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The Senate has granted approval for President Bola Tinubu to secure $6 billion in external loans, clearing the way for fresh borrowing to address fiscal gaps and fund rehabilitation work at Nigeria’s busiest seaports. The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, chaired by Senator…
President Bola Tinubu has requested the National Assembly to approve an upward revision of the 2026 Appropriation Bill by N9 trillion, raising the proposed budget from N58.4 trillion to N67.4 trillion. The request was contained in a letter read on the Senate floor on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, during…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally submitted the 2026 statutory budget of the Federal Capital Territory Administration to the Nigerian Senate, seeking legislative approval for an estimated N1.9 trillion spending plan focused on infrastructure, healthcare, education, and poverty reduction programmes. Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the President’s letter on the chamber floor during Tuesday’s plenary…
President Bola Tinubu has finally asked the Senate to dismantle the federation’s centralised policing model. Speaking at an interfaith dinner in Abuja, the President urged lawmakers to amend the 1999 Constitution to permit subnational police forces. The shift reflects a grim admission: the federal government can no longer secure the hinterlands on its own. Decades…
Legal experts and stakeholders are weighing in on President Bola Tinubu’s recent executive order that halts revenue deductions by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other agencies, highlighting tensions between presidential authority and legislative supremacy under Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. The directive, aimed at curbing what the administration views as excessive deductions from oil…
Abuja will host a gathering of Nigeria’s political and religious elite next Sunday as the Christian Legislators Fellowship of the National Assembly commissions a new 750-capacity chapel, a project born out of longstanding calls for equal religious spaces within the legislative grounds. The dedication ceremony, set for March 1, 2026, underscores the push for…
Nigeria’s National Assembly is rarely accused of moving too slowly when money is on the table. Yet, the decision to postpone plenary resumption from February 24th to March 5th suggests a rare outbreak of diligence. The official reason is the need for committees to conclude budget defense sessions with government agencies. The unofficial reality is…
A tense and disorderly session gripped the House of Representatives on Tuesday as lawmakers moved to rescind and recommit the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2025, suspending ongoing budget defence sessions to address what Speaker Tajudeen Abbas described as matters that would fundamentally shape Nigeria’s 2027 general elections. The emergency legislative session, which drew members…
The National Assembly has announced that both the Senate and the House of Representatives will reconvene plenary sessions on Tuesday, February 17, 2026. The announcement was made by the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. Kamoru Ogunlana, in a statement issued on Sunday. “I am directed to inform all Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members…
Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, has declared that the latest amendment to the Electoral Act has fundamentally altered the legal architecture governing Nigerian elections, asserting that mandatory electronic transmission of results now renders rigging impossible under the law. Appearing on ARISE Television on Wednesday, Nwaebonyi articulated the Senate’s position on the…
