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| Type | bicameral | ||||
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| President of the Senate | David Mark, PDP since June 6, 2007 |
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| Deputy President of the Senate | Ike Ekweremadu, PDP since June 6, 2007 |
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| Members | 360 | ||||
| Political groups | PDP, AC, ANPP | ||||
| Meeting place | Abuja | ||||
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The Senate is the upper house of the National Assembly of Nigeria. It consists of 109 senators: the 36 states are divided in 3 senatorial districts each electing one senator; the Federal Capital Territory elects only one senator.
The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Senate, whose chief function is to guide and regulate the proceedings in the Senate. The current Senate President is Sen. David Mark of the People's Democratic Party.
The lower house is the House of Representatives.
Nigerian State Delegations
Latest election (including House)
| Parties | House of Representatives | Senate | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
| People's Democratic Party | 54.5 | 223 | 53.7 | 76 | ||
| All Nigeria Peoples Party | 27.4 | 96 | 27.9 | 27 | ||
| Alliance for Democracy | 8.8 | 34 | 9.7 | 6 | ||
| United Nigeria People's Party | 2.8 | 2 | 2.7 | - | ||
| National Democratic Party | 1.9 | 1 | 1.6 | - | ||
| All Progressives Grand Alliance | 1.6 | 2 | 1.5 | - | ||
| People's Redemption Party | 0.8 | 1 | 0.7 | - | ||
| vacant | 1 | |||||
| Total (turnout 50.0/49.2 %) | 360 | 109 | ||||
| Source: IPU Parline | ||||||
The Nigerian Senate emblem has been used in 419 scam emails in order to trick email recipients into sending money to a non-existent recipient.
External links
- http://www.assemblyonline.info
- http://www.nassnig.org/senate/Senate.htm
- http://www.nigeriacongress.org/fgn/fgn.asp
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