Ranking senators’ protests, reintroduction of peace corps bill, others top stories at Senate

Two years after, senators reconvenes in newly-renovated chamber Senators resumed from about four weeks of Easter and Eid-el-Fitr recess on Tuesday at the newly-renovated chamber. The upper chamber embarked on holiday on 20 March. Ahead of Tuesday’s plenary, seats had been allocated to the 109 senators including the senate president in the chamber. It had … Read more

How Nigerian lawmakers padded 2024 budget with over N53 billion vague projects

The claim by a senator, Abdul Ningi, that over N53 billion worth of projects in the 2024 Appropriations Act are without a specific location, is true, a check by PREMIUM TIMES has revealed. The suspended lawmaker, who represents Bauchi Central Senatorial District, recently accused the leadership of the Senate of fraudulently smuggling projects into the … Read more