The Senate has urged its members to remain focused on addressing the nation’s challenges and to stay committed to fostering renewed hope for a more prosperous Nigeria.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio made the appeal while welcoming lawmakers back from recess this Tuesday.
He acknowledged that the country is grappling with numerous challenges, including insecurity, economic hardship, and food shortages.
He emphasized that only through diligent policymaking, effective legislation, and collaboration with the executive arm can meaningful progress be achieved in overcoming these hurdles.
Akpabio said the country has walked through so many hardships while the National Assembly is away, we grieved with the families who lost their loved ones in the cruel boat tragedy on the River Niger, the bloody killing at a mosque in Katsina and the twelve forest guards slain in Oke-Ode, Kwara State, saying this remind them that insecurity knows no boundaries.
He also commiserate with Nigerians compatriots across the country over the flood-ravaged states of Bayelsa, Sokoto, Zamfara and others, as the 2025 flood season continues to uproot lives and destroy livelihoods, urging for urgent collaboration to mitigate these devastation
“We urge urgent coordination between the federal and sub-national governments to mitigate these devastations before they become annual calamities. To every home afflicted by these disasters, insecurity, hunger, and hardship, we extend to them the hand of fellowship and the prayer of comfort.”
The senate president also expressed satisfaction with the level of economic progress especially in the oil sector, saying Nigeria’s oil production has climbed toward 1.8 million barrels per day, driven by reforms and renewed investor confidence.
“We must ensure that this blessing does not become another fleeting windfall, but a foundation for fiscal discipline, infrastructure renewal, and job creation.”
Akpabio further explained that millions of Nigerians face acute food shortages a crisis demanding urgent legislative attention to agriculture, rural roads, irrigation, and mechanization, believing that hunger cannot be defeated with words; it requires policy, budget,
” our people do not look to us for lamentations; they look to us for action. ”
He argued that the banners of terrorism and banditry still threaten the countryside, the cost of living weighs upon the family table like an iron chain, the flickering of our national grid leaves cities in darkness and commerce in paralysis.
He said These trials summon us to service of uncommon urgency — and to partnership with the Executive Arm, that together we rewrite the story of our nation.
Bashir M
