Senate

Controversy erupted in the Senate after Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was excluded from Nigeria’s delegation to the UN women’s summit. A fresh controversy has erupted in the Senate over Nigeria’s delegation to the 2026 session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, as Senator Natasha...

House descends into chaos after Speaker backs rescission motion amid protests demanding real-time electronic transmission of election results. A crucial meeting of the Conference Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2026, was abruptly shifted to late Monday night after members...

Senate says data on broadband, internet penetration and electricity gaps informed decision on discretionary e-transmission in Electoral Bill. The Senate has explained that empirical data on Nigeria’s communication and power infrastructure guided its decision to make electronic transmission of election results discretionary rather than mandatory in the Electoral Bill, 2026....

Senate approves amended Clause 60(3), allowing electronic transmission of polling unit results with safeguards for technical failure. The Senate has approved a proposal allowing the electronic transmission of election results from polling units. The new position followed a motion moved by the Senate Chief Whip, Mohammed Monguno, seeking to rescind...