The Senate has perfected plans to withhold the confirmation of nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the lawmakers’ strategies for a showdown with the...
The Presidency, through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has waded into the rift involving the Inspector...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, re-submitted the name of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee from Imo State, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor who was earlier rejected...
The Senate, on Wednesday, alleged that the Nigeria Police has stolen all relevant documents needed to process and pass the 2017 Budget. Subsequently, the Upper Legislative...
Almost two decades after the Federal Government made its first attempt to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Senate will on the 16 and 17...
The Asokoro, Abuja home of a former governor of Gombe State and serving senator, Danjuma Goje, was on Thursday evening raided by police. It was learnt...
The ongoing peace talks between the Senate and the Executive may still be deadlocked, despite the suspension of Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal....
President Muhammadu Buhari will not communicate to the Senate his latest position on the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu,...
Contrary to its promise that it will pass the 2017 budget on or before the end of March, the Senate, last Tuesday again, failed to pass...
The Senate has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for responding to the motion moved during a plenary session by Senator Kabiru Marafa, chairman, Committee...
The Senate, on Wednesday, declared that over N30 trillion has been round tripped by virtually all the commercial banks in the country from 2006 till date...
As the dust raised in the face-off between the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col Hameed Ali (rtd) and the Senate struggles to settle,...
The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to liaise with the National Judicial Council, (NJC) Office of the Attorney...
The Senate has rejected an interim report, submitted by an adhoc committee on farmers-herders clash inSouthern Kaduna and in other parts of the country. The committee...
The Senate, on Thursday, raised the alarm over growing tensions in the Niger Delta region, following the alleged refusal of the Federal Government, to offset five...
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Prof Itse Sagay, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is condoning evil and that the party has...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the alleged comment the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman, Itse Sagay, made against the Senate and described...
On Tuesday, the Senate urged the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to make meningitis vaccinations free in public healthcare...
Thousands of people from Borno South Senatorial District, on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to protest against the suspension of Senator Ali Ndume by the Senate....
Barring any last minute changes, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party caucuses in the Senate will be meeting with the leaders of their...
President Muhammadu Buhari may not heed the call by the Senate for the sack of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr....
Nigeria’s federal system of government has bestowed on it a bicameral legislature at the federal level. To this end, National Assembly consists of a Senate with...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Friday led some prominent leaders of the state to visit the Senate President Bukola Saraki. The visit may not...
The Senate on Thursday passed amendments to the Electoral Act 2010, approving the use of electronic voting in future elections. It also approved that election results...
Barely twenty four hours after Senators hurriedly suspended the immediate-past Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, lawmakers have deserted the chamber. Unlike Wednesday where the number of lawmakers...
Former Senate leader Ali Ndume has fallen into troubled waters with his colleagues, and has been suspended for six months. The suspension takes immediate effect and will...
The Senate, on Wednesday, summoned the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, over his alleged disparaging comments against the Red Chamber. Sagay is...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has forwarded two ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. The two names are Steven Ikani Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan...
The Senate on Tuesday refused to go ahead with the process of confirmation of the 27 persons sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari as INEC...
The Senate is still trying to extricate itself from the Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) said to have been purchased for the upper chamber, but...
Controversial Senator Dino Melaye, appeared in Senate, on Tuesday fully kitted in his academic gown. Melaye who shocked lawmakers and appeared while others were already seated,...
The presidency and the Senate, may be heading for another fresh showdown, over the refusal of the latter to approve a $200 million World Bank loan...
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Monday, raised the alarm that the Senate is being blackmailed by unnamed persons, whom he said are aggrieved....
Based on the move by the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff to investigation how over N4 trillion was lost by the Nigeria Customs Service...
THE Senate has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it today and explain his side of the...
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, has revealed its plans to commence investigations into how over N4 trillion was lost due to revenue leakage...
There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is set to commence lobbying of the Senate for the screening and final confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive...
The Senate says it’s position on EFCC’s acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, and why it refused to confirm his appointment has been justified. Spokesman of the Senate,...
The Senate, on Thursday, rejected two, out of the 47 non-career ambassadorial nominees, sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 12th, 2017. The two...
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded 27 names of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to the Senate for approval. The names read on the floor of the Senate,...
Barely a day after the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Lawal, told the Senate that he would not honour an invitation extended...
Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, on Wednesday, told lawmakers that he would not honour an invitation extended to him by...
The Senate, on Wednesday, approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to raise additional $500 million Eurobond from the international capital market to fund the 2016...
The Nigeria Customs Service seems not to be deterred by the sequence of drama surrounding its policy on vehicle duties. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed...
Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Comptroller General, Hameed Ali, will no longer appear before the Senate on Wednesday following a law suit filed at the Federal High...
Uncomfortable with the face-off between Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd) and the Senate, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded plans to...
Controversial Kogi born Senator, Dino Melaye, on Tuesday, caused a stir on the floor of the Senate when he addressed himself as a Sheikh, following his...
The Senate, on Tuesday, gave nod to a motion, sponsored by the immediate-past Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, wherein he called on the Red Chamber to investigate...
The raging controversy between the Senate and the Presidency is yet to abate over the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has said that following the Senate rejection of the nomination of...