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According reports the Senate, on Wednesday, condemned the Monday sit-at-home in the South East geopolitical zone and asked the Federal Government to collaborate with the Finnish Government and extradite a pro-Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, for prosecution. The upper chamber also resolved to invite the Minister of Foreign Affairs (when appointed) …

The Senate has called on the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to immediately suspend the World Bank funded NMMP Phase 2 in order to undertake a comprehensive review of the procurement criteria to prioritize local manufacturing and assembling. The Senate also mandated TCN …

After 50 days in office, President Bola Tinubu has sent the list of his ministerial nominees to the Senate, and to be read out today by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. The Guardian gathered that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Magaji Tambuwal, received the letter containing the …

The Senate has commenced the process of confirmation of the recently appointed Service Chiefs, as earlier requested by President Bola Tinubu in a letter he wrote to the Senate. Tinubu had on Tuesday this week, asked the nation’s apex legislative Assembly, to confirm the appointment of the new Service Chiefs. …

The Senate has called on the executive arm of government through the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to intervene and include the rehabilitation of Umuahia-Umudike-Ikot-Ekpene, Aba-Ossisioma to Port-Harcourt Roads in the planned nationwide repair. It mandated the Committee on Works (when constituted) to investigate the award of the contracts …

Senate has called on the National Emergency Management (NEMA) and the Ecological Fund Office to implement a resettlement plan for communities facing serious gully erosion and flood The Senate also expressed concern over the continuous loss of life and property occasioned by gullies and floodwaters and charged the agencies responsible …

The Senate has asked the Federal Government to review the concessioning of the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The Senate also condemned the concessioning process of both facilities, insisting there were shaddy deals involved in the exercise.   The Senate decision came …

President Bola Tinubu is currently meeting with the former Senate President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Chief Pius Anyim and a one time spokesman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Both Anyim and Metuh, who was a former …

FORMER speaker of federal House of Representatives and immediate past governor of Sokoto state senator Aminu Tambuwal loses out as Mwadkwon, Plateau north senator, becomes minority leader. Simon Mwadkwon, senator representing Plateau north, has beaten Aminu Tambuwal, senator representing Sokoto south, to become minority leader of the upper legislative chamber. …

After the struggle for majority principal offices in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, new leaders have emerged. The leaders, who are all of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), emerged through consensus, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio. Akpabio made the announcement on Tuesday when the senate resumed …