The Senate on Thursday summoned the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung, before it on Thursday April 19, by 2pm, to brief it...
After consultations and a debate among parliamentarians, the Senator tasked with reviewing President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment process has recommended that she be put on trial for...
The Senate said on Wednesday, that it would begin the process of enacting a law that would prescribe capital punishment for kidnappers. It also called on...
The debate on the controversial new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the Senate failed on Tuesday, as members of the upper chamber refused to take the...
In what clearly is a twist, George Uboh, the Abuja based security expert that petitioned the Senate over alleged diversion of over N1 trillion by the...
Fresh findings have revealed how the emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate caused the on-going budget impasse. According...
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Accountant General of the Federation are in a dilemma over how to deal with the Senate request to cancel...
Forces within the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are neck deep in serious plans for a post-Saraki Senate Presidency, Ripples can authoritatively...
Peter Claver Oparah…For Bukola Saraki, the embattled Senate President, it never rains but pours. He has enjoyed a permanently stormy tenure since he went at his...
Ripples Nigeria has learnt that what began as an innocuous award to Deputy Senate President,Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday has created serious unease in the camp of...
In what may be a tactical move, the Senate on Wednesday, suspended further action on the controversial amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal...
The Nigerian Senate Tuesday, denied buying 108 new luxury Sport Utility Vehicles, SUV, adding that only 36 were bought. According to the upper chamber of the...
The trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal has pitched the Tribunal’s chairman, Danladi Umar with lawmakers who seem bent...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised objections to the new Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill 2016, Ripples has learnt. According to informed...
Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (cct), Danladi Umar, said on Monday that the Senate can still hold its sittings while its president, Bukola Saraki...
Legislators in Brazil have casted their vote in favour of impeaching incumbent President Dilma Rousseff over corruption charges. Tens of thousand gathered in the capital of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday described the ongoing amendment of the act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has mandated the Senate Committee on Power to liaise with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Federal Ministry of Finance...
The Senate seems to have put on a fast track, a bill to amend the Act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and its tribunal....
Senators loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki are using the 2016 Budget row to negotiate a soft-landing for the former Kwara State Governor, who is facing...
Nigerian Senate, Wednesday, mandated its Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), Finance and Appropriation to immediately investigate joint venture cash calls by the Nigeria...
Contrary to the stand of the Senate that it would not re-examine the controversial 2016 budget, the House of Representatives says it will take another look...
The rancour created by the executive and legislative arms of government over the 2016 budget deepened Tuesday as both arms of government maintained their stands, unwilling...
The Senate on Monday, sent a message to the Presidency to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of...
The trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is beginning to take a toll on the unity of senators,...
The order of the National Assembly for the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, to seal the Kogi State House of Assembly, Lokoja, was today...
After a barage of criticism from several quarters, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, Tuesday, apologised to Nigerians for his statement that he...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has barred the Senate and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, from arresting the immediate past Chairman of...
The Senate has passed the 2016 budget on Wednesday which was sent to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, on December 22,...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki says that the National Assembly has not passed the 2016 budget because it wants to do a thorough job of it to make...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has indicated that a new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, is set to be re-presented in the National Assembly, next...
Senators Stella Oduah and Ben Murray-Bruce have both dissociated themselves from the actions of their colleagues over the gender equality bill, that was rejected on the...
The Senate has taken up a petition forwarded to it by concerned Nigerians over what is alleged to be discriminatory promotions in the Nigerian Police Force....
The Senate has hinted of plans to run integrity test on the Auditor General of the Federation’s audit report, Ripples has learnt. This development was confirmed...
The lower legislative chamber has assured that the 2016 budget will be passed by 17th March. Giving this assurance on Sunday was the Chairman, House Committee...
The plan by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachicwu, to restructure the NNPC, Thursdayelicited different reactions from the two chambers of the...
The Senate on Wednesday invited the minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, over the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The...
The Senate seeks to pass a Bill that will enable repatriation and prosecution of suspected Nigerian looters and their accomplices living abroad. The lawmakers on Wednesday...
The Media Office of Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has raised an alerted over attempts he said were made by forces behind his on-going trial...
The Federal Government, Monday, explained why it accepted part payment on the fine imposed on telecommunications company, MTN. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,...
Against the outcry that greeted its intention to procure new exotic vehicles for lawmakers in the face of the nation’s dwindling economy, the office of the...
The controversies trailing the implementation of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, came to a head on Wednesday, as the Senate directed the Central Bank of Nigeria...
In spite of the fact that a Federal High Court in Lagos, refused an application by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, seeking to stay further...
The Senate on Sunday said that the move by some governors under the Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) to negotiate for a loan from the Kingdom...
The Senate which had earlier stated that it was not feasible to pass the 2016 budget on the scheduled February 25 date has raised hopes that...
The Senate on Thursday sanctioned the prosecution of top civil servants over the discovery of 23, 000 ghost workers on government payroll reportedly uncovered during the...
The upper legislative chamber has queried the N19billion vote allocated to the Police out of the N53billion initially earmarked in the 2016 budget. The lawmakers also...
The Senate, on Monday, explained why it rejected the 2016 Budget, saying the version submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters,...
The Nigerian Senate, Monday, announced that it has 30 bills of interest that fast track the change agenda of the current administration slated for the 2016...
The Senate was on Thursday faced with a dilemma, as it had in its possession, two versions of the 2016 proposed budget which were both submitted...