The Senate on Wednesday mandated its Committees on Local Content Legislative Compliance and Petroleum Downstream to investigate the influx of foreign vessels into Nigeria’s coastal region and the level of patronage of Nigerian shipping companies.
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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has congratulated an elder statesman, Alhaji Mamman Daura, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
“Given the situation we are in today, the various challenges that Nigeria and its people face, we even need to pray more,” Lawan said while receiving in audience a delegation of the Christian Legislators’ Fellowship of the National Assembly.
The Deputy Whip of the Senate, Francis Alimikhena, is set to clinch the seat of the Deputy Senate President in the ninth Senate.
Senators on Wednesday called for more efforts by the Federal Government at building sustainable alternative sources of budget funding with focus on the agriculture sector.
This followed a resolution by the lawmakers, sequel to a motion by Senator Solomon Adeola and co-sponsored by 18 others.