentiments should be eschewed in the choice of the President of the Senate of the in-coming 10th National Assembly. He gave the advice in his congratulatory message to the 109 Senators-elect from the 36 states of...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has cleared the air over the Senate’s probe of its budgets for 2021 and 2022. In a statement of clarification, the NDDC Managing Director urged the public to avoid jumping to...
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Sen. Ayogu Eze (Enugu) and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). This followed the adoption of the report of senate Committee on National Planning and Economic Affairs at plenary on Wednesday. Others confirmed as Federal...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of AbdulHakeem Mobolaji and six others as members of Governing Board of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC). This followed the adoption of the report of senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institution at plenary on Tuesday. Those confirmed included...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has urged the Senate Ad hoc Committee investigating the N6 trillion unpaid ground rent to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF). Fashola said this when the Senate ad hoc committee chaired by Sen. Adamu Aliero (PDP-Kebbi) visited...
The Senate has joined the House of Representatives and the ECOWAS Parliament to appeal to the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London, for leniency in the sentencing of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. The Senate’s decision to appeal for clemency followed a motion raised by Senator Chukwuka...
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,...
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...