JUST IN: Senate Approves Tinubu’s Request, Passes 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill
28 Jun
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JUST IN: Senate Approves Tinubu’s Request, Passes 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill

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Politics tamfitronics The Nigerian Senate has passed the 2023 supplementary appropriation bill, extending its implementation to December 31, 2024.The passage of the bill, sponsored by Senate Leader Michael Bamidele Opeyemi, allows for the implementation of the 2023 supplementary budget to run concurrently with the 2024 budget, which stands at N28.78 trillion.The emergency plenary session was presided over by Senate President Godswill Obot Akpabio.Akpabio believes the extension will enable the executive to complete all abandoned projects, ensuring their timely completion.President Bola Tinubu had sought the approval of the Senate for the extension of the 2023 capital component of the Appropriation Act and the Supplementary Appropriation Act until December 31. The controversy surrounds the N21.8 trillion budget inherited from former President Muhammadu Buhari, which suffered during the transition period. It is understood that many projects in the...
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Even for Senate Intelligence Committee chair, all politics is local
25 Jun
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Even for Senate Intelligence Committee chair, all politics is local

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Politics tamfitronics Skip to main contentSkip to footerYour subscription makes our work possible.We want to bridge divides to reach everyone.SubscribeAt a Monitor Breakfast, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner weighed in on AI, China, and border security. Then I asked the Virginia Democrat if he’d run for reelection.|Troy Sambajon/The Christian Science MonitorSenate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner spoke to reporters at a Monitor Breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington on June 18, 2024. June 24, 2024|WashingtonLate in our Monitor Breakfast on June 18 with Sen. Mark Warner, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I couldn’t resist asking: Will you run for reelection in 2026?“Sorry!” I added with a chuckle, hoping to convey to the Virginia Democrat that I knew my question seemed off-topic. We had just spent...
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Senate postpones public hearing on CBN, NDIC bills
28 May
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Senate postpones public hearing on CBN, NDIC bills

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Sanni Onogu, Abuja May 28, 2024The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions on Tuesday postponed its public hearing on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act (Amendment) Bill and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation Act (Amendment) Bill scheduled for Thursday, 30th May, 2024. The Clerk to the committee, Mrs Tinuke Ogunrinde, said the public hearing was postponed due to conflicting schedules and clash of national events in commemoration of the first year anniversary of the President Bola Tinubu administration.Top Stories Tamfitronics Read Also: Nigeria debuts at 18th African Sambo Championships in Egypt On the sideline of the May 29 commemoration, the President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be hosted by the National Assembly on Wednesday May 29, 2024.Also, Minister...
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US senate renews FISA surveillance bill, permitting authorities to see
20 Apr
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US senate renews FISA surveillance bill, permitting authorities to see

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Senate passes bill renewing key FISA surveillance strength. AFP/FileUnited States Senate has reinstated the highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 2 more years, The Hill reported.The bill, which used to be handed by 60-34, has been despatched to President Joe Biden who would possibly perchance presumably perchance have the last converse.The FISA bill is a sturdy surveillance instrument that the US authorities makes spend of to sweep by arrangement of communications, including cellphone calls and emails, of non-American citizens wherever out of doors of US territory. That involves communications from US voters to foreigners.Below the bill, the authorities and intelligence services and products pause no longer require a judicial warrant to assist out electronic surveillance.Extinct president Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, writing: "It used...
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