The Senate on Tuesday gave the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy a 48-hour ultimatum to account for the N13.9 billion received from service-wide votes from...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase as Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC). President Muhammadu Buhari had on...
The Senate on Wednesday adjourned the plenary for the 2023 general elections. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the announcement at the plenary in Abuja. He...
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on Friday summoned the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele...
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, have been given three days to provide details...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure credible conduct of this year’s elections. Lawan, who made the...
The Senate on Tuesday said that it would adjourn plenary next week to give lawmakers the time for campaigns ahead of polls. This is coming few...
“There comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw away his mask”…..Soren Kierkegaard. In an attempt to fairly interrogate the above quote, one needs to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to reconsider its position on his proposal to securitize the Federal Government’s outstanding Ways and Means balance...
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, said on Friday evening that the Senate was not aware of the N22 trillion Ways and...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a closed-door meeting with the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the State House in Abuja. The meeting took place 24...
The Senate has approved N95.26 billion for the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) Power Company after Committee on Power submitted a report on the budget. In...
The Senate has suspended the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the N22.7 trillion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over accusation of...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for the withdrawal of old Naira notes to June 30, 2023....
The Senate on Wednesday passed a supplementary budget of N819 billion for the 2022 fiscal year. The development came after the Senate amended the 2022 Appropriation...
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Bashiru Ajibola, has explained why the upper legislative chamber postponed the passage of the 2023...
Ten days before the end of 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the approval of a total sum of N819.5 billion supplementary 2022...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie as the susbtantive chairman of the board of the Niger...
The Nigerian Senate has deliberated on the cash withdrawal limit policy announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), offering three recommendations to the financial regulator....
The Public Accounts Committee of the 9th Senate has summoned the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr. Mufutau Bello, over unverifiable N113...
A bill seeking to reduce the power of the president on the sack of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) scaled the...
The Senate has referred the Special Assistant on New Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, to its Committee on Niger Delta Affairs for screening as the...
Two deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Aishah Ahmed and Edward Adamu, have been questioned by the Senate Committee on Banking and Financial...
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said on Monday he would not vie for election into the Senate after the expiration of his tenure in 2023....
One hundred ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) have been given a one-week deadline by the Senate to appear before it and provide an account of how...
The new cash withdrawal policy recently announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be the subject of a motion that the Senate will discuss...
With just 31 days to the end of the year, the Senate on Wednesday passed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) 2022 budget of N607.9 billion. This...
The Ministry of Labour has come under probe by the Senate’s Public Accounts Committee over suspected forgery of participants’ signatures at the zonal skill acquisition it...
The Senate has endorsed the award of N48 billion oil pipeline surveillance contract to a former militant leader in the Niger Delta, Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo....
The Senate Committee on Special Duties on Monday summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over the alleged insertion of N206 billion...
The Senate on Thursday quizzed the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd), over alleged duplication of budgetary votes. The Vice Chairman of the Senate...
The Senate established an ad hoc committee on Wednesday to investigate the alleged uneven distribution of a half-trillion-naira loan by the Development Bank of Nigeria to...
The Senate on Wednesday declared its support for the redesign of the Naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The development followed the adoption...
The Senate has resolved to investigate the discrepancy in the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) budgeting system. The Chairman of the Senate Committee...
The Senate Committee on Army on Thursday assured the Nigerian Army of continuous support in its efforts to address security challenges in the country. The Chairman...
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions on Thursday gave the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) two weeks to resolve its crisis. The bureau...
The Senate on Wednesday approved the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) for the country. This followed the adoption of the...
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill on the amendment of the Court of Appeal Act, 2013. The bill, sponsored by Senator Chukwuka Utazi, is seeking...
The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the nomination of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the substantial Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). This followed a screening by the Committee...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Friday, reaffirmed the National Assembly’s commitment to the fight against corruption and insecurity in the country. Lawan, who spoke at...
Deji Adeyanju, a political analyst, has lampooned the plan by some members of the 9th National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the distressing state...
The Senate on Wednesday passed the Electricity Bill, 2022 following a consideration of detailed report from its Committee on power. The passage of the bill coincidentally...
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill on the establishment of the National Social Security Commission. The bill is expected to put in place a National...
The Senate on Tuesday suspended plenary over the death of a lawmaker representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Jude Ise-Idehen....
CLAIM: A Facebook user in a recent post claimed that delegates sent by the Nigerian Senate to visit Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who is in prison custody...
Senators on Wednesday confirmed the seven ministerial nominees forwarded to the upper legislative chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari last week. President Buhari had on June 21...
Following Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s detention in London for alleged organ harvesting, the Senate intends to send a delegation to pay a visit to the former Deputy...
As the country kept grappling with the several political intrigues and challenge, the polity was jolted by the news of the resignation of former Chief Justice...
The National Assembly will work to alter the election statute to provide protection against the law’s flaws, according to Senate President Ahmad Lawan. Lawan made this...
The Senate, on Tuesday, insisted that the investigation into the activities of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, will proceed. Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti)...
