President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has on Wednesday, frustrated the move to push lawmakers to adjourn sitting as the plenary session was going on.Soon after the commencement of business of the day, Senator George Sekibo, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers East cited Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules as amended on the
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The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, on Saturday in Gashua, Bade Local Government Area, sponsored the wedding of 100 less-privileged spinsters. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the beneficiaries were drawn from Bade and Jakusko Local Government areas. Lawan, represented by the Speaker, Yobe House of Assembly, Alhaji Ahmed Mirwa, said the gesture was
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President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Ahmad Lawan held a closed-door meeting on Sunday, the PUNCH reports. The meeting held inside the Aso Rock Villa. Though details of the meeting are yet to be made public as of the time of filing this report, the Senate had recently lamented the state of insecurity in Nigeria.
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By: Uche Ezeadigwe The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has tasked the Federal Government to ensure equity and fairness in the distribution of the stimulus package across the country. Lawan, made this call in a press statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media) Mr Ola Awoniyi where he made the appeal at a meeting of
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The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said the out-of-school children popularly known as the Almajiri children remained a big challenge facing Nigeria as a nation. The Senate President said the problem constitutes not only social but security problems to the country as a whole. Lawan stated this after the consideration of motion on “The
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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday reviewed the current security architecture of the country and demanded an urgent restructuring to make a way for intervention from other tiers of government. Lawan, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, also welcomed the recent regional and states initiatives to tackle the unfortunate security challenges
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