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Rowdy session as Senate approves...

Rowdy session as Senate approves 2026 electoral...

National Assembly reconvenes, may shift...

National Assembly reconvenes, may shift 2027 Presidential...

Rowdy session as Senate approves 2026 electoral act amendment

Rowdy session as Senate approves 2026 electoral act amendment The Senate of Nigeria on Tuesday passed the Electoral Act, 2022 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2026, after a tense and heated plenary marked by sharp disagreements over key provisions. Proceedings were briefly disrupted during clause-by-clause consideration of the bill when Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe demanded a division on Clause 60. Presiding over the session, Senate President Godswill Akpabio initially indicated that the request for division had been withdrawn. However, opposition lawmakers objected, insisting the matter was still valid. Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, citing Order...
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Local

Senate passes sexual...

In a bid to end all forms of sexual assault and harassment by lecturers in tertiary institutions, the Nigerian Senate has passed a bill...
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House of Representatives

Reps support Senate’s...

Reps support Senate's call on Buhari to banish bandits in Nigeria The Nigeria House of Representatives has reached out to the Senate’s earlier call for...
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Business & Economy

Buhari seeks Senate’s...

Despite public outcry over incessant borrowing by the current administration, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, has requested the Senate to approve $4 billion and...
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Arts, Culture & Tourism

How Senator Rochas...

Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos Shortly after the pronouncement of a High Court in Owerri on Monday, ordering former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha to...
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Nation

Senate lists conditions...

The Nigerian Senate has listed conditions for the creation of additional states in Nigeria. The National Assembly Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution...
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Local

Why we voted...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has advanced reasons to justify the position taken by the Senate on the electronic transmission of election results. The...
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House of Representatives

How Reps passed...

The House of Representatives on Friday adopted the Conference Committee Report on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), voting 3 per cent for host communities...
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Columns

Lauretta Onochie as...

Conversation with Azu The refusal of the Senate to confirm Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee as national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission...
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Local

Senator Abiru commiserates...

Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, a Senator representing Lagos East in the National Assembly, has commiserated with the family of late Mrs...
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