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Saturday, March 16th, 2024
‘Most people don’t know’, Shehu Sani reveals how lawmakers pad budget Shehu Sani Former Kaduna lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has provided an insight into how members of the National Assembly manipulate Nigeria’s budgets. Recall that the Senate has been enmeshed in a padding scandal following allegations by now-suspended Bauchi Central lawmaker Abdul Ningi that the […]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Budget Padding: ‘We have been stripped naked in the marketplace’ – Adams Oshiomhole By Ikenna Ngere Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole, criticized the budget padding allegations within the Senate on Tuesday. During the Senate session, Senator Oshiomhole shared his views on the N3.7 trillion budget allegation Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, raised. Oshiomhole lamented that […]
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
UPDATED: Senate suspends for three months over N3.7tn budget padding allegation 12th March 2024 The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Population, Abdul Ningi By Adekunle Sulaimon, Tope Omogbolagun The Senate has suspended the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central, Abdul Ningi, for three months. Ningi was suspended after about three hours of debate over his interview in […]
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2024
Senate in uproar over revelation senior senators receive N500m for projects 12th March 2024 Senate By Hannah Johnson There was uproar in the Senate on Tuesday over the revelation that ranking senators received N500 million each for projects. Senator Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe of the People’s Democratic Party representing Cross-River North had revealed during a Senate session […]
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Monday, March 11th, 2024
By Ayomide Emeka Joseph Atedo Peterside, president and founder of Anap Foundation, has slammed the President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, for his comments at the final burial ceremony of the late CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe. Naija News recalls that the Senate president had come under fire for the drama he […]
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Monday, March 11th, 2024
By Ishola Michael Senator representing Bauchi Central in the Senate, Abdul Ningi, has said that from all indications, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu seems not to understand the country and the issues affecting its components, especially the Northern part. The observation was made by Ningi while speaking in a BBC Hause programme monitored in Bauchi on […]
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Governors, Headlines, Legislature, Rivers, Senate
Monday, March 11th, 2024
Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Governor Siminalayi Fubara bickered over politics at the funeral of the former CEO of Access Bank and banking icon, Herbert Wigwe. The funeral service was conducted at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Isiokpo in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Senate President asked the Rivers […]
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
By Olugbenga Ige Some members of the National Assembly have been sacked by the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, while their replacements have taken over their seats in the legislature Notable lawmakers removed from office include the former Adamawa North Senator, Elisha Abbo, the Senate Minority Chief Whip, Darlington Nwokocha; […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Our fear is that Akpabio cannot checkmate the ‘Yorubanisation’ of the financial system – Northern Senators By Justina Otio Fresh reports have indicated that the controversy trailing Senate President, Godswill Akpabio is the suspicion of his incapacity to checkmate what some northern senators are calling the ‘Yorubanisation’ of the country’s financial system and economy. Naija […]
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Elections, Elections 2023, Headlines, Kogi, Legislature, Senate, State News, Today's Politics
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
By Rachel Okporu Fadoju The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has declared that Wednesday’s Election Petition Tribunal judgement overturning the February 25 Kogi Central senatorial election, declaring Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party as the actual winner will not affect the senatorial seats of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Naija News reported that the […]