President Bola Tinubu has asked the National Assembly to increase the proposed 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion, an increase of N4.5 trillion over that present the President last December. President Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on the floor of the red chamber on Wednesday. Last year, the Senate and …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said that the implementation of the 2024 Appropriation Act would be extended to June 2025. During the joint session of the National Assembly where President Bola Tinubu present the Federal Government’s 2025 budget proposal, Akpabio said the bill extending the 2024 budget would soon be transmitted to the President for approval. In December 2023, the …

Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin and House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu have felicitated Senate President Godswill Akpabio on today’s celebration of his 62 birthday. They described him as a patriotic Nigerian who is gifted with exceptional leadership, wisdom, and dedication to the nation’s democratic process. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Tajuddeen Abbas, were among the dignitaries who attended the wedding Fatiha of the daughter of Senator Mohammed Danjuma Goje yesterday in Abuja. The wedding fatiha between Fauziyya Danjuma Goje and Aliyu Ahmed Abubakar was held at the National Mosque, Abuja, …

President Bola Tinubu has requested the Senate to confirm seven new ministerial nominees, according to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, who read the letter on the floor of the Red chamber on Thursday. Akpabio did not announce a fixed date for confirmation hearing, but said it would be held soon. The President fired five ministers and appointed these new ones in …

The President of the Senate, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has launched a Youth Internship Scheme initiated by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for 10,000 youths of the Niger Delta region. Akpabio, who spoke during the NDDC Executive Management Engagement with Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities and Selected Stakeholders in Port Harcourt, declared that the proposed nationwide protests by some youths would …

Last Wednesday, Nigeria’s upper parliament became a grammar class where semantics, syntax and structure are examined. His Excellency, the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill Obot Akpabio, suddenly became an emergency interpreter and lexicographer. Akpabio’s interpreter’s dilemma reminds me of Field Marshal Gerald Templer. A senior British Army officer, Templer was best known for the implementation of strategies that heavily contributed …

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; the Speaker, House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are on the list of 40 eminent Nigerians that will receive the 2024 Nigerian Excellence Awards in Public Service (NEAPS) at a ceremony scheduled for Abuja Saturday 6 July. The NEAPS 2024 is a collaboration involving …

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said on Tuesday, that the Senate had not approved the purchase of new presidential jets for the use of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. He described as malicious a report quoting him to have said the National Assembly would approve the purchase of new aircraft for the President and Vice President, irrespective …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, commissioned a lithium processing factory in Nasarawa State, built by a Chinese firm, Avatar New Energy Materials Company Limited. The commissioning took place at Kama Otto in Nasarawa Local Government Area, in collaboration with the Nasarawa State Government. President Tinubu who was represented by the president of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, said the commissioning …