Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that state Houses of Assembly which are excessively dependent on governors cannot deliver dividends of...
Chile Okoroma, Director, Legal and Prosecution of the EFCC, said this on Wednesday at a hearing organised by the Senate Anti-Corruption Committee. The committee had invited...
The Nigerian Senate said it has been vindicated on its rejection of the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to intimate it on steps he has taken in resolving herders-farmers’ clashes in the country, particularly, the recent killings...
The Senate on Wednesday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to appear before its Senate committees on Police Affairs and National Intelligence, following...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its standing committee on Banking to invite the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, managing directors of...
The Senate, on Thursday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to end long queues in petrol stations...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was on Tuesday, named by Dino Melaye in a new multi-million dollar fraud scandal. According to Senator Melaye who spoke...
The Senate, on Thursday, indicted the Presidency, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government, for violating the constitution and other laws of the land,...
There was an uproar on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, when Senator Sunday Ogbuoji rescinded his earlier decision to defect to the ruling All...
The Senate has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to explain to Nigerians why he has been running around the...
There was a mild drama earlier today, when three persons introduced themselves as national presidents of the Independent Marketers Petroleum Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). The trio...
The much anticipated cabinet expansion and reshuffle by President Muhammadu Buhari will no longer be possible this year, Daily Trust reports. The Senate would hold its...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, forwarded nine fresh names of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to the Senate for confirmation. Reading the letter from Buhari, President of...
The fragile relationship between the Senate and the Executive arm of government, may have collapsed, with the 2018 budget proposals of the federal government bearing the...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday came down hard on the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for doing a shoddy job of the 2018 budget. In very unmistakable terms,...
Senate committee on Power, on Monday, questioned the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shahuru and the Permanent Secretary, Frank Edozie, over...
The travails of Senate President Bukola Saraki, over charges of false asset declaration, may not be over as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on...
Almost one week after the 2018 budget passed second reading on the floor of the Senate, the upper legislative chamber is yet to release the timetable,...
It is another budget season, and lawmakers from both chambers of the National Assembly, are going to be busy until the budget is passed. In a...
The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, said it will include a clause in the 2018 Appropriation Act that will stop the Executive from spending excess funds realised...
The Senate has passed the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) In the passed documents, Senate pegged the exchange rate...
Senators, on Thursday, expressed concerns, over what they described as the increasing debt profile of the country. Solomon Adeola, urged the Senate committee on Local and...
The Senate on Wednesday, called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invite the Libyan Ambassador to Nigeria and discuss how to end the ongoing Libyan...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, blamed anti-graft agencies in the country of making it difficult for the Federal Government to convince other nations...
The Senate, on Tuesday, hinted that it may summon Service Chiefs to brief it behind closed door, over the resurgence of Boko Haram activities in North...
Senator Emmanuel Paulker, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the reinstatement and promotion of the former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions, Abdulrasheed Maina, on...
The Senate, on Thursday, refused to confirm the nomination of Ahmed Bello Mahmud as a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) representing Zamfara state. The action of the...
The Senate Wednesday revealed that the refusal of some officials of government to honour its invitation for the consideration of templates contained in the 2018 budget was frustrating...
One day after operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Department of State Services (DSS), and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), were engaged...
President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly. He conveyed his decision via a letter to the Senate. The bills...
Contrary to its earlier plan to commence a debate on the general principles of the 2018 budget, the Senate has announced the deferment of the exercise...
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has revealed that the upper legislative chamber will begin the consideration of the general principles of the 2018 budget...
The Senate, on Wednesday, said anarchy looms, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The Red Chamber contended that if the security agents are not called to...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its standing committees on Finance and Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions to probe allegations of unremitted stamp duties revenue, valued...
The Senate, on Tuesday, said a former Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, can resume today, 15th November, having served out his suspension of 90...
Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has revealed that he offered to resign three times as helsman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Red...
Justice Babatunde Quadri, of the federal High court in Abuja has voided the suspension of former Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, by the...
Indications emerged on Thursday that the Senate may summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, following the death of 26 Nigerian girls in the...
The Senate, on Thursday, gave nod to Ogun State to secure a Development Policy Operation (DPO) loan of $350 million from the World Bank. The loan...
Police officers attached to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, have blocked journalists covering the Senate from gaining access to the venue of the...
The upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly has said it will no longer engage in any future face-off with the executive arm of government. It...
Some senators who served as former governors between 1999 and 2015, on Tuesday, frustrated plans by the Red Chamber to investigate the administrations of Presidents Olusegun...
Barely one day after Senate ad hoc committee investigating various allegations leveled against the Police and the Police Service Commission (PSC), threatened to issue a warrant...
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, may be arrested next week, if he fails to appear before the adhoc committee investigating various allegations levelled against...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to make adequate financial provision in the 2018 Budget for the take-off of the North East Development Commission...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday failed to adopt a clandestine move to endorse an automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s...
The Senate, on Tuesday, jubilated over the sack of the David Babachir Lawal, as Secretary to Government of the Federation, by President Muhammadu Buhari, following the...
The Senate has mandated President Muhammadu Buhari to act swiftly and bring those behind the reinstatement of the former chairman of Presidential Task Team on Pension...
Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has shocked senators with his assertion that he did not know the cost of the second Abuja airport runway....