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Senate adjusts sitting arrangement, reallocates seats to ranking lawmakers
The senators, upon resumption of plenary last Tuesday, complained that the seats allocated to them in the renovated chamber did ...
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The senators, upon resumption of plenary last Tuesday, complained that the seats allocated to them in the renovated chamber did ...
The National Assembly increased the budget from N27.5 trillion presented by President Bola Tinubu in November to N28.7 trillion.
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The Senate increased the budget from N27.5 trillion presented by President Bola Tinubu in November to N28. 7 trillion.
Mr Akpabio defeated his lone challenger, Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor of Zamfara State.
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The Senate resolved at an executive session to set up a committee to engage relevant MDAs for details of the ...
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The lawmakers were considering the president's request on "ways and means advances" during plenary when angry lawmakers disrupted the session
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President Muhammadu Buhari had in a letter to the National Assembly last week asked that the additional budget of N819,536,937,813 ...
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Ms Ahmed had on Tuesday said the federal government will remove fuel subsidy and replace it with a monthly N5,000 ...
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President Muhammadu Buhari had in July forwarded the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) to ...
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The lawmakers said within the last five to six years, CBN had not contributed anything.
Mr Muruako has been acting as FRC chairman for seven years without board members.
The government directly deducts revenue from the accounts of about 60 agencies, a practice the Senate finance committee described as ...
The lawmakers maintained the exchange rate of N379 per dollar.
The Senate panel also directed SEC to unfailingly remit N300 million into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) by next Thursday
The Senate is probing the dwindling status of the Excess Crude Account
The lawmakers will resume plenary on July 2