By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has congratulated the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Sen. Kashim Shettima on their election victory. Lawan stated this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by his Special Adviser (Media), Mr Ola Awoniyi. He said that...
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Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, says he owe his re-election into the National Assembly to the support of the people of Yobe-North. Lawan said this when he received a congratulatory card from the Senate Press Corps on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the people of Yobe North...
The supreme court on Monday affirmed Ahmed Lawan, senate president, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Yobe north. In a majority judgment delivered by Justice Centus Nweze, the apex court allowed the appeal filed by the APC against Bashir Machina’s candidature. The lead majority judgment of...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has expressed optimism that the 2023 general elections would be the best ever in Nigeria. Lawan expressed the optimism on Tuesday in Abuja when he received a delegation of the European Union election observers and former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga who paid separate courtesy...
The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the withdrawal date of the old naira notes from Jan. 31 to July 31. The upper chamber also urged the CBN to open an exchange window where people that don’t have bank accounts to deposit their old...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to “promptly cut the outrageous National Assembly budget of N228.1bn, including the N30.17bn severance payments and inauguration costs for members (the highest ever).”...
The Senate on Wednesday, passed the N21.8 trillion 2023 budget. This followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Appropriation at plenary. Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Jibrin Barau said that the commitee did a thorough job by examining inputs from its...
The controversy surrounding the bill to repeal the National Information Technology Development Agency Act continued at the hurriedly arranged joint public hearing by the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on ICT and Cyber Security held in the Senate on Friday. Other formalities such as the declaration of hearing...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan says the Senate decided to shifted the passage of the 2023 budget to Dec.28, due to some challenges. Lawan said this at the commencement of plenary on Thursday against the backdrop of an earlier announcement that the Bill would be passed before the...
The Senate has referred to its Committee on Niger Delta Affairs for screening, the confirmation of the appointment of Lauretta Onochie as the substantive Chairperson, Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Also referred for screening are 14 others as members of the commission. The resolution followed the...
Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has cautioned Nigerians against vote- trading in 2023 general election. Lawan said this when he received members of an election observation group, Polling Unit Ambassadors of Nigerian (PUAN) on a sensitisation road walk at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja. The Senate President, who was...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed Bashir Sheriff Machina as the authentic All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District. The court upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State which held that the President of the senate Ahmad Lawan,...
Malam Mohammed Isa, the Special Assistant to the President of the Senate on Media, died on Friday, an official has said. Mr Ola Awoniyi, the Special Adviser on Media to Senate President, said in a statement on Saturday in Abuja that Isa died while undergoing treatment for injuries sustained...
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. At the resumption of plenary on Wednesday, September 21, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Ibrahim Gobir, moved two motions for the upper chamber to screen Ariwoola. His motions were approved by the legislators when they were...
Sen. Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano Central) on Wednesday at plenary formally announced his detection from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Shekarau had on Aug. 29, defected along with his supporters to PDP from NNPP, on issues bordering on alleged unfair treatment by the...
The Senate will screen the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on Sept 21. President of Senate,Dr. Ahmad Lawan made the disclosure, while delivering his opening remark at the resumption of plenary on Wednesday. Lawan also said Senate would receive the 2023 budget estimates from President...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Saturday separately held closed-door meetings with ex-Nigerian leaders retired Generals Abdulsalam Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida,at their uphill residences in Minna, Niger. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reliably learnt that their meetings centred on the unity of the country. Lawan arrived in Minna...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no senatorial candidate for Yobe north and Akwa Ibom north-west districts for the 2023 elections. Festus Okoye, INEC spokesperson, said this on Sunday in an interview on Channels Television. In June, INEC had excluded Ahmad Lawan,...
President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan and North East caucus of the APC has congratulated Sen. Kashim Shettima on his nomination as 2023 vice presidential candidate of the party. Shettima is running mate to APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu. Lawan in a statement on behalf of the...
The Nigerian High Commission has engaged the services of lawyers in the UK to defend former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu when he appears in court next month. Senate President Ahmed Lawan disclosed this after a closed-door session of the chamber on Wednesday. “I had a personal engagement with...