Senate embarks on nine weeks recess
The Senate will reconvene on September 14.
QueenEsther Iroanusi covers the National Assembly for PREMIUM TIMES. She is a 2018 Female Reporters Leadership Programme fellow of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. She has a degree in French. She can be reached on Twitter @QueenExtha
The Senate will reconvene on September 14.
The passage of the bill was preceded by quarrels and disagreement among the lawmakers leading to a rowdy session.
A total of 52 senators voted in favour while 28 voted against.
The senators were already having the clause-by-clause consideration of the bill when they arrived at the section dealing with electronic...
President Muhammadu Buhari had in May asked the National Assembly to approve the loan.
The Petroleum Industry Bill was recently passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives.
In the amended bill obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, INEC is also given the powers to review results declared by an...
If signed into law, the commission will investigate electoral offences, prosecute electoral offenders and maintain records of all persons investigated...
There were reports that the leadership of the National Assembly had doctored some sections of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill,...
Ms Onochie, who appeared before the Senate Committee on INEC, was eventually rejected by the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday.
The Senate on Tuesday rejected the nominations of Lauretta Onochie and Sani Adam as national commissioner of INEC.
President Buhari's nomination of Ms Onochie triggered outrage among Nigerians, with many asking the president to withdraw her nomination on...
The rejection of Ms Onochie's controversial appointment was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on...
Mr Sani, a former senator, dumped APC for the PRP in October 2018.
A total of N4.8 billion was allocated to NIA to monitor in the 2021 Supplementary Budget approved by the National...
The Senate acted on the report of the Auditor General of the Federation.
Lauretta Onochie had claimed during her screening by the Senate on Thursday that she was no longer partisan.
Controversy is trailing the primary as INEC and aspirants insist the event did not hold.
Ms Onochie was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari for the position of national commissioner of INEC in October 2020.
The appointment of Ms Onochie' by President Muhammadu Buhari last October as a national commissioner of INEC triggered outrage across...
Governors of the 17 southern states, under the aegis of the Southern Governors Forum met in Lagos on Monday during...
In April, the National Assembly had approved loan request of $1.5billion and €995million for the Buhari administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari had, on June 22, transmitted the budget to the Senate, requesting for its approval.
The official said the N2 trillion was remitted to the Consolidated Revenue Fund from 2007 till date.
The bill seeks to prevent donkeys from going into extinction.
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