According to the document that conveyed the approval, N189 billion is for the election, adding the N45 billion had been approved for INEC in the 2018 budget making the total for 2018 hit N234 billion.
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The Police in Edo have arrested four persons suspected to be kidnappers, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Danjuma Goje, who stated this at the committees meeting on Wednesday, said the decision would be laid before the full house for consideration at plenary on Thursday.
The Bill for an Act to Amend Provisions of Electoral Act 2010 has scaled second reading in the Senate.
The committee was asked to report back to plenary on Thursday.
The Senate has called on the Federal Government to constitute a panel to investigate the disappearance of retired Maj.-Gen. Idris Alkali and the recovery of some vehicles from a mining pond in Plateau.
The confirmation came amid fears that Banire’s nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari would be turned down because of opposition from his State, Lagos
President Muhammadu Buhari has requested a National Assembly resolution to raise 2.78 billion dollars from the International Capital Market for part-funding of the 2018 budget.
The Senate is to set up a technical committee to study some bills that President Muhammadu Buhari declined assent to.
Gbenga Makanjuola, an aide to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, standing trial for alleged N3.5 billion fraud charge, has been granted a N250 million bail by a Lagos Federal High Court.
Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, on Friday emphasised the importance of the 2019 polls to the survival and progress of the Nigeria nation.
Former Senate President, David Mark, says wants to serve and be remembered as the agent that brought peace, unity and prosperity to all Nigerians.
The Federal Government on Thursday flagged off a N1.7billion erosion control work on Nduetong Oku-Ikpa road, cutting across Uruan and Uyo Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom.
Mimi Adzabe-Orubibi, former Executive Chairman, Benue Internal Revenue Service, has won the APC ticket to contest for the Benue North-East senatorial seat.
A Peoples Democratic Party Presidential aspirant, Senator David Mark, has urged delegates to the party’s national convention scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt to vote for him in the interest of unity, stability and prosperity of the nation.
Delivering judgment on the suit on Tuesday, Justice John Tsoho held that the suit was struck out on the grounds of abuse of court process.
The Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, has said that increased socio-economic activities and improved security in the Northeast was an indication that the region was recovering from the excesses of Boko Haram insurgency.
Alhaji Abba Suleiman, a former Inspector General of Police, has described himself as not a new comer in politics saying he is not new in politics.
The President of the Senate and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Council on Osun State, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has reiterated that the supplementary governorship election in Osun State was a charade and an embarrassment to Nigeria’s democracy.
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State says that the former Senate President and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator David Mark has the pedigree to be Nigeria president.