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The Senate today approved the sum of ten billion naira loan refund for Kogi State amid stiff resistance from the opposition senators as Committee on Local and Foreign Loans submitted its report on the issue. Chairman of the Committee said necessary findings conducted by his panel showed that due process was followed by the Kogi […]
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff is to probe the alleged extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian Custom Service since the closure of Nigeria’s land borders The resolution was sequel to a motion titled: “The Need to condemn the incessant excesses and the recent extra-judicial killings of people by men of the Nigerian Customs […]
All things being equal, the number of political parties participating in elections in the country would be reduced from ninety one to five through legislation. This was the position of the 9th Senate in yesterday’s plenary at a meeting with the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, led by its chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu. […]
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is advocating the arrest and prosecution of foreigners or anyone engaged in the illegal mining of the country’s mineral resources. Lawan stated this after considering a motion on the need to check illegal mining activities in the country, sponsored by Ya’u Sahabi Alhaji and thirty-two other senators, seeking the revamping of […]
Kogi State Assembly election petition tribunal today sacked Senator Dino Melaye as the Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district. In a judgment by a three-man panel led by Justice Anthony Chijioke, the tribunal ordered for a fresh election in the senatorial district. The candidate of the All Progressives Congress Senator Smart Adeyemi had approached the […]
It is no longer news that the Nigerian Senate has approved N30,000 as the new official minimum wage. According to reports, the approval came subsequent to the submission of the report of the ad hoc committee set up to review the minimum wage. Meanwhile, the committee was headed by Senator Francis Alimikhena. However, the decision […]
SENATE For failing to stem the killings attributed to herdsmen across the country, Nigerian senators have called for the sack of Nigeria’s military chiefs and appointment of new security chiefs who can introduce new strategies to stem the ongoing slaughter of the citizens. Speaking during a debate on the reported killings of scores of villagers […]
NEPAL Nepalese government has objected a recent report released by the European Union’s Election Observation Mission regarding the country’s parliamentary and provincial elections held in November and December, last year. Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that the report has undermined the successful holding of the smooth, peaceful and impartial elections and made unwarranted comments […]
BILL Indications have emerged that Senators have begun moves to override President Buhari’s veto to the new amendment of the Electoral Act which seeks to re-order the sequence of the polls during general elections. Reports say that lawmakers from both chambers of the National assembly have commenced the process of getting members to actualize it, […]
SENATE JAMB The Senate has resolved to investigate the low remittance by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board into the federation account before 2016. The resolution was sequel to the adoption of a motion under matter of urgent public importance, moved by Senator Dino Melaye. Moving the motion, Melaye said that JAMB had paid fifty […]
