The Senate on Tuesday passed a Vote of Confidence on Security Chiefs for their efforts in fighting the security challenges despite the prevailing insecurity in the country Godswill Akpabio, the President of the Senate, said this shortly after a closed-door meeting with the Security Chiefs and the National Security Adviser in Abuja Akpabio maintained that…
Senator Godswill Akpabio, the new 10th Senate President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, has promised that the 10th Senate will surpass the expectations of Nigerians in building a prosperous nation. The former governor of Akwa Ibom state, made the promise while delivering his inaugural speech after his swearing-in Abuja on Tuesday. The Informant247 had earlier reported…
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, said revenue generation and collection remained Nigeria’s biggest challenges, as did the massive revenue losses from oil theft, which “weakens the economy and threatens to plunge it into a coma.” Welcoming his colleagues from a long vacation, Lawan lamented that “revelations about the extent…
Senate President of Nigeria, who’s also a presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Lawan has promised to secure the country, if he becomes the president in 2023. Lawan said he would make great efforts to strengthen the security sector, and unite the country if elected president in 2023. The president of the…
The president of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has not made a secret what transpired between him and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu during their meeting. Mr Lawan who on Sunday, July 7, paid a courtesy visit to Bola Ahmed Tinubu at his Bourdilon home in Ikoyi,…
Nigerians on Thursday expressed divergent opinions on social media after the Senate President allegedly personalised the official Twitter handle meant for the office of the Senate President. It was discovered that Senator Bukola Saraki changed from Senate President of Nigeria (@SPNigeria) to Former Senate President of the 8th Nigerian Senate (@SPNigeria8thSenate). The action which made…
The Senate earlier today, approved N30, 000 as the new national minimum wage, and appealed to the Federal Government to immediately implement the new national minimum wage so as to prevent organised labour from embarking on another strike to demand the payment. The acting Chairman of the Senate ad-hoc committee on National Minimum Wage Bill,…
Pray, dear Kwarans, this season come and go in peace without leaving much friendship in pieces and many relationship in ruins. The statements, assertions and remarks oozing out of the buccal cavities of some political leaders, and apologists at this point in time is best described as divisive, inciting and impolitic. I wouldn’t know, maybe…
…Clerk to the National Assembly denied access to chamber …DSS allegedly grant APC lawmakers access into NASS, deny PDP members …Lawmakers speak, condemn invasion Following the drama ongoing at the two chambers of the National Assembly where men of the Department of State Security Services, DSS, Monday morning, denied some Senators and House of Assembly…
Yesterday Thursday 31st May, 2018, the Kwara South Senator, Dr Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim presented the report of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions on the screening for confirmation of the following persons as Non-Executive Directors of the Board of Central Bank of Nigeria. 1. Professor Ummu Ahmed Jalingo; 2. Professor Justitia…
Senate President Bukola Saraki has today release a total sum of 50million Naira to Magaji/Alagua traditional rulers in Kwara state. The Director General, ABS Mandate Office, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi who represented the Senate President said Saraki had earlier set up a committee to address issue of nonpayment of arrears of the tradition ruler for over…
