Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Engr. Elias Mbam, Chairman, Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to “urgently review upward the remuneration, allowances,...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, seems to have found a new pastime of making disclosures on those allegedly fueling challenges plaguing Nigeria. Last week,...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has clarified that the current legislative arm of government is not a rubber stamp National Assembly. This was in response to claims...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Saturday the Nigerian elite were championing the course for the country’s break-up. The Senate President, according to a statement...
Ahmad Lawan, the Senate President, on Wednesday, March 31, criticised the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari over the rejection of some National Assembly bills. Lawan made...
The Senate on Sunday launched an inquest into dealings in the Finance Ministry over its failure to account for N2.77billion released from the service-wide vote. The...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi...
Last week, the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, made a sensitive disclosure bordering on Nigeria’s deplorable security situation. He, without mincing words, named the sponsors...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday, drug barons provide the Boko Haram insurgents and bandits with funds to procure arms and ammunition and wreak...
Last week, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, revealed his worries over the possible negative effects of the never-ending farmers-herders clashes. Already, the clashes have bred mutual...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, March 2, bemoaned the current trend of kidnapping which he said has become “an industry” with quite...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has implored President Muhammadu Buhari to effect the transfer of the former service chiefs to neighbouring countries as ambassadors. Lawan made...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday held a closed-doors meeting with the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Lawan, who briefed State House correspondents...
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has backed the call by Senate President, Ahmed Lawan that some governors of the South-West geopolitical zone have to be cautioned...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has accused governors in the South-West of fueling the recent spate of ethnic crisis which erupted in some states...
Following the nomination of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday, the Senate President Ahmad Lawan says the...
At a time when farmers-herdsmen conflict is threatening to tear the South-West region apart, and sow ethnic tension across Nigeria, prominent political office holders are speaking...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has berated those he described as ethnic champions and politicians for stoking the herdsmen crisis rocking parts of the country. He...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday frowned at state governors in the North-West negotiating with bandits, insisting that such negotiation is fuelling banditry in the country. The...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday gave the Senate joint committees of Army, Air Force and Navy two weeks to screen the new service chiefs...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to nominate an indigene of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as a non-career ambassador. Lawan...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila to “to urgently...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, last week spoilt the fun for critics who continue to see everything wrong with the seeming open romance between...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday the upper legislative chamber would not fight President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity in Nigeria to please...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday Nigeria would generate more revenue from the oil and gas industry with the passage of the Petroleum Industry...
President Muhammadu Buhari, like many are wont to do at the beginning of each year, shared with his countrymen a couple of ‘new year resolutions’. To...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, last week lent his voice to efforts being made to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, a challenge that has brought all countries of...
There was rage in the National Assembly (NASS) past week as Senators boiled in anger over perceived disregard, by President Muhammadu Buhari, of their resolutions on...
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that Nigerians can no longer stand with President Muhammadu Buhari considering the supposed pains his government had...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has called on Nigerians to continue to stand with President Muhammadu Buhari. Lawan stated this in his birthday message to Buhari on...
The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the federal lawmakers would hold a special session on Monday, December 21, to consider and pass the...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has sworn in former Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa West) and three other newly elected senators. The three other senators are...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has revealed when the Upper House will pass the Electoral Act Amendment Bill while also giving assurance on the repeal of...
The Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers and Advocates (COPA) has urged the National Assembly to organize a public debate for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as...
Lawan’s jab On November 19, the President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, called on Nigerians to punish lawmakers, who they perceive to have performed poorly,...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Friday the National Assembly is doing everything within its power to ensure the passage of the 2021 Budget by...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, told Nigerians on Friday to vote out all the members of the ninth National Assembly in 2023 if they don’t like...
Ndume’s grouse For the umpteenth time, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has kicked against Nigerian Government’s reintegration of repentant Boko Haram members into...
Senate President Ahmed Lawan, on Monday reassured that the National Assembly (NASS) would ensure victims of alleged brutality by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) got justice....
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has warned that any ministry that failed to defend its 2021 budget by the first week of November should forget about...
#EndSARS realities On October 7, the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, argued that banning the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) would not bring a solution to...
#SARSMustEnd protesters have been urged by Senate President Ahmad Lawan to drop their protest and go back home to allow the government implement their demands. Lawan...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that President Muhammadu Buhari yielding to the demand of Nigeria on Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), was a demonstration of good...
The National Assembly has promised that the 2021 Appropriation Bill would be passed before the end of this year. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan...
Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday argued that the recent ban placed on Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) would not solve problems of extrajudicial killings by...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday present the 2021 budget estimates to a joint sitting of the two chambers of the National Assembly on Thursday. Buhari...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila...
The burden of responsibility thrust President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the centre stage last week. While Buhari angered the populace by supervising...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has said that disrespect by President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees would no longer be tolerated by the National Assembly....
