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Senate confirms Aminu Maida as EVC NCC

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The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Aminu Maida as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC).   This followed the presentation and adoption of a report of the Committee on Communication at the Committee of the Whole on Thursday.     The committee is led by the Chairman, Senator Bilbis Ikra (APC- Zamfara).     Presenting the report, Ikra urged the Senate to consider the request of President Bola Tinubu for the confirmation of Maida for appointment as NCC Vice Chairman.   He said the…

Senate to empower NIDCOM with enhanced budgetary allocation

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Senator Victor Umeh,Chairman, Senate Committee on Diaspora Affairs and Non-Governmental Organizations has assured of the Senate support to the commission in achieving its set objectives. Umeh gave the assurance when the committee met with Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of NIDCOM and top management staff in a maiden interactive session on the activities of the Commission. The Senator alongside other members of the Committee like Sen. Seriake Dickson, Sen. Ibrahim Dakwambo, expressed surprise with the meagre budgetary allocation to the Commission despite its visible activities and interventions in the diaspora affairs.…

BREAKING: Senate approves Tinubu’s N2.17tr supplementary budget request

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Nigeria’s Senate on Thursday, November 2, approved the request for a N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded by President Bola Tinubu after a third reading.   Prior to the bill’s adoption, the Senate accepted the report from the synchronised sessions of the red and green chambers about the 2023 Supplementary Appropriations Bill, which was provided by Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (APC Ogun West), the chairman of the Appropriations Committee.           More details later…..  

Senate swears in Senator Amos Yohanna

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Senator Amos Yohanna, (PDP-Adamawa- North), on Wednesday at plenary, took his oath of office and allegiance.   Sen. Yohanna’s oath of allegiance followed his declaration as winner of the Feb. 26 senatorial election by an Appeal Court.   The Clerk of the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze, administered the oath and allegiance on Yohanna at plenary on Wednesday.   Yohanna, who now represents Adamawa- North, had challenged his election before the election tribunal, which dismissed his application as lacking in merit.   Sen.Yohanna had sued Sen. Elisha Abbo of the APC and…

Senate confirms Olukoyede as EFCC chairman

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The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Ola Olukoyede as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission—EFCC. It also confirmed the nomination of Mrs Halima Shehu as the National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency—NSIPA. The resolution of the red chamber followed its screening of the nominees in a Committee of the Whole, in Abuja on Wednesday. Recall that President Ahmed Bola Tinubu had on Tuesday in a letter requested the Senate to consider approving the nominees for appointment.

JUST IN: Senate withholds confirmation of Okotete, El-Rufai, Danladi ….. Confirms 45 nominees as Ministers

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The Nigerian Senate today, put the ministerial confirmation of the former governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai, Stella Okotete and Abubakar Danladi on hold as they were still undergoing security clearance. This was coming after the Senate on Monday concluded the screening of 45 of the 48 ministerial nominees of President Bola Tinubu, confirming them as cabinet members after a week of long interrogation. The confirmation came over a week after Tinubu’s transmitted a 28-member list to the red chamber for confirmation on July 27. The Senate has already screened…

Drama as Senate suspends Festus Keyamo’s ministerial screening

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The Senate has been hit by controversy over the screening of Festus Keyamo, a ministerial nominee. The controversy has led the Chamber to dissolve into executive session after the Senate leader, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi moved the motion Before the pandemonium, the nominee was asked to address the Chamber to explain his profile and give reasons why he should be a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. After his address, Senator Darlington Nwokocha (Labour Party) representing Abia Central Senatorial District raised a point of Order. He drew the attention of…

Senate screen El-rufai amidst alleged N32biliion fraud

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Senators from Kaduna State, who are all members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday expressed their support for nomination of the former Governor of the State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai during his screening on the floor of the Senate. El-Rufai was listed as number three to be screened by the lawmakers alongside his colleagues amidst tension and uncertainty as a result of a petition which trailed his nomination on Thursday last week, when the Ministerial list was unveiled by the Senate President, Godswill Obot Akpabio. What further deepened agitation…

Senate expresses satisfaction over Ministerial nominee, Okotete’s laudable achievements in NEXIM Bank

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The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, acknowledged the laudable achievements of the Executive Director (Business Development) of Nigerian Export and Import Bank (NEXIM), Hon. Stella Okotete, in growing the non oil exports and business fortunes of the Bank. The commendation came after the Senator representing Delta Central, Senator Ede Dafinone moved a motion at the ongoing ministerial screening exercise, urged his colleagues to allow Ms. Okotete take a bow and leave. Hon. Okotete, former National Women Leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and currently serving as ED Business Development…

Let The Masses Breathe: Senate carpets Utomi over assault on Akpabio

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The Senate has described as misplaced, a comment credited to a chieftain of the Labour Party, Professor Pat Utomi, over the decision of the Senate to stop the planned increase of electricity tariffs which would further increase the suffering of the masses.   A statement issued by the Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of the Senate, Yemi Adaramodu, on Sunday in Abuja said, “the Senate is alarmed at the insidious misinterpretation enunciated by some political surrealists, who always leave the causes of their troubles to look for unnecessary scapegoats.  …