Aniekan Bassey, Eking Sampson, Francis Fadahunsi and Olubiyi Fadeyi, four senators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Godswill Akpabio, president of the senate, read their defection notices during Wednesday’s plenary. Bassey and Sampson represent Akwa Ibom North East and Akwa Ibom South, respectively, […]
THE Senate, on Tuesday, passed the 2018 budget estimates through the second reading after an exhaustive debate on the general principles of the budget estimates. The lawmakers, who did most of the debate up to Thursday last week, voted to pass the appropriation bill through the second reading on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, the lawmakers […]
The Senate on Tuesday approved a $5.5 billion external loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari. The president had in a letter on Tuesday, October 10, sought the Senate’s approval for $3bn external loan and $2.5bn Eurobond or Diaspora bond in the international market. Buhari explained that the bonds would be channelled towards funding of the […]
Others invited by the Senate in connection to the unpaid sum are the Director Generals of Directorate of State Security (DSS), Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and National Council on Privatisation (NCP) Does everyone want a piece of Nigeria’s top cop? The invitation was issued on Sunday by the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Alleged Fraudulent […]
The Senate has commenced investigation of the circumstances surrounding the return of embattled ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, and his reinstatement into the civil service Embattled ex-Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, is a man in the eye of the storm. 24 hours after […]
The Senate Committee on Information Communication Technology and Cybercrime has urgedthe public to attend the first National Plenary conference on ICT, digital literacy and Cyber-threat. According to the Director of Communications for the conference, Bayero Agabi, “The aim of the event is to bring together end-users, practitioners and educators, researchers to exchange and share experiences […]
A former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday, got a reprieve as the Senate Committee investigating the petitions against the freezing of her accounts, asked that they should be unfrozen. The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, after subjecting the management of four different banks, where the first lady had accounts, to questions […]
The Chief-whip of the House of Senate, Professor Sola Adeyeye has denied the purported claim that the APC Caucus in the Senate was plotting to impeach the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. It will be recalled that the APC Caucus in the Senate last week removed its leader, Ali Ndume and subsequently announced Ahmed Lawan […]