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Deputy Senate President Jibrin Barau, on Wednesday presiding over the plenary, has sworn in Amos Yohanna as the new Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District. Yohanna, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party replaced Abbo, who was sacked by the Appeal Court last week Monday. INEC had declared Elisha Abbo of the APC as […]
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio said members of the Senate are bound to disagree but it cannot lead to a public fight. This follows the disagreement between the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume on Tuesday during their plenary section. Ndume cited a point from the rule book […]
Chief whip of the Nigeria Senate, Ali Ndume walked out of the red chamber in anger on Tuesday after Senate President, Godswill Akpabio ruled him out. Ndume anger was a result of him citing order 54 of the standing rules to draw the attention and manner in which Akpabio presides over affairs of […]
The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in the United States has called for Senator Godswill Akpabio’s resignation over an alleged lack of the Senate President not handling affairs of the upper chamber well enough. The group alleged that President Bola Tinubu planted Akpabio as Senate President of the 10th National Assembly and that Akpabio […]
President Bola Tinubu has sent three additional names of Ministerial nominees to the Senate. The nominees are Jamila Bio, Balarebe Abbas and Olawale Olawande. In the letter read by Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Balarebe Abbas will be replacing former Kaduna governor, Nasir El-Rufai These new nominees are coming barely a few months after […]
The nomination process of some of the nominees sent by President Bola Tinubu to the National Assembly had some drama attached to it yesterday, as former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai; the former deputy governor of Taraba State, Sani Abubakar Danladi, and Stella Okotete from Delta State were dropped from the approved list. This […]
The former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, has been released from the Department of State Services, after days of grilling. This was disclosed by a close source to the former governor on Sunday. “His Excellency has been released by DSS after about days of detention by the DSS,” the source said. An […]
The Senate has granted more time to an ad-hoc committee it constituted to investigate alleged unauthorized spending by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The committee, chaired by Yusuf Yusuf was constituted last week to investigate transactions allegedly carried out by the NDDC under its 2021 and 2022 budgets without the approval of the […]
The Abuja chapter of the Urhobo Youth Council has enjoined senators to vote for Senator Godswill Akpabio to emerge president of the 10th Senate. President of the council and ex-militant leader, General Aghogho Peter in a statement to the Vanguard said Senator Akpabio would bring his wealth of experience as a former senator, governor […]
The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has revealed the reason the next senate president of Nigeria should come from the South East in the tenth National Assembly. In a statement signed by his media aide, Primate Ayodele revealed that if the next senate president doesn’t come from the Igbo division, […]
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