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This followed the presentation and adoption of the report of the Committee on Appropriations on the bill on Tuesday.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, announced transmission of the Federal Government’s supplementary budget at the opening of plenary on Tuesday.

I find it hard to believe that we are still debating whether the President will assent to the reworked electoral Act Amendment Bill which was sent back to him when the previous one was rejected by our man from Daura. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is torn between the devil and the deep blue sea as the waiting game continues. With few months to the next general elections, we still don’t have a clear-cut road map on how the process will pan out and the relevant laws that will guide the exercise.

Bwacha’s appointment was announced on the floor at the start of plenary Wednesday by the Senate President.

Also passed was the Federal Universities of Technology Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill, 2022. 

The passage of the bill followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Aviation. 

According to The Nation, it was learnt Sunday that the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution observed that apart from shrinking resources, which may render additional states unviable, the exercise may fuel national tension and further polarise the country.

Lawan made this known after the upper chamber rose from a closed session to deliberate on the President’s decision.

Bamidele  made this known while the Ekiti Concerned Professionals led by Lekan Ajisafe presented expression of interest nomination cheque to him in Abuja, he said he is coming on board with something unusual.

Ahmed made this known while addressing stakeholders at a public hearing on the 2021 Finance Bill organsied by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Monday in Abuja.

Tagged: “The Nursing and Midwifery (Registration etc) Act, CAP N143 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, (Amendment) Bill, the piece of legislation was sponsored by Senator Hassan Mohammed Gusau.

The governors know what they are doing. The Senate, for example, is their unofficial retirement home and the road to this lair begins with the party primaries. Roughly half of the 22 second-term governors have their eyes on the Presidency or Vice Presidency.

The party said this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Tuesday in Abuja.

The upper chamber had constituted a seven-man conference committee to meet with members of the House of Representatives Conference Committee to harmonise the differences in the Senate and House versions of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.

Gbajabiamila said this when he reacted to a point on matters of privilege by Rep. Ugouna Ozurigbo (APC-Imo)at Tuesday’s  plenary on Tuesday in Abuja.