The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of Modibbo Tukur as the pioneer Director of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). The confirmation was made at...
The Nigerian Senate abruptly adjourned on Tuesday five minutes into plenary for its inability to form a quorum. The day’s plenary, which started at 10:30am ended...
The Nigerian Senate has for the fourth time passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The bill was passed after the joint report of the Senate and...
The Senate on Tuesday resumed sitting but immediately adjourned to honor a colleague in the House of Representatives, Funke Adedoyin, who died last Friday in Abuja....
By Jerome-Mario Utomi… It is a common knowledge that the National Water Resources Bill is before the Nigerian Upper Legislative Assembly-the Senate. But what is uncertain...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has hinted at the possibility that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will challenge the decision of some...
Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, has described the 8th senate under the leadership of Bukola Saraki as the worst in Nigeria’s history. Speaking in an...
Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) still has a majority in the Senate with 52 lawmakers. Lawan made this statement after a...
Fifteen senators on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday dumped the ruling party for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senate President...
The Senate was on Thursday thrown into a rowdy session as it’s President, Bukola Saraki directed its Committee on Federal Character to investigate President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reacted to the Supreme Court’s acquittal of Senate President Bukola Saraki, commending Saraki for showing confidence in the judiciary. Buhari’s remarks...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has reiterated his confidence in the judicial process and the ability of the Judiciary to do justice to all manner...
A court in Oshogbo, the Osun state capital, has ordered the National Assembly to commence impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari. A Federal High Court presided...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered Atai Aidoko, the senator representing Kogi East senatorial district, to vacate the National Assembly. At its sitting...
“Finally, the National Assembly will not hesitate to invoke its constitutional powers (against President Muhammadu Buhari led executive) if nothing is done to address the above...
Senate President Bukola Saraki says he has sent his written response on allegations concerning the Offa robbery to the police. The police had invited Saraki over...
The National Assembly has embarked on a four-week recess. The leadership of the two chambers of announced this after their respective plenaries. The lawmakers are to...
Worried by the recent resolution of the Senate against him, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja. He...
The fragile peace between the Legislative and the Executive arms of the Nigerian government seems to have finally collapsed as members of the National Assembly rose...
Following his dramatic move in the senate during Wednesday’s plenary which saw him swap his seat from the designated area of the ruling All Progressives Congress...
The National Commandant, Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), Dickson Akoh, has reignited hope that, despite its setbacks, the Peace Corps bill may still be assented to....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday grilled former immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero, at its office in the state. The...
A Bill to have control of water resources concentrated in the hands of the Federal Government on Thursday caused a sharp division in the Senate between...
The Senate on Wednesday, resolved to consider approving special funding for security agencies in the country. The special funding will enable the agencies tackle the spate...
A delegation of Nigerian Senate is in a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari over the worrying face-off between the legislature and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP),...
Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South, has expressed his regrets for supporting Bukola Saraki’s emergence as senate president. The lawmaker accused Saraki of targeting those...
Following Senate President Bukola Saraki’s allegation that the police were trying to implicate him in a case involving some arrested cultists, the police have confirmed the...
The Senate on Wednesday failed in its Stay of Execution plea before an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. The Senate...
The fallout from the theft of the mace of the Nigerian Senate continues with a potential new crisis phase on the horizon as the Senate and...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday passed into law the repeal and re-enactment of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), which, according to the Senate, “is...
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on Tuesday, failed to attend Senate’s plenary, despite series of boasts that he will storm the chamber. At about 10.50am, the Senate resumed...
The 2018 budget report by the Joint Senate and House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriation would be laid today, Ripples Nigeria has learnt. According to a...
The Nigeria police has responded to the Senate’s latest publicity accusing the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, of being afraid of his own shadow...
Awka, the capital of Anambra State witnessed a protest on Friday by scores of youths against the Nigerian Senate over its frequent invitations sent to the...
The suspension saga between the Senate and the senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Ovie Omo-Agege, is not yet over as the upper chamber of the...
The senate has responded to Ibrahim Idris, Inspector-General of Police (IGP), claiming that contrary to his defence for refusing to honour their invitation, the issue of...
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has reacted to Senate response on Wednesday after he turned down the lawmakers’ invitation for three consecutive times. The...
The Divisional Police Officer stationed in the National Assembly, Sulu-Gambari Abdul, Wednesday blamed internal conspiracy for the April 18 invasion of the Senate and theft of...
Shehu Sani, Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debt, has responded to Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s tirade against him and the other senators representing...
By Joseph Edgar… This is a season of anomie. A season where everything goes, where we realise with sad reflection that we are now firmly in...
Senate President Bukola Saraki, and other senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been dragged to court over the alleged illegal reception of N13.5 million...
Twenty four hours after some hoodlums invaded the Senate and carted away the mace, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has returned it to...
Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central, has reacted to the invasion of the senate chambers and theft of the mace by suspected thugs, denying any...
The lawmaker suspected to be the brain behind the snatching of the Senate mace on Wednesday, Ovie Omo-Agege has been arrested by the police. The senator...
The Nigerian Senate has resolved to transmit the ‘Not too young to run’ bill and 11 others to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The decision was taken...
Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Nigerian Senate have been dragged to an Abuja Federal High court by people of Delta Central senatorial district of Delta...
The Kogi State police command has confirmed the re-arrest of three of the six suspects involved in the arms case against Senator Dino Melaye who were...
Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) held a meeting on Wednesday. APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, was at the...
The National Assembly has been ordered to halt further actions on the 2018 Electoral Act amendment bill which seeks to reorder the election sequence as proposed...
Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who was recently accused of plotting to sack Senate President Bukola Saraki, has said that the National Assembly is sabotaging the government of...