President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has disclosed that a national public hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution will hold from Thursday, June 3...
At a plenary, last week, Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi-sponsored bill – Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 – sought to imprison for 15 years distraught Nigerians who...
The spokesman of the Nigerian Senate, Ajibola Basiru, has told the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), to stop making...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts (SPAC), has given the management of the National Examination Council (NECO) 24 hours to provide verifiable evidence of payment for...
The bill seeking the establishment of the Federal Sports University of Nigeria, Nkalagu, Ebonyi State, scaled second reading in Senate on Wednesday. The bill was sponsored...
The Senate has proposed a 15-year-jail term for any Nigerian who pays ransom to kidnappers. The bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to halt the planned deployment of 5G network technology in Nigeria. The upper legislative chamber made the call...
The Senate on Wednesday suspended plenary for one week to enable its members participate in the zonal public hearing across the country. The President of the...
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Ministry of Education, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to review the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sought the approval of the Senate for an external loan of 6.183 billion dollars, to fund the deficit of N5.602triillon in the...
The Senate Committee on Finance has indicted the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), alleging fraud to the tune of over N7 billion. The Chairman of the...
The Senate has announced that zonal hearings for a constitutional review are scheduled to commence on May 26. This was contained in a statement issued by...
The Senate has disclosed that Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) are yet to remit over N3 trillion to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal...
The Senate on Thursday held a closed door session with the country’s service chiefs, the inspector General of Police and heads of intelligence agencies in the...
The Nigerian Senate Sunday explained the rationale behind the lack of indictment of Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications despite widespread uproar over his links with...
The Nigerian Senate has decried the dominance of foreign operators in the employment of personnel in the nation’s diving sector. Specifically, the Chairman, Senate Committee on...
The Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a civil society coalition, has tasked the Senate over the institution of an agency towards ensuring investigations of...
These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you. 1. Remi Tinubu calls Sen Adeyemi ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ for tackling Buhari over insecurity Wife...
The Senate on Wednesday approved N216.64 billion as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The upper legislative chamber’s approval followed...
The Senate has passed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Amendment Bill. This followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Banking,...
Wife of former Lagos State governor and Senator representing Lagos Central at the Senate, Remi Tinubu, has attacked her colleague, Smart Adeyemi (Kogi West), for daring...
The Senate on Tuesday asked its leadership to arrange a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on the nation’s security challenges. The upper legislative chamber took the...
Senator Mohammed Sani Musa (representing Niger East) has confirmed that the Boko Haram sect has hoisted its flag in some villages in his home state. He...
The senate on Wednesday, April 21, commenced the process towards a constitutional amendment in order to make the use of card readers compulsory for elections in...
The Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of N257.18 billion as the Nigerian Customs Service budget for 2021. The upper legislative chamber also approved the N1.678...
The Senate has revealed its decision to investigate an alleged assault on a security guard by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar....
The Senate on Monday challenged governors of the 36 states in the country to grant full autonomy to the judiciary in their various states. President Muhammadu...
A coalition of civil society groups on Thursday, expressed disappointment with the National Assembly for failing to meet the deadline set for the passage of the...
The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed the nomination of Dr Halilu Shaba as the Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NSRDA). The confirmation followed...
The Senate resumed plenary on Tuesday, April 13, after a fortnight break, and adjourned sitting till Wednesday due to the demise of two lawmakers Ripples Nigeria...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, on Thursday, appealed to striking resident doctors to return to work, saying “any soul that dies as a...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Wednesday commenced investigation into the alleged sale of two Prado jeeps for N1.5million by officials of the Lake Chad...
A legal practitioner, Omang Omang on Wednesday, April 7, appealed to the Senate President Ahmed Lawan to ban the current occupant of the Cross River North...
The Federal Government on Tuesday explained to the Senate how it intends to spend the 995million euros and $1.5 billion loan request. According to the Minister...
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has again, summoned the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, giving him up till Thursday, to appear before...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Sunday, March 28, issued another summons to the management of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for clarification of its...
In an audacious move, the Senate on Wednesday, March 24, introduced a bill seeking to amend the Police Act, 2020 The new bill titled ‘The Nigeria...
The Senate on Wednesday, March 24, adopted a motion to end the hardship being faced by Nigerians abroad in obtaining and renewing their passports. It, therefore,...
The Senate on Wednesday proceeded on the Easter holiday. The upper legislative chamber will resume plenary on April 13. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the...
The Senate has approved the establishment of the National Agricultural Development Fund for the purpose of providing finance to support strategic aspects of agricultural development of...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) will soon be reformed to strengthen its debt recovery authourity after the Senate passed a bill to amend the...
A bill seeking to amend the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Act scaled the second reading at the Senate on Tuesday. The bill was sponsored...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Mr. Wakil Bukar as Commissioner in the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC). This followed the adoption of the...
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...
A bill to amend the Labour Act to provide for upward review of fines on violations of labour laws on Tuesday, March 16, scaled second reading...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has directed Petroleum Products Pricing Regulators Agency (PPPRA) to provide the list of beneficiaries who collected N120 billion as payment...
The Senate, on Wednesday, March 10, resolved to carry out an amendment of the Nigerian Constitution to expunge any aspect that infringes on the rights of...
Senate Committee of Finance will begin its investigation of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) over their compliance with laws on remittance of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will face Senate committee today, Tuesday, over alleged missing $9.5 million interest. The fund was from the...
Supporters of Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, and his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, have clashed over an alleged plan to recall Okorocha as the Senator representing Imo...