The 9th Senate is holding its final sitting and valedictory session in the National Assembly. The session was postponed to Saturday due to a meeting between President Bola Tinubu and National Assembly members-elect. Vice President Kashim Shettima, Oluremi Tinubu, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, and Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege received their certificates of legislative service. … Read more
Mohammed Isa, SA Media to senate president Ahmad Lawan has died. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Mohammed Isa, the Special Assistant on Media to Senate President Ahmad Lawan, is dead. It was gathered that Isa gave up the ghost on Friday following a fatal accident he was involved in along Minna road on Monday. EDITOR’S … Read more
APC Fixes N100m For 2023 Presidential Form, 50M For Governorship. The announcement was made by the party’s national publicity secretary Felix Morka at the party’s ongoing extraordinary emergency meeting of its National Executive Committee. EDITOR’S PICK JUST IN: PDP Chairman, Women Leader Killed As Gunmen Attack Convoy Of Top Lawmaker [PHOTO] BREAKING: IPOB Places Bounty … Read more
APC Crisis Intensifies As Adamu Accuses Serving, Ex-Govs Of Tearing Party Apart. Adamu, in his opening address at the 11th National Executive Committee NEC meeting of the APC ongoing at the Transcorp Hotel in Abuja, said ex and serving governors are working tirelessly to disrupt the unity of the party. EDITOR’S PICK JUST IN: PDP … Read more
The Senate on Tuesday challenged a ruling by a Federal High Court in Abuja barring it from re-amending the Electoral Act 2022 recently signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who made this assertion on the floor at the plenary, said the judiciary cannot stop the National Assembly from performing its constitutionally assigned … Read more
President Buhari said this in a letter sent to the national assembly on Tuesday requesting consideration and approval to accommodate the additional fuel subsidy funding. The letter proposed the amendment of the 2022 budget. Buhari said while N106 billion provided in the supplementary bill would be used as capital expenditure, N43.87billion would be spent on … Read more
The National Assembly is looking to give legislative approval to the Executive loan request to fund the 2021 Appropriation Act before it embarked on a recess in July. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has explained why it is important for the Nigerian government to continue to borrow responsibly to fund critical projects in the … Read more
World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), an annual celebration of press freedom, observed on 3 May, acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom… The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has felicitated with Nigerian journalists on the occasion of the 2021 World Press Freedom Day, saying the National Assembly … Read more
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Armed Forces are expected to take the fight to the insurgents and bandits He made the remark on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers in the Senate confirmed the service chiefs during plenary in the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. The Senate had confirmed … Read more
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has asked supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country to embrace the spirit of unity for the success of the party and good governance. He made the call on Saturday while addressing party supporters shortly after re-validating his membership registration with the APC at Gashua the headquarters of … Read more
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has assured Nigerians that the National Assembly would see to the prudent utilisation of loans taken. He stated this at the State House, Abuja on Thursday when responding to questions from journalists about the Federal Government’s use of ₦3 trillion to service debts in the 2020 budget and President Muhammadu … Read more
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has sworn in the winner of the Cross River North senatorial bye-election, Stephen Odey. Odey could not take his oath of office on Tuesday because of a federal court order halting his swearing-in. However, the legal issue seemed to have been resolved as Senator Lawan, during Wednesday’s plenary, invited him into … Read more
Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday, December 15 swore in four senators recently elected through by-elections in states across the country. The new Senators are Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (Lagos East), Senator Cleopas Moses (Bayelsa Central), Senator Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa West), and Senator Nora Ladi Dadu’ut (Plateau South). READ ALSO:JUST IN: Hamisu Chidari Emerges New … Read more