Tag: Senate

Impeachment Notice: Senate President, Security Chiefs move to save Buhari from impeachment

Aminu Imam

The leadership of the Senate and the Service Chiefs are working hard to prevent the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is coming just as the six weeks impeachment notice to the President has entered the second week, with signatures currently being collated. However, worried by the threat from the National Assembly members who are desirous of impeaching Buhari, the leaders of the Senate who are likely to be casualties of the pending impeachment held a crucial meeting with the military chiefs, Heads of security and intelligence agencies over the…

Read More

Court jails Nigerian senator for 7 years over money laundering

Aminu Imam

The Court of Appeal in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced the Senator representing Delta-North senatorial district, Peter Nwaoboshi, to seven years imprisonment for money laundering. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), arraigned Nwaoboshi and his two companies, Golden Touch Construction Project Limited and Suiming Electrical Limited on a two-count charge of fraud and money laundering. The defendants were arraigned over the acquisition of a property named Guinea House in Marine Road, Apapa, Lagos, for N805 million. The Commission alleged that the N322 million Suiming Electrical Ltd transferred on behalf of Nwaoboshi…

Read More

Senate confirms all seven ministerial nominees

Aminu Imam

The Senate, yesterday, screened and confirmed all seven ministerial nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari. The nominees for confirmation include Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh, (Abia State); Umana Okon Umana, (Akwa Ibom); Ekumankama Joseph Nkama, (Ebonyi), and Goodluck Nanah Opiah, (Imo State). Others include Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub, (Kano); Ademola Adewole Adegoroye, (Ondo), and Odum Udi, (Rivers). The Senate went into the screening of the nominees after attending to Ekweremadu’s list as stated in the order paper of the day. The nominees will be replacing Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio and Emeka Nwajiuba…

Read More

Buhari names nominees to replace Amaechi, Akpabio, others as ministers

Aminu Imam

The Senate has received seven nominees from President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and confirmation as ministers. Their nomination was contained in a letter addressed to Senate President Ahmad Lawan and was read at plenary yesterday. In the letter, President Buhari listed the ministerial nominees to include Henry Ikechukwu (Abia), Umana Okon-Umana (Akwa-Ibom), and Ekuma Joseph (Ebonyi), Goodluck Obia (Imo), Umar Ibrahim(Kano), Ademola Adewole (Ondo), and Udum Odi (Rivers). The letter read: “In accordance with Section 8 Subsection 2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, I…

Read More

Just In! Buhari writes Senate to confirm seven new ministers

Aminu Imam

The Senate has received seven nominees from President Muhammadu Buhari for consideration and confirmation as ministers. Their nomination was contained in a letter addressed to Senate President Ahmad Lawan and was read at plenary on Tuesday. In the letter, President Buhari listed the ministerial nominees to include Henry Ikechukwu (Abia), Umana Okon-Umana (Akwa-Ibom), and Ekuma Joseph (Ebonyi), Goodluck Obia (Imo), Umar Ibrahim(Kano), Ademola Adewole (Ondo), and Udum Odi (Rivers). The President said he expected to receive the usual expeditious consideration and confirmation of the nominees by the Senate.

Read More

Senate amends Electoral Act to allow government officials vote at party primaries

Aminu Imam

The Senate has passed an amendment to Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act 2022, to enable statutory delegates to participate in political parties’ congresses and conventions. The red chamber claimed it unintentionally omitted the statutory delegates from the version of the Act assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari in February. The Act, before the amendments, prevented statutory delegates from voting during party primaries. Statutory delegates are councillors, local government chairmen and their vice, and political party chairmen in all the nation’s 774 local government areas. They also included State and…

Read More

2023: Gov. Umahi denies dropping presidential ambition for Senate

Aminu Imam

Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, has denied reports that he has abandoned his ambition to contest the 2023 Presidential election under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Ebonyi-South senatorial seat. The State’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barrister Orji Uchenna Orji, in an issued statement yesterday, said the report is sponsored by opposition forces who are afraid of the governor’s growing popularity. “Our attention has been drawn to a senseless falsehood being irresponsibly shared on social media platforms by opposition forces and mischievous minds…

Read More

‘Political appointees contesting in 2023 should resign before April 11’ – Ovie Omo-Agege

Aminu Imam

Several appointees that intend to contest at the 2023 polls are yet to relinquish their present positions. The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, has called on all political appointees vying to contest at the 2023 general elections to tender their resignations before April 11. Omo-Agege made this call through his chief of staff, Otive Igbuzor, in an internal memo on March 30, titled: “Resignation of all political appointees”. “I write to draw the attention of all political appointees who are delegates to the State House of Assembly, House of Representatives,…

Read More

Senate investigates how DPR, despite Buhari’s directive, illegally awarded oil field to Halkin Oil

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Senate is investigating how an oil field, OML 46, was illegally awarded to Halkin Exploration and Production Company Limited, by the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), in contravention of a Presidential directive. The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, while interfacing with the groups involved at a public hearing on Tuesday, was informed that after the revocation of the oil field, the presidency intervened, considered the numerous petitions from the various marginal owners, and directed that the fields be re-awarded on a discretionary basis with…

Read More

Senate to appeal ruling nullifying Section 84(12) of Electoral Act

Aminu Imam

The Senate, yesterday, resolved to appeal the judgement of Federal High Court, Umuahia, annulling section 84(12) of the Electoral Act. The resolution followed a motion titled: “Urgent need to appeal judgement of the Federal High Court, Umuahia, on suit No.: FHC/UM/CS/26/2022 on Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act, 2022.” The motion was sponsored by Senator George Sekibo (Rivers East) and co-sponsored by 80 other lawmakers. Recall that the Senate had insisted on going ahead to consider the request by the President, who asked the lawmakers to delete the controversial section,…

Read More