{"id":2300,"date":"2026-10-28T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/senate-confirms-seven-frc-board-nominees\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T12:15:58","slug":"senate-confirms-seven-frc-board-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/senate-confirms-seven-frc-board-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms seven FRC board nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Senate-confirms-seven-FRC-board-nominees.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Senate\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Senate-confirms-seven-FRC-board-nominees.jpg 814w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Senate1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Senate1-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Henry Umoru<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABUJA \u2014 The Senate has confirmed the appointment of seven nominees to the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), including Dr Abdullahi Saidu as chairman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confirmation followed the consideration of a report presented on Wednesday by the Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Kamarudeen Olalere (Osun West).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confirmed nominees are Saidu as chairman, alongside Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Makama, Suleiman Gidado, Louis Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Onikola as members of the commission\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Bola Tinubu had last month written to the Senate, seeking the screening and confirmation of the nominees for appointment to key government institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter was read on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the reading of the letter, Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Finance and directed it to report back within two weeks for legislative consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/senate-confirms-seven-frc-board-nominees\/\">Senate confirms seven FRC board nominees<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Henry Umoru ABUJA \u2014 The Senate has confirmed the appointment of seven nominees to the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), including Dr Abdullahi Saidu as chairman. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}