An aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Maryam Uwais has faulted some of the claims the leadership of the National Assembly made on National social investment programme...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider placing a travel ban on countries with high risk of coronavirus. The request was...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Monday the National Assembly leadership discussed the parliament last week’s resolution on the service chiefs during their Monday meeting...
The President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday held a closed-door with the leadership of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was attended by...
A former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy scam, Farouk Lawan, told the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court that the...
The recent upward review of the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate from 5% to 7.5%, which implementation is timed to take effect from 1st February, will not affect ordinary Nigerians,...
The Nigerian Senate on Monday said that President Muhammadu Buhari has given his approval for its N37 billion request for the renovation of the National Assembly...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has declared that the controversial Hate Speech and Internet Falsehoods and Manipulations and other related Matters Bill will...
A bill which seeks to end discrimination against female officers in the Nigerian Police Force was on Thursday introduced to the Nigerian Senate. The bill wants...
The Senate on Thursday, asked its committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal matters to investigate last Friday’s invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja by...
A bill which seeks for freedom from hunger, right to adequate food of acceptable quality and the right of every child to basic nutrition, was on...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday explained why the upper legislative chamber has yet to set up a committee on the review of the...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday granted leave to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari,...
President Muhammadu Buhari shot straight from the hips last week. In doing so, he expressed concern over the failure of constituency projects, inserted into the country’s...
Issues of budget padding, and constituency projects have resurfaced, making the news as another circle of budget submission, defence and approval plays out between the executive...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan has said that the Senate will from the next budget circle increase funding for security agencies and anti-corruption bodies...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday rued the country’s inability to fix its power sector challenges, saying past expenditures had yielded no commensurate...
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan is of the opinion that Nigeria needs to learn from the experiences of Egypt in the area of combating...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday that the National Assembly would provide the necessary support to the anti-corruption agencies in the fight against...
A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the temporary forfeiture of two houses in Ikoyi area of Lagos State said to belong to the...
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....
The Nigeria Senate on Wednesday decried the activities of kidnappers and bandits on highways across the country. On how to stop the menace, Senate President Ahmad...
A slap, a frown The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on September 20, 2019, invited service chiefs to discuss the bad security situation...
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 on Wednesday received the 2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) from President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari submitted the...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has announced chairpersons for the Senate Standing Committees. During plenary on Tuesday, Lawan announced 69 committees for the Senate. The announcement was...
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...
Nigerian Senate will on Wednesday, July 24, begin screening and confirmation of the 43 ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed...
As the race to occupy juicy positions in the incoming Ninth National Assembly hots up, Senate leader, Ahmed Lawan, has suggested that open voting is a...
We have always pledged to Nigeria’s unity. But we have not gone beyond this ritual and work at it. How can we assert, “Nigeria’s unity is...
The pair of Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila have both received a boost in their aspirations to man key positions in the incoming Ninth Assembly after...
Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has tacitly admitted that its favoured candidate for Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, has been involved in on-going...
More support has continued to come the way of Senator Ahmed Lawan in his bid to be the next Senate President of the incoming Ninth Assembly...
The ambition of Senator Ahmed Lawan to be the next Senate Leader of the incoming Ninth Assembly has just received a boost after no less than...
A looming crises seems to be on the horizon in the search for the Senate President for the ninth National Assembly of the Federal Republic of...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Senate Majority Leader, Ahmad Lawan, Thursday argued over the party with the highest number of senators. Lawan had raised a...
The All Progressives Congress and its Senate caucus are considering no fewer than three senators to replace the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Saturday...
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...
The APC on Saturday settled for Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate president, and Senator George Akume as Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate. This was...
The decision of the APC to dump zoning and pick candidates by consensus for the Senate leadership is threatening to tear the party apart, even before...
