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16 Aug
Sir: President Bola Tinubu is indeed a product of gifted insults! Tinubu is providentially and undoubtedly fulfilling the envisioned progressive agendas of the late Chief MKO Abiola and Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
15 Aug
A firm, Melka West Africa Limited has called on the National Assembly to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop harassing and intimidating its Managing Director, Mrs. Elsie Uwaka over a civil matter involving the firm, First Bank of Nigeria Plc and the Nigerian Navy.[
5 Aug
A coalition of Civil Society Groups, led by Policy Advocacy and Integrity Network Nigeria, has called on the Senate to ensure due diligence in the final confirmation of ministerial nominees.
4 Aug
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will conduct four bye-elections into National Assembly seats recently declared vacant by lawmakers nominated for ministers by President Bola Tinubu. The Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made this disclosure at the 2023 Post Election Review meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in Lagos on Friday. Yakubu…
21 Jul
After raised hopes, it was an anti-climax yesterday as the Senate failed to announce the arrival of the list of Ministerial nominees reportedly submitted by the Presidency.
15 Jul
The Speaker House of Representatives, Abbas Tajuddeen, on Saturday in Zaria said the 10th assembly would revisit the bill seeking constitutional....
15 Jul
The National Peace Advocate (NPA), a civil society group, has commended the National Assembly....
12 Jul
Barring a change of mind by the beneficiaries, no fewer than 14 sitting senators, including the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, will draw pensions and other benefits worth N5.6 billion from their states, for the duration of the 10th Senate.
9 Jul
After its inauguration on June 13, the 10th Senate adjourned until July 4. The resumption of legislative activities, earlier in the week, however, saw the emergence of new principal officers, signaling that the Red Chamber was now in full swing.
6 Jul
Three members of the national working committee (NWC) yesterday dissociated themselves from the decision by the national chairman of the party, Sen Abdullahi Adamu to distanced the party from the selection of the principal officers of the national Assembly.
29 Jun
President Bola Tinubu has received the assurance of support from the leadership of 10th National Assembly and state governors on his Renewed Hope agenda.
24 Jun
Senator Godswill Akpabio’s emergence as the President of the Senate and Chairman of the 10th National Assembly on Tuesday, June 13, this year, has distinguished him as a political juggernaut to be revered in the current political dispensation. 

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