Source: https://www.freshreporters.com/2019/01/breaking-national-assembly-begins-works.html

Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan cites Order 79 and requests that the order be suspended.

Lawan said that the Minimum Wage Bill should be taken for first and second reading today, January 24, 2018 and referred to the relevant Committee due to the importance of this Bill.

The National Minimum Wage Bill, 2019 was then read for the first time to the lawmakers.

Meanwhile, it was earlier reported that former Senate leader, Ali Ndume, representing Borno south, accused the leadership of the Senate and lawmakers on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of frustrating efforts by the Senate to discuss the 2019 national budget submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ndume, who spoke with journalists after plenary Wednesday, January 23, said that as far as federal lawmakers belonging to the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) are concerned , the budget proposals can be attended to within a week and passed but the Senate headed by lawmakers on the platform of the PDP, seems not to be interested in the consideration of the budget proposals.