Tag: Senator Abdul Ningi

Senate Minority leadership not imposed, and I have doing my work very well – Sen Abba Moro replies Senator Ningi

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The Senate Minority Leader, Comrade Abba Moro on Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction with the allegation by the senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District and Chairman, Northern Senators’ Forum, Sen.Abdul Ningi that the leadership of the Senate Minority Caucus of the 10th Senate was imposed on the caucus and that the leadership is not doing its job of opposition.   Senator Moro, while making his contribution on the floor of the Senate to a Motion moved by Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Adeola over Senator Ningi’s allegation of budget padding…

Alleged Budget Padding: Ningi resigns as Northern Senators’ forum Chairman

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Senator Abdul Ningi, representing Bauchi Central at the National Assembly, has resigned his position as the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum.   The lawmaker tendered his resignation from the forum shortly after he was suspended by the Senate over his allegation that three trillion naira was unjustly inserted into the twenty-twenty four budget.   Budget padding, as it is called in Nigeria is mostly an underhand inflation of monetary appropriations and spending plans.   In a letter to the Secretary of the forum, Senator Abdul Ningi explained that he…

THE FACTS ABOUT 2024 BUDGET

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Following the false claims made by Senator Abdul Ningi, representing Bauchi Central, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government is operating two versions of the 2024 budget, we consider it appropriate to inform Nigerians that there is no truth whatsoever in the allegation.   Acting under the banner of Northern Senators’ Forum, Senator Ningi, falsely claimed in an interview he granted BBC Hausa Service, that the National Assembly debated and passed N25 Trillion as 2024 budget and not the N28.7 Trillion that is being implemented by the Federal Government.  …

Northern Senators Forum condemn spate of military coup in West African sub-region ….. Urge President Tinubu to restore electricity supply to Niger Republic

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The Northern Senators Forum (NSF)has condemned in a very strong terms the spate of military intervention in the democratic space in West African sub-region, especially the coup recently occured in Niger Republic. The Northern Senators stated this in a Communique issued in Abuja on Tuesday at National Assembly Complex, Abuja. The NSF called on the military junta in Niger Republic to soften the relationship with the rest of ECOWAS Community by setting free deposed President Mohammed Bazoum and his immediate family to freely choose the country of his choice to…