LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has confirmed Mahmood Yakubu as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Yakubu in October. The academic is the first to be reappointed as the head of the electoral body in the country’s history. The upper legislative chamber confirmed Yakubu’s nomination after Ibrahim Gaya,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ”overstayed” service chiefs. The resolution of the upper legislative chamber followed a motion sponsored by Kashim Shettima, senator representing Borno central. The request by the lawmakers is coming six months after they asked the service chiefs to resign. Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate committee on privatisation has said the chamber is not aware of any planned agreement by the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to sell or concession some national properties to help fund the 2021 budget. Chairman of the committee, Theodore Orji, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday. He also complained that…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Wednesday, stressed its opposition to the granting of amnesty to acclaimed repentant Boko Haram insurgents, saying some of them masterminded recent attack in Damboa, Borno State in which several persons, including an army General was killed. Members of the Committee on Army, who briefed newsmen shortly after the budget defence,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, is today expected to hand over to an acting chairman who will oversee the affairs of the agency pending the confirmation of his (Yakubu) reappointment by the Senate. The ceremony is scheduled to take place at the conference hall of the commission’s…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate said on Wednesday that only those involved in budget preparation would accompany the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the National Assembly on Thursday. The President is expected to present the 2021 national budget estimates to the joint session of the federal parliament on Thursday. The President of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesman of the senate, Ajibola Basiru, has said no member of the Nigerian senate got N20 million as COVID-19 palliatives. Basiru stated this while reacting to a statement made by the executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojugboh. Ojougboh had stated that senators and members…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal lawmakers are again smarting for a showdown with their leadership and the presidency once they resume from their annual vacation. The mutual ethnic suspicion in the polity will again reverberate in the consideration of the controversial National Water Resources Bill 2020, Nigerian Tribune investigation revealed. The bill which was shut down…