The Senate will reduce the import duties waivers proposed for the N19.76trillion 2023 budget with attendant deficit of N12.4trillion. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Solomon Adeola made this known in Abuja on Tuesday, at an interactive session on the says it will reduce the N6 trillion proposed...
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The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Electoral Matters, Sen. Olalekan Mustapha, has assured Nigerians that the conduct of 2023 general elections would be guided by Electoral Act, 2022. Mustapha (APC-Ogun East) gave the assurance on Wednesday when he led other members of the committee on a courtesy visit to...
The Senator, representing Kaduna Central, Sen. Uba Sani, has described media report on purported sponsorship of bill to rename Kaduna State to Zazzau State as a lie from the pit of hell. Sani made the refutal in a statement in Abuja on Monday. The senator expressed dismay at what...
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the name of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, to the Senate for confirmation of his appointment. His request for the confirmation of the appointment of Justice Ariwoola as CJN was contained in a letter that was read on the...
The Senate on Wednesday, passed the Electricity Bill 2022. The bill’s passage was sequel to the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Power. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Gabriel Suswam in his presentation, said the bill sought to among others, provide an Ideal legal and institutional...
The Senate on Tuesday, suspended plenary over the recent death of a lawmaker representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency in Edo, Rep. Jude Ise-Idehen. Ise-Idehen, until his death, was a member of the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The senate, on resumption from its...
The Nigerian High Commission has engaged the services of lawyers in the UK to defend former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu when he appears in court next month. Senate President Ahmed Lawan disclosed this after a closed-door session of the chamber on Wednesday. “I had a personal engagement with...
Lawmakers in the Senate chamber of the National Assembly have commenced the screening of the ministerial nominees recently appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The screening of the nominees is ongoing at a plenary presided over by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan. With less than a year to...
The Senate has resolved to continue with its investigation into the crisis in the Supreme Court despite the resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Lawmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly made the resolution during the plenary on Tuesday following a...
The Senate, on Wednesday at plenary constituted an Ad Hoc Committee to investigate Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) over non-compliance with the Petroleum Act and violation of Joint Venture Agreement entered i with the Federal Government. The Ad Hoc committee was mandated to investigate the Oil Mining Lease granted...
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...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of seven ministerial nominees. The nominees are: Henry Ikechukwu – Abia State, Umana Okon Umana – Akwa-Ibom State; Ekuma Joseph – Ebonyi State; Goodluck Nana Obia – Imo State; Umar Ibrahim Yakub – Kano State; Ademola Adewole Adegorioye...
As was always expected, the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest in the 2023 governorship race in Delta state. His emergence sets the stage for what would likely become one of the most keenly contested races in...
The House of Representatives has passed Section 84(8) of the Electoral Amendment Act, 2022 to allow statutory delegates participate in political parties’ congresses and conventions. The house amended the clause after considering a Bill sponsored by the Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business, Rep. Abubakar Fulata at plenary...
The Senate has amended the Electoral Act 2022, to allow ‘statutory delegates’ to participate and vote in political parties’ conventions, congresses and meetings. This followed the passage of the amendment bill on the act at the Committee of the Whole on Tuesday in Abuja. The bill was sponsored by...
Business mogul, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, an APC aspirant for the Ondo South Senatorial District on Wednesday, picket the party’s N20 million Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at the APC Secretariat, Abuja. Ibrahim, the founder of University of Fortunes, Igbotako, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Senate has passed the Terrorism (Prevention) Act, 2013 bill prohibiting the payment of ransom to kidnappers in Nigeria. The passage followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters at plenary on Wednesday. Presenting the report, Chairman of the Committee,...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Danladi Umar to appear before the Senate in a probe on allegations of misconduct brought against him. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order on Tuesday while delivering judgment in a suit filed by...
The Senate has passed the revised 2022 N17.3trillion budget. This followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on Appropriation at Thursday’s plenary. Presenting the report, Sen. Barau Jibrin, the Chairman of the committee said that the budget was made up of N7 trillion recurrent expenditure and N5...
The Senate has received the Money Laundering Bill and Terrorism Prevention Bill transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and passage. The bills were accompanied by a letter read at plenary on Thursday by Senate President Ahmad Lawan. Buhari, in the letter dated April,12, said the request for the...