Nigeria’s National Assembly, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, recorded a flurry of significant events during the year. The two chambers resumed from the Christmas/New Year holiday on 30 January 2024 and sat through 19 December except on a few occasions they were on recess. Some of the activities are: 1. Budget padding … Read more
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria’s out-of-school children may soon transform to bandits, if the government fails to return them to their classrooms. Mr Akpabio said this during the plenary on Wednesday when he commented on a report to tackle the challenges of out-of-school children in the country. “This issue of out-of-school children is … Read more
The Senate resumed legislative activities on Tuesday, expressing anger over the treatment of the Nigerian national football team, Super Eagles, in faraway Libya, and demanded justice for the team. The team was shabbily treated at the airport on arrival in Libya on Sunday ahead of its crucial African Cup of Nations qualifying match against the … Read more
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has doled out millions of naira and appointments to pacify members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Essien Udim Local Government Area who “lost out” in the just-concluded local elections. The Senate President Godswill Akpabio, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is from Essien … Read more
Controversy has continued to trail the outcome of the recent local elections in Akwa Ibom State. The man regarded as the political leader of Essien Udim Local Government Area in the state has insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and not the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the chairmanship election in the council area. … Read more
A chieftain of the All Progressives Party (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has thanked Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State for “saving” the Senate President Godswill Akpabio from “a huge political embarrassment” in the just concluded local elections in the state. According to the results released on Sunday by the Chairperson of the Akwa … Read more
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas over “the failure to end the apparently unlawful practice by the National Assembly of fixing its allowances and running costs, and the failure to account for the monthly … Read more
Akpabio accuses the Ogoni people of stalling the East-West Road project The week began with a report on a controversial statement by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, blaming the Ogoni people of Rivers State for the non-completion of the East-West Road project. Mr Akpabio said he had secured N75 billion to complete the project when … Read more
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has accused the candidates who lost out in the 2023 presidential election of sponsoring the planned nationwide protest. Mr Akpabio spoke on Monday at the State House, Abuja, after he witnessed President Bola Tinubu’s signing of the new minimum wage bill into law. Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), … Read more
The meeting between representatives of the federal government, leadership of the National Assembly and officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) over the proposed national minimum wage ended in deadlock on Sunday. The meeting which began around 5:50 p.m. and ended at 8:45 p.m. was held behind closed-door at … Read more
