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The Nigerian Senate in 2025: A Year of Legislation, Controversy, and Questions

Tony Icheku writes a review of the Senate performance in the year 2025 and concludes that there is still a long way to go. PREAMBLE The Nigerian Senate under the leadership of Godswill Akpabio concluded 2025 as one of the most productive yet controversial legislative...

AKPABIO’S NEW YEAR PROMISE VS SENATE REALITY

Tekena Amakiri writes that Akpabio 's new year message to Nigerians is nothing but mere rhetorics. Akpabio’s New Year message projects 2026 as a year of renewed hope, steady national progress and strong institutions anchored on “institutional responsibility,...

Between Oshiomole and Ndume: When Silence is Cowardice and Complicity

By Uwem Essien The unfolding controversy over alleged alterations in Nigeria’s new tax laws has exposed two sharply different instincts in the Senate: Ali Ndume’s combative defence of due process and Adams Oshiomhole’s telling retreat into silence. For two men long...

Akpabio’s Police Security Request: A Troubling Disconnect from Nigerian Realities

Tekena Amakiri writes that Akpabio 's request on Tinubu, to reinstate police security for NASS members, smacks of crass insensitivity and urges Tinubu to reject it. At last week's budget presentation, Senate President Godswill Akpabio made a startling plea to...

Oke was a victim of APC vendetta politics…Seriake Dickson

Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which I am Vice Chairman, sat to screen the President’s earlier ambassadorial nominees — Ayodele Oke, Kayode Are, and Aminu Dalhatu — who all appeared before us. As I said, as Senators of the Federal...
Between Oshiomole and Ndume: When Silence is Cowardice and Complicity

Between Oshiomole and Ndume: When Silence is Cowardice and Complicity

By Uwem Essien The unfolding controversy over alleged alterations in Nigeria’s new tax laws has exposed two sharply different instincts in the Senate: Ali Ndume’s combative defence of due process and Adams Oshiomhole’s telling retreat into silence. For two men long...

Between Oshiomole and Ndume: When Silence is Cowardice and Complicity

By Uwem Essien The unfolding controversy over alleged alterations in Nigeria’s new tax laws has exposed two sharply different instincts in the Senate: Ali Ndume’s combative defence of due process and Adams Oshiomhole’s telling retreat into silence. For two men long...

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