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  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to “promptly disclose the exact amount of the monthly running costs of millions of naira currently being paid to and received by members of the National Assembly and the spending details of any such running costs.” SERAP ...

Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has berated Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, for superintending over a National Assembly that allegedly undermines the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) in fixing its own humongous salaries/allowances while Nigerians are hungry, poor, insecure In a statement on Wednesday by his ...

  The lawmaker representing Kano South, Senator Sumaila Kawu, has revealed that he earns over N21m monthly as a total take-home package. This revelation is coming barely 24 hours after the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission said that each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber receives a total of N1.06m in salary and allowances per month. The ...

The Senate on Wednesday sacked its Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The upper chamber replaced Mr Ndume, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Borno South Senatorial District with Tahir Monguno (Borno North). The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the decision after many of the senators supported it during the plenary. The decision followed a ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Mr Godswill Akpabio to “urgently refer the allegations that lawmakers padded the 2024 budget by irregularly inserting projects worth N3.7 trillion to appropriate anti-corruption agencies for investigation and prosecution.” SERAP urged him “to immediately reinstate whistleblower Abdul Ningi who was recently suspended from the Senate over his allegations that ...

Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has demanded an immediate and thorough investigation into the allegations of budget padding levelled against the Senate. Atiku made his views known yesterday in a statement on his X handle formerly Twitter. The statement reads, “Over the past few days, allegations ...

The main opposition voice and Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, has admonished the Senate to come clean and clear all the allegations associated with the N3 trillion padding in the 2024 budget. Obi, writing in his X handle on Wednesday, told the upper chamber that the public deserves to know the truth about the allegations especially as the Senate ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn, their highest since the return of democracy in 1999.” Mr Akpabio and Mr Abbas are sued for themselves ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70bn as ‘palliatives’ for new members.” The suit is coming on the heels of the ...

  The Senate has asked the Chairman of the Economic Community of  West  African States, ECOWAS, President Bola  Tinubu, and other leaders of the region to tread with caution in addressing the political quagmire in Niger Republic following the sacking of the democratically elected administration of Mohamed Bazoum. Rising from a closed-door session that lasted close to two hours to ...