The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday Nigeria would generate more revenue from the oil and gas industry with the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Lawan, who disclosed this during a chat with journalists in Abuja, said the Senate would consider the PIB for passage when they resume from the Christmas break
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan has sworn in former Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa West) and three other newly elected senators. The three other senators are Mr Cleopas Moses, Bayelsa Central; Professor Nora Dadu’ut, Plateau South and Tokunbo Abiru, Lagos East. They were sworn in during the Senate plenary on Tuesday, December 15 in Abuja.
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Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila on Thursday promised that the National Assembly would push the Federal Government to implement the demands of End SARS protesters. Lawan and Gbajabiamila spoke on a day protesters ignored the directive of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Malam Muhammad Bello prohibiting protests and demonstrations in
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Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Abia North Senatorial zone, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the construction of the section two of Ohafia to Arochukwu road in Abia North Senatorial district of Abia State. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had on Wednesday approved N12 billion for the
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A not-so-shocking fact of lawmaking is that you are expected to make laws. So, which lawmaker can boast that he or she has not been behind the passage of no laws in the Nigeria Senate house? Let’s see.. Senator Ahmad Lawan, currently the president of the Senate, are among the 10 senators with no bill
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