The Senate on Wednesday raised the alarm over the unending ocean surge in Aiyetoro community in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. It also...
The Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Thursday screen the commission’s chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for another term of five years....
The Nigerian Senate has mandated its committees on Legislative Compliance and Communications to summon the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami. The lawmakers...
The Nigerian Senate has called on the Federal Government to provide assistance in the rebuilding of public and private institutions destroyed in Lagos and other states...
The Senate has said it has no knowledge about plans by the Nigerian government to concession or sell some national assets to fund the 2021 budget....
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has integrity and the competence to lead but being betrayed...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to fast tract action on the prosecution of sponsors of the deadly Boko Haram sect. The call...
The Senate on Tuesday rejected the N110 billion allocated to the judiciary in the 2021 budget estimates of the Federal Government, insisting that it was grossly...
The Senate said on Monday it would open an investigation into the conviction of six Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for funding the Boko...
The Nigerian Senate says it is not aware of the freezing of the accounts of some #EndSARS campaigners by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The...
State House officials have been urged to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari, from embarking on foreign trips for medical treatment. The call was made by the Senate...
The Senate told the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that he had a lot of explanation to make on a controversial N250 million project...
The Senate on Sunday knocked the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), over his statement on the state of Nigerian roads. The upper...
The Senate Committee on Power has querried the allocation of 20 power projects for Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State in the 2021 budget of...
The Senate Committee on Power Monday reacted furiously to a statement by Minister of Power Mamman Saleh that the $5.8 billion Mambilla Power Project had not...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by the Senate to urgently address Nigerians over the ongoing #EndSARS protest in different parts of the country. The federal...
The Senate on Friday night urged the Federal Government to fast-track the implementation of the #ENDSARS protesters’ five-point demand. Senate Spokesperson, Dr. Ajibola Basiru, made the...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, has informed that 25 out of 36 states of the federation have domesticated the Child Rights Act which was...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of eight Justices of the Court of Appeal as Justices of the Supreme Court. President Muhammadu Buhari recently...
The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.08 trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari presented the proposed 2021 appropriation bill before a joint...
The Nigerian Senate has ordered the immediate arrest of those responsible for the killing of scores of protests during demonstrations against the perceived brutality meted out...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has introduced an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to the Senate leadership. This was...
The Senate on Wednesday mandated its Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions to investigate the alleged illicit and excess charges by commercial banks in...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to scrap redundant agencies in order to save the cost of governance in the country. The Senate President,...
The Senate on Wednesday passed the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) for the fiscal years. The passage followed the adoption...
The Nigerian Senate has expressed the desire to have the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reformed and rebranded in its fight against corruption, economic and...
The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 has passed first reading in the Nigerian Senate. The controversial bill scaled first reading during the plenary of the lawmakers...
The Senate on Tuesday warned against Nigeria’s adoption of measures used in fighting COVID-19 in Europe, America and China. The federal lawmakers gave the warning at...
The Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has extended the deadline for submission of memoranda by two weeks. The Special Adviser on...
The joint National Assembly Committee on Ecology and Climate Change has decried the slow pace at which the Ogoni cleanup exercise was being carried out. The...
The Nigerian Senate has extended the date for the closure of submission of memoranda for the amendment of the constitution. The Senate, in its review of...
The unsettled fight On September 1, Nigerian Senators distanced themselves from an allegation heaped on them by the Director of Projects in the Niger Delta Development...
Pan-Yoruba Summit Group (YSG), has kicked against the planned review of the 1999 constitution set to be embarked upon by the Nigerian Senate. They said; “there...
The Nigerian Senate has responded to the claim that its members collected N20 million from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as COVID-19 palliative. NDDC’s Interim...
That hurried vacation On August 19, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, made public the suspension of all investigative and committee hearings...
The Senate has ordered the Accountant-General of the Federation Ahmed Idris to conduct an inquiry into the $18.32 billion allegedly paid as dividends by the Nigerian...
The Nigerian Senate on Friday found it difficult to see why the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) only remitted N44.5 billion into the Consolidated Revenue Fund,...
Senator Opeyemi Bamidele on Sunday said restructuring remains the best option for the country. Bamidele, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and...
The Senate will begin its annual eight-week vacation from Friday. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who made the announcement during Thursday’s plenary, said the senators would...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday took far reaching decisions on the crisis ridden Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), calling for the immediate sack of its Interim...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of 39 ambassadors-designate that would represent the country on foreign missions. Those confirmed by the upper legislative chamber were...
The two chambers of the National Assembly on Tuesday, separately resolved to stop the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, from handling the...
The Senate on Tuesday received from President Muhammadu Buhari, the 2021 – 2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper. The MTEF/FSP document forwarded to...
Two groups of protesters have clashed at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, over the ongoing probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) being undertaken by...
The former Senate Chief Whip and National Leader of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Mr Roland Owie, on Sunday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)....
A four-month ban targeted at VIPs known for violating government COVID-19 protocols at airports across the country is being mooted by the Nigerian Senate Committee on...
Another clash ensued between the Ministry of Labour and the National Assembly on Wednesday, worsening their already tampered relationship. This time representative of the Minister of...
The Senate has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to direct the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity to set up a Committee to...
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Delta State. Also passed were two bills to establish the...
The Senate on Tuesday passed an amendment to the Criminal Code removing gender for rape offences and increasing the statute of limitation in the period offenders...
