The Senate is to debate the general principles of the 2019 budget today. The resolution followed yesterday’s announcement by the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, at plenary. He urged interested lawmakers to notify the chamber. Procedurally, debate on budget proposals is centered on its general principles, particularly the policies and programmes it intends to facilitate. […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on March 23, 2019 hold supplementary elections in the six states where the exercises were declared inconclusive. The states are: Plateau, Sokoto, Bauchi, Benue, Adamawa and Kano. According to a statement yesterday by Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, “supplementary elections will […]