Senate confirms N13.5m monthly allowance

The Nigerian Senate said yesterday that Senator Shehu Sani was in order when he revealed the N45m quarterly allowance that each Senator takes home.


And it quickly added that the information about the emoluments of senators was never a secret.

Senate Spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said the figure Sani gave out about running cost of the offices of Senators were contained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public.

The confirmation from the Senate Spokesman is coming years after the Upper Chambers have on number of occasions refuse to make public their allowances and emolument.