Senate of Nigeria

The name of the pictureThe name of the pictureThe name of the pictureClash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP

















Senate

8th National Assembly

Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type

Upper house of the National Assembly of Nigeria

Leadership
President of the Senate


Bukola Saraki, PDP
Since June 9, 2015

Deputy President of the Senate


Ike Ekweremadu, PDP
Since June 9, 2015

Structure
Seats
109

Nigerian Senate.svg
Political groups

Minority (44)


  •   All Progressives Congress (Nigeria) (44)
Majority (59)


  •   People's Democratic Party (59


  •   Others (4)



Length of term

4 years
Elections
Voting system

Multi-member plurality system
Last election

29 March 2015
Meeting place

Nigeriahouseofreps.jpg

Abuja
Website

http://www.nass.gov.ng/








Nigeria
Coat of arms of Nigeria.svg

This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Nigeria
















  • Other countries

  • Atlas


  • v

  • t

  • e

The Senate is the upper house of the Nigeria's bicameral legislature, the National Assembly of Nigeria. The National Assembly (popularly referred to as NASS) is the nation's highest legislature, whose power to make laws is summarized in chapter one, section four of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. It consists of 109 senators: the 36 states are each divided in 3 senatorial districts each electing one senator; the Federal Capital Territory elects only one senator.


The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Senate, whose chief function is to guide and regulate the proceedings in the Senate. The Senate President is third in the Nigerian presidential line of succession. He is assisted by the Deputy President of the Senate. The current Senate President is Sen. Bukola Saraki and the current Deputy Senate President is Ike Ekweremadu both of the People's Democratic Party. The Senate President and his Deputy are also assisted by principal officers including the Majority Leader, Deputy Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Deputy Minority Leader, Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip, Minority Whip, and Deputy Minority Whip. In addition, there are 63 Standing Committees in the Senate chaired by Committee Chairmen.


The lower house is the House of Representatives.




Contents





  • 1 Nigerian State Delegations


  • 2 Functions of the Senate

    • 2.1 Legislation


    • 2.2 Checks and Balances



  • 3 Majority and minority parties


  • 4 Term


  • 5 Defection of some members in 2018


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




Nigerian State Delegations


[1]



  1. Abia

  2. Adamawa

  3. Akwa Ibom

  4. Anambra

  5. Bauchi

  6. Bayelsa

  7. Benue

  8. Borno

  9. Cross River

  10. Delta

  11. Ebonyi

  12. Edo

  13. Ekiti

  14. Enugu

  15. Gombe

  16. Imo

  17. Jigawa

  18. Kaduna

  19. Kano

  20. Katsina

  21. Kebbi

  22. Kogi

  23. Kwara

  24. Lagos

  25. Nasarawa

  26. Niger

  27. Ogun

  28. Ondo

  29. Osun

  30. Oyo

  31. Plateau

  32. Rivers

  33. Sokoto

  34. Taraba

  35. Yobe

  36. Zamfara

  37. FCT



Functions of the Senate



Legislation


Bills may be introduced in any chamber of the National Assembly. However, the Nigerian constitution provides that money bills (Revenue and Appropriation bills) must originate in the House of Representatives, although the approval of both the Senate and the House of Representatives is required for any bill, including money bills, to become law.



Checks and Balances


The constitution provides several unique functions for the Senate that form its ability to "check and balance" other elements of the Federal Government of Nigeria. These include the requirement that the Senate may advise and must consent to some of the President's government appointments; also the Senate must consent to all treaties with foreign governments and it tries all impeachments.



Majority and minority parties


The "Majority party" is the party that either has a majority of seats or can form a coalition or caucus with a majority of seats; if two or more parties are tied the Senate President's affiliation determines which party becomes the majority party. The second largest party is the Minority party.



Term


Senators are to serve a term of four years until a General election. Senators have unlimited tenure[2] and can remain in the chamber for as long as they are re-elected in general elections.





Defection of some members in 2018


A group of 15 senators of Nigeria’s ruling party defected to the main opposition group underscoring rising political tensions thereby making the All Progressive Congress lose her majority stake, although Senate President Bukola Saraki was not among initially, but he finally decamped to the people’s democratic party on Tuesday 31st July 2018. [3][4]




References




  1. ^ http://www.nassnig.org/nass/Princ_officers.php?title_sur=Sen


  2. ^ "Pardoned for Senate". 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2017-03-16. 


  3. ^ David Malingha Doya and Paul Wallace. "Nigeria Ruling APC Party Loses Senate Majority on Defections". Retrieved 24 July 2018. 


  4. ^ Chudi, Felix. "Senate hurriedly adjourns till September 25 as PDP becomes majority party". Retrieved 24 July 2018. 




External links


  • Official website





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Executable numpy error

Image
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Executable numpy error I'm trying to create an executable file for my code. I've already tried with cx_Freeze and with pyinstaller. Both gives me the same error, which is: "Missing required dependencies 0.format(missing_dependencies))" PS C:UsersGustavoDesktopbuildexe.win32-3.6> python AgendaOficial.py C:UsersGustavoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36-32python.exe: can't open file 'AgendaOficial.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory PS C:UsersGustavoDesktopbuildexe.win32-3.6> .AgendaOficial.exe Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:UsersGustavoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36-32libsite-packagescx_Freezeinitscripts__startup__.py", line 14, in run module.run() File "C:UsersGustavoAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36-32libsite-packagescx_FreezeinitscriptsConsole.py", line 26, in run exec(code, m. dict ) File "AgendaOficial.py", line 8, in File "C:UsersGustavoAppDataLocal...
Read more

Trying to Print Gridster Items to PDF without overlapping contents

Image
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Trying to Print Gridster Items to PDF without overlapping contents I want to print gridster items to pdf using chome browser. Unfortunately the item overlaps on next page. Is there any way to make gridster item go to next page if it doesnt fit in the current page when printing to pdf? Screenshot By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy, and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies.
Read more

Mass disable jenkins jobs

Image
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Mass disable jenkins jobs Is it possible to disable a large number of Jenkins jobs in one go? I have a large number of jenkins job I need to disable. Visiting each job in turn and disbling is tedious. 2 Answers 2 https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Configuration+Slicing+Plugin That works beautifully install it go to http://your_jenkins.com:8080/slicing/jobdisabledbool/? By using configuration slicing plugin: By using this plugin easy to find out anything has enabled or disable jobs and timer separated jobs Manage Jenkins >Config slicing > select options By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy, and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies.
Read more