Senate

The Senate has once again asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for the stoppage of the use of old naira notes from January 31 till July 31, 2023. With one week to the deadline for the termination of the use…

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has declared the Senate is ready to approve the N23.7tn debt restructuring request made by the President, Major General, Muhammadu Buhari, (Retd.),  in December last year. The senate also blamed the…

Senate has said that it would adjourn plenary next week to allow lawmakers to have time for campaigns for the forthcoming elections. The senate had just resumed plenary from a three-week break after it adjourned plenary on December…

Ahmad Lawan, the president of the Senate, urged Nigerians to take advantage of the chances offered to participate actively in the ongoing election process in his message for the new year. Read Also: 2023: Tinubu Denies Alliance With…

The Senate on Wednesday has turned down  the request by President Muhammadu Buhari, to restructure the N22.7tn Ways and Means advances collected by the Federal Government from the Central Bank of Nigeria. The lawmakers turned down…

The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to swiftly push back the deadline for obsolete Naira notes to be withdrawn from circulation from January 31 to June 30, 2023. Sen. Mohammed Ndume (APC-Borno) raised a point of order at…

Senate has postponed the implementation of the 2022 budget from 31 December to 31 March, 2023. The lawmakers extended the budget implementation shortly after the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday, read a request for an…

The Senate has postponed the passage of the 2023 budget until Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. The lawmakers also postponed the passage of the Finance Bill till December 28th. Senate President Ahmad Lawan made these announcements…

Senate on Wednesday gave the Ministry of Interior 24 hours to defend N700m collected from Service Wide Votes for the monitoring of Ondo and Edo governorship elections. From the record, the money was released in two batches, N400m for…

Senate has confirmed the appointment of the president’s Special Assistant on New Media, Lauretta Ifeanyi-Onochie, as the substantive Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. The Senate Tuesday at the plenary also…

The Senate has referred to its Committee on Niger Delta Affairs for screening and the confirmation of the appointment of Lauretta Onochie as the substantive Chairperson of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the…

Senate has threatened to withhold the 2023 Capital Budget of 100 Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies until they answer the queries raised against them by the Auditor General for the Federation. The Senate President, Ahmad…

The Senate has set up an ad hoc committee to carry out investigation into the alleged uneven disbursement of half a trillion naira loan to the six geo-political zones by the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN). The resolution was…

Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, has disclosed that the ministry cannot carry out its functions efficiently with the N3.5bn allocated to it in the 2023 Appropriations Bill. Dingyadi, while defending the budget proposed…

The Senate Committee on Army has assured the Nigerian Army of continuous support in its efforts to address the myriad of security challenges bedeviling the country. The Chairman of the Senate Committee, Sen. Ali Ndume gave the…