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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over the session, Senate President Godswill Akpabio initially indicated that the request for division had been withdrawn.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...
Okafor Vivian Nkiruka -
House of Representatives

Senate in disarray...

There was uproar on the floor of the Senate on Thursday over the mode of transmission of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission...
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INEC

SAN confirmed as...

Despite petitions brought against Sani Mohammed Adam, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), he has been confirmed as a commissioner of the Independent National...
Salim Sani -
House of Representatives

PDP appoints Abdullahi...

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appointed Senator Abdullahi Ibrahim Danbaba (Sokoto South) as the new Deputy Minority...
Salim Sani -
House of Representatives

Senate rejects motion...

The House of Representatives has shut down a motion asking the Federal Government to declare Bauchi State as an oil-producing state. A member from Bauchi...
Salim Sani -
Law

Senate to sign...

A member of the House of Representatives, Rep Samuel Onuigbo (APC-Abia) has said that a bill for an act for the mainstreaming of climate...
Salim Sani -
Law

Senate to pass...

The Senate will, on Thursday, pass the Electoral Act (Amendment) 2021 into law. The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), chaired by Senator...
Salim Sani -
House of Representatives

Insecurity: Details of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has told members of the National Assembly that his regime is ready to use everything within its powers to end insecurity...
Neptune Prime -
INEC

Senate confirms five...

Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos Five nominees as Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were on Tuesday confirmed by the Senate. The Senate rejected...
Fatima Gimba -
Police

Police Trust Fund:...

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of N74,773,601,916 billion as the 2021 budget of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund. The approval followed the...
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