2022 budget: Senate approves MTEF, retains oil benchmark at $57
The Senate on Wednesday passed the medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) and retained the oil benchmark for the 2022 budget ...
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Electoral Act: Senate sets up conference committee
Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday set up a seven-member conference committee to interface with the House of Representatives team ...
Lawmakers propose life imprisonment for kidnappers
The senate on Tuesday passed for second reading proposing life imprisonment for kidnapping or any form of abduction, wrongful restraint ...
Senate: Law to control sickle cell disease in Nigeria underway
The Senate has passed a bill seeking to control and manage sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited disease in Nigeria. ...
Senate approves 112 as toll-free number for emergencies
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Nationwide Emergency Communications Service. This was just as the ...
Senate approves orthopedic hospitals for Kogi, FCE for Ekiti
The Senate on Tuesday passed bills establishing Orthopedic Hospital, Dekina in Kogi State and Federal College of Education, Omuo-Ekiti, in ...
Buhari writes Senate, wants Finance, Oil ministers out of NNPC board
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday wrote to the Senate, requesting an amendment to the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). ...
Senate passes bills to establish 2 universities in Ekiti, Nasarawa
The Senate on Tuesday passed two bills seeking to establish two federal universities in Ekiti and Nasarawa States. The bills ...
Lawan swears in Senator Jarigbe
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has sworn in Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe to represent Cross River North Senatorial District. Senator Jarigbe took ...
Insecurity: Senate receives gun control, importation of explosives bills
The Senate on Tuesday, received two executive bills transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to control the proliferation of arms and regulate ...