The Senate has announced the postponement of its annual recess for one week to enable members to screen the ministerial nominees.
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The annual recess was initially billed to start on Thursday, July 25th 2019.
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Chairman, Senate ad hoc committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator ADEDAYO ADEYEYE, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja.
The Supreme Court has struck out an application by the All Progressives Congress, asking it to review its judgment on the Zamfara governorship elections.
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In a unanimous ruling by a five-man panel of justices, led by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, the Apex Court says the application is incompetent and lacks merit.
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The panel added that the application should not have been brought before it in the first place.
Air strikes on a market and residential areas in opposition-held north-western Syria have killed at least 31 civilians.
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Fifty other people were injured when warplanes targeted the town of Maarat al-Numan, in southern Idlib province, causing widespread destruction.
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Russia has denied reports that its aircraft carried out the strikes.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged German-based Siemens AG, distribution and transmission companies and the electricity distribution company of Nigeria to work hard to achieve 7,000 megawatts by 2021.
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He also tasked them to work towards 11,000 megawatts by 2023 and overall grid capacity to 25,000 megawatts.
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He gave the charge when the Federal Government of Nigeria signed electricity road map agreement with German-based Siemens at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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