The senate marshalled by Ahmad Lawan has been convincing in confirming the stereotypes and assumptions about the institution. In July, I wrote about Lawan’s obsequiousness and...
The Senate Wednesday summoned the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd), over the ban on fuel supply to communities close to the...
The Senate on Wednesday approved N10 billion loan refunds to the Kogi State government. The Senate approval came just three days before the governorship election in...
Where the media are free, the market place of ideas sorts the irresponsible from the responsible and rewards the later——-Anonymous For media practitioners, oddities -particularly, human...
A bill for the establishment of a commission for the control of hate speech passed the first reading during plenary at Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The...
Lawmaker representing Imo East Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, has again called for the reduction in the number of federal legislators in the country. He insisted that...
A bill seeking to establish a commission for the prohibition of hate speech passed first reading on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday. The bill...
The budget defence of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), may have run into a hitch, as the Senate has queried the documents it supplied during the...
Worried by the growing menace of kidnappers and criminal bandits in various parts of the country, the Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to purchase...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Wednesday dismissed the appeal filed by the Senate spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye and declared Senator Abiodun Olujimi as duly...
The Senate on Tuesday reintroduced the controversial bill designed to regulate social media activities in the country, despite the outcries that followed its first introduction during...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Justice John Tsoho as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. The upper legislative chamber also confirmed...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed 15 people for the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) out of the 16 nominees sent to...
The Court of Appeal, Ibadan, on Friday dismissed the petition filed by a former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, challenging the verdict of the National...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday questioned why the Federal Ministry of Power allocated N600 million to Distribution Companies (Discos). The Senate argued, that Discos were privatised...
The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernment Affairs on Monday quizzed representatives of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) over alleged secret recruitments into some federal...
The Senate on Tuesday gave the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) two weeks for the defence of their annual budget proposals. The upper legislative chamber stated...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday requested for the resolution of the National Assembly on the issuance of N10.069 billion for promissory note programme of Kogi State...
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, on Friday revealed that the Nigerian Airforce was bridging the gaps in its operations as a way...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursdays continued the debate on the general principles of the 2020 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar. has applauded the Senate for re-introducing the anti-sexual harassment bill....
Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has shared a similar view recently expressed by Senator Rochas Okorocha, that Nigeria needs a unicameral federal legislature. But unlike Okorocha,...
The Senate on Wednesday revisited the sexual harassment bill which was sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and passed by the 8th Senate....
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday started debate on the general principles of the 2020 Appropriation Bill submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday challenged Nigerian senators to make road rehabilitation and construction their constituency projects. The minister threw the...
The Senate has passed the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) submitted earlier to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Committee...
The Senate on Thursday, revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2020 Appropriations Bill to joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday next week....
A bill seeking to impose a nine percent tax on Nigerians for using communication and cable television services in the country on Wednesday passed the first...
The Nigerian Senate has asked three of its committees to immediately probe seven International Oil Companies (IOCs) for alleged refusal to remit to the government about...
The Nigerian Senate has referred the 2020-2022 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) documents to its Finance Committee. The committee, which has one...
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what...
A lawmaker has vehemently warned against the adoption of the Malam Nasir el-Rufai’s APC Committee report on true federalism, describing part of the report as injurious...
Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday, said that the nation’s security architecture had not achieved the desired results of providing the needed security to citizens....
The Nigerian Senate has invited the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to come and explain the gas contract to...
The Nigerian Senate has said that it would on Wednesday (tomorrow) inaugurate its standing committees. This was announced by Senate President Ahmad Lawan after a closed-door...
The National Assembly has issued a warning to all revenue generating federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) engaging in diversion of revenues to desist from the...
The Senate on Monday described a suit seeking to stop it from spending N5.5 billion on the purchase of vehicles for its principal officers as an...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 6,721 concerned Nigerians have dragged the National Assembly Service Commission to court in...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has described as absurd and unacceptable the attack on the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu was to give a keynote...
The leadership of the Senate has denied claims by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly, Senate, Ita Enang that there is a...
In a bid to stop the Senate from carrying out its takeover threat, the Edo State House of Assembly, has run to an Abuja Federal High...
Vocal former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has slammed the Senate over its mode of screening for ministerial nominees. In a post on his official Twitter handle,...
The Senate on Tuesday, confirmed all 43 of the ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari, after it’s screening exercise. Buhari had on Tuesday,...
The Nigerian Senate on Monday vowed to write the South African Government in efforts to ensure the killing of Nigerians in that country is brought to...
The House of Representatives has said it made a mistake in its resolutions on the crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly. According to a...
Majority of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari may be disqualified except they are able to provide their asset declaration certificate by...
The Nigerian Senate has screened 24 of the 43 ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari sent to it on Tuesday. The screening continues today (Friday) as the...
Nigerian senators on Wednesday fumed at perceived patiality of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, during the screening of ministerial nominees. This happened when the former Transportation...
President Muhammadu Buhari In Wednesday swore-In Ibrahim Tanko as the substantive CJN following his screening and approval by the Senate. President Buhari swore him in at...
Paul Ibe, spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari on the release of his ministerial list. Ibe claimed that the President was only directing...