Barau Jibrin, senator representing Kano north, has asked his colleagues to elect Ahmed Lawan, majority leader, as next senate president. In a statement on Thursday, the senator said Lawan is qualified to preside over the next senate being the most experienced lawmaker in the red chamber, having spent 20 years in the national assembly. Jibrin urged the senators to follow established international [...]
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The race for presidency of the 9th senate, to be inaugurated in June, has already started. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has secured 60 of the 95 seats announced so far, with the winners of the 14 remaining seats still being awaited. The top contender for that position of senate president has to be Ahmad Lawan, senator representing Yobe north [...]
BY HENRY CHUKWU In 2015 President Buhari and APC campaigned with the popular mantra “CHANGE”. The word “Change” spoke personally to Nigerians across, implying that it would no longer be business as usual. It is however pertinent to state that while the naïve amongst us sat back and daydreamed of a government that will deliver the Nigeria of their dreams without [...]
The senate has set up an ad hoc committee to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) alleged diversion of dividends from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) to fund petroleum subsidy. [...]
Three senators, Ahmed Lawan, Ali Ndume and Kabir Marafa, clashed on Tuesday over an ad hoc committee set up to probe a "$3.5 billion subsidy fund" belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Biodun Olujimi, senate minority leader, had sponsored a motion on the need to probe the subsidy recovery fund being "managed by two people". Reacting to the allegation, Ndume said [...]
Ahmed Lawan, senate majority leader, says Nigerians must not be at the receiving end of the ongoing crisis at the national assembly. Addressing state house correspondents after meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja on Monday, Lawan said interest of politicians must not translate to bad fortune for the citizens. He was speaking on the need for the lawmakers to cut [...]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and Ahmad Lawan, senate leader, are currently in a meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja. Lawan, accompanied by Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (senate), arrived a few minutes to 2pm. The meeting started immediately Osinbajo stepped into his office. Enang, at the weekend, had appealed for the reconvening of the senate. He said it was not proper for [...]
Ahmad Lawan, majority leader of the senate, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is still the majority in the upper legislative chamber. He said this in reaction to the defection of 15 senators on Tuesday. Senate President Bukola Saraki had read out a list of lawmakers who defected from the APC to other parties. Among them were senators Rabiu Kwankwaso and Dino Melaye. Speaking with [...]
Ahmed Lawan, senate majority leader, says Donald Trump's confirmation that the US has received $496m from Nigeria for fighter jets has put the issue of impeaching President Muhammadu Buhari to rest. Some members of the house of representatives had called for the impeachment of the president for approving the release of $496 million without consulting the national assembly. But Lawan says the [...]
Ahmed Lawan, senate leader, says the meeting between All Progressives Congress (APC) senators and the national working committee (NWC) reviewed happenings in the party across the country. John Oyegun, national chairman of the APC, led a delegation of NWC members to the senate on Wednesday. Speaking with journalists after the three-hour meeting, Lawan said the APC would set up a committee comprising [...]
Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia south, says the 2018 budget is "totally fictitious". Abaribe said this at the commencement of the debate on budget at the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. The senator said the proposed N8.6 trillion appropriation bill could not be described as a budget of consolidation because "nothing was done" in 2017. He said the assumptions of the budget are [...]
At least 189 groups, which worked for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, have endorsed him for the 2019 election. Abu Ibrahim, leader of the Buhari Support Group (BSG), disclosed this after meeting with Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Friday. He said he led a delegation to Aso Rock to intimate the president on the activities of [...]
Ahmed Lawan, senate majority leader, says most court judgments were far from fair when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled the federal government. He said this on the floor of the senate on Wednesday while reacting to the supreme court judgement which affirmed Ahmed Makarfi as the authentic chairman of the PDP. Lawan, who is of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the [...]
On this day, two ripe years ago Bukola Saraki became the president of the eighth senate in a mesmeric but charged atmosphere. The road to Saraki’s emergence as senate president was treacherous. Intrigues and subterranean plots coalesced in the weeks before his “coronation”. After the results of the national assembly election were announced in April 2015, it became lucid that the All [...]
Ahmed Lawan, senate leader, has disclosed that the national assembly earmarked funds for the construction of a second Abuja airport runway in the 2017 budget. Lawan told state house correspondents on Friday that the project and some other projects were covered from the difference in the $42.5 oil bench mark proposed by the executive and the $44.5 passed by the legislature. He [...]
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