President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday night met with Senate President Godswill Akpabio at the President’s official residence inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came just days after the National Assembly passed the N54.99 trillion 2025 budget. Details of their discussion remain undisclosed but the meeting is believed to be connected to final preparations for the President’s assent to …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has given assurances that Edo State’s All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the governorship election in Edo State in September. Addressing the APC South-South conference in Calabar, Cross River State’s capital, on Sunday, he charged APC members from Edo State to work harder to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the governorship …

After a four-hour meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly on Sunday evening in Abuja, the leadership of the organised labour insisted on the nationwide industrial action slated to start on Monday. After the meeting with National Assembly leadership, the President of the Trade Union Congress, Comrade Festus Osifo said: “For now, we don’t have the power to call …

Colombia’s top administrative court annulled on Thursday the election of the Senate President, Roy Barreras, a key figure in the ambitious reform drive of President Gustavo Petro. The court, known as the Council of State, declared that Barreras did not leave his old political party soon enough to seek re-election with his current party, violating electoral rules. The senator breached …

Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan has said he feels bad that the ninth Senate under his purview could not pass the Gender Equality Bill, expected to advance the rights of women in Nigeria. He said for inexplicable reasons, even bills concerning the National Assembly could not see the light of the day but it was not a basis to write …

Senator Danladi Sankara (Jigawa Northwest) and former Senator Mas’ud El-Jibril (Kano South) have drummed up support for Senator Barau Jibrin (Kano North) to become Senate President in the 10th Assembly. According to Sankara, Jibrin deserves to lead the Senate because he is a high-ranking Senator with rich experience garnered over the years. There have been intense agitations that the Senate …

The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to abide by the Constitution and the Electoral Act 2022 in the conduct of the March 11 governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections. He made the call at the close of Thursday’s plenary while also suspending plenary till March 14 to enable senators to participate …