{"id":75539,"date":"2025-09-23T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75539"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:07:32","slug":"senate-shifts-plenary-resumption-to-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/23\/senate-shifts-plenary-resumption-to-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Shifts Plenary Resumption to October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 10th Senate has postponed the resumption of plenary from September 23 to October 7, 2025, extending its annual recess by two more weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustment was conveyed in an internal memo signed by Chinedu Akubueze, Chief of Staff to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and circulated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Though no official reason was given, sources within the National Assembly said the delay would allow lawmakers to participate fully in Independence Day celebrations on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has raised concerns among some senators, who fear it could stall crucial legislative work, including debates on pending motions, oversight functions, and confirmation of executive nominees.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo, titled \u201cNotice of Shift in Plenary Resumption Date,\u201d Akubueze apologized for the short notice and urged senators to adjust their schedules. \u201cAny inconvenience this may cause is deeply regretted,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate had originally adjourned plenary on July 24 for its annual recess, a break Senate President Akpabio described as \u201cchamber reciprocity\u201d with the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>With the new date, the upper chamber will have been on recess for nearly 11 weeks before reconvening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The 10th Senate has postponed the resumption of plenary from September 23 to October 7, 2025, extending its annual recess by two more weeks. The adjustment was conveyed in an internal memo signed by Chinedu Akubueze, Chief of Staff to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, and circulated on Monday. Though no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75541,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75539\/revisions\/75541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}