{"id":126421,"date":"2024-07-31T17:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians"},"modified":"2024-07-31T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:43:29","slug":"shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"Shelve protest \u2013 Senate begs Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Senate on Wednesday appealed to Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protest to shelve their plans in the interest of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the appeal during plenary after a closed-door session.<\/p>\n<p>The #EndBadGovernance protest is scheduled to commence tomorrow, August 1.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio said, \u201cThe Senate in a closed-session deliberated on issues bothering on its workings in particular and the National Assembly in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate particularly reviewed the current situation as regards the impending protest slated for August 1 and accordingly urges that one year is not long enough to judge the present government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne year is not long enough for the policies being implemented by the current administration of President Bola Tinubu to yield the desired results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate urges the protesters to give the government more time to address their demands considering the measures being put in place to ameliorate the situation in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He identified the measures to include: the signing of the National Minimum Wage Act, the sale of crude oil to local refiners in Naira, and the implementation of Students Loan Act.<\/p>\n<p>Others, he said, are the assent recently granted to the South-East and North-West Development Commissions bills passed by the National Assembly to further address developments at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Senate was willing to legislate on all matters that would bring about succour to Nigerians in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate on Wednesday appealed to Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protest to shelve their plans in the interest of the nation. Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the appeal during plenary after a closed-door session. The #EndBadGovernance protest is scheduled to commence tomorrow, August 1. Akpabio said, \u201cThe Senate in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":126420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,53],"class_list":["post-126421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shelve protest \u2013 Senate begs Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senate on Wednesday appealed to Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protest to shelve their plans in the inter ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shelve protest \u2013 Senate begs Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senate on Wednesday appealed to Nigerians and promoters of the nationwide protest to shelve their plans in the inter ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-31T16:31:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-31T17:43:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1722434923.954721.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"711\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Shelve protest \u2013 Senate begs Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-31T16:31:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-31T17:43:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":247,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/sm_1722434923.954721.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"senate\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/shelve-protest-senate-begs-nigerians\",\"name\":\"Shelve protest \u2013 Senate begs Nigerians - 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