Senate President Godswill Akpabio has scheduled an emergency session for Wednesday at the red chamber to discuss “issues of national importance.”

The Senate and House of Representatives had, last Tuesday, embarked on their seven weeks annual recess and were to resume September 17, 2024.

However, Mr Akpabio, in a notice to fellow senators, “directed that an emergency plenary sitting of the Senate be convened as follows: Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024; Time 12 noon.”

According to the Senate president, issues of national importance are expected to be discussed during the emergency sitting.

“Distinguished senators are requested to make all necessary arrangements to attend as issues of national importance will be discussed. We regret all inconveniences that this interruption of the recess will cause,” the notice added.

The emergency session of the Senate would be held a few hours before Nigerians hit the streets to protest the nationwide hunger and hardship caused by the harsh economic policies of the Bola Tinubu administration on his assumption of office.

Nigerians had vowed to commence a nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest from August 1, 2024, making several demands, including probing past and present leaders who have looted public funds.