archiveJuly 2022

  The leadership of the National Assembly on Tuesday held a consultative meeting with the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed over the draft 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP). The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and the Deputy Speaker of the...

The Bayelsa State Government has indicated interest in partnering Heritage Bank Plc on youth empowerment and sport development. The Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo disclosed the interest of the State Government during a courtesy call with the Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Daniel Igali and others on the Management of...

  The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari, to confirm the nomination of Hon. Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The request was contained in a letter dated 25th July, 2022, and read by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the start of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm 19 nominees as Resident Electoral Commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The confirmation request to the upper chamber was contained in a letter dated 25th July, 2022. The letter was read at plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan....

The Senate, on Tuesday, received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari, to confirm the re-appointment of four nominees as Non-Executive Directors of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The request was contained in a latter dated 21st July, 2022, and read at the start of plenary by the...

The Senate has passed a bill to establish the National Commission for the Coordination and Control of the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons. The passage of the National Commission Against the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (Establishment) Bill, 2022, followed the consideration of a report by...

  A former Commissioner for Finance in Imo State and currently Professor of Capital Market at the Nasarawa State University Keffi, Uche Uwaleke has given insight into what to expect in the fixed income and equities market for the remaining part of the year. Speaking as a guest lecturer at...

    The World Bank Group on Thursday said it has disbursed $14 billion to Nigeria, and other developing countries to tackle C0VID-19 since the pandemic broke out. World Bank Group President, David Malpass disclosed this yesterday at the end of WHO Ministerial Briefing on the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it condemned in the strongest term, the “profane and highly provocative act of desperation by the sinking APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the face of APC’s collapsing leadership, membership and followership structure across the country, saying Tinubu should...

The Senate, on Wednesday, passed a bill to establish the National Social Security Commission. The piece of legislation seeks to put in place a National Social Security protection funding to cater for the needs of the unemployed, old-aged and underaged children below 18 years from broken marriages. Also covered in...