The Senate has commenced moves to end what it described as the “illegal” activities of oil companies engaged in exploration resulting in oil spills and environmental...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday insisted that only the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as confirmed by it can the defend the 2019...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to kickstart the process that will see to the revival of the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas...
The Senate has charged security agencies to ensure that all those behind the violence during Kogi and Bayelsa states November 16, elections were apprehended and prosecuted....
The Nigerian Senate will not pass the 2020 budget on November 28 as the lawmakers earlier planned. The development is due to the inability of the...
A Bill seeking for the establishment of North West Development Commission has been reintroduced in the 9th Senate. The bill, sponsored by Jibrin Barau (APC, Kano...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Power, Gabriel Suswam, said on Friday the upper legislative chamber is working with the Federal Government to solve the country’s...
The Nigerian Senate has resolved to work with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to recover the N5 trillion owed the corporation by high profile...
Nigerian Senate has passed the Finance Bill which would enable the amendment of seven Acts of the National Assembly relating to taxes payable in the country....
A bill intended to regulate social media use in the country, has passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill entitled, ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood...
The Senate has mandated its Committee on Power to investigate the activities of power generating and distribution companies with a view to unraveling the cause of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent six aviation sector bills to the Senate for consideration and passage into law. He sent the bills in a letter...
The Senate has quelled insinuations held in some quarters that the bill seeking the prohibition of hate speech is connected with the alleged third term agenda...
The Senate on Monday distanced itself from the Hate Speech Bill now before the lawmakers, saying it was not the idea emanated from a member of...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday adjourned its plenary after discovering that many seats were empty in the chamber. A senator representing Benue South in the Red...
Senator Abiodun Olujimi has returned to the Nigerian Senate to represent Ekiti South senatorial district. This followed her swearing-in by Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who administered...
The senate marshalled by Ahmad Lawan has been convincing in confirming the stereotypes and assumptions about the institution. In July, I wrote about Lawan’s obsequiousness and...
The Senate Wednesday summoned the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd), over the ban on fuel supply to communities close to the...
The Senate on Wednesday approved N10 billion loan refunds to the Kogi State government. The Senate approval came just three days before the governorship election in...
Where the media are free, the market place of ideas sorts the irresponsible from the responsible and rewards the later——-Anonymous For media practitioners, oddities -particularly, human...
A bill for the establishment of a commission for the control of hate speech passed the first reading during plenary at Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The...
Lawmaker representing Imo East Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, has again called for the reduction in the number of federal legislators in the country. He insisted that...
A bill seeking to establish a commission for the prohibition of hate speech passed first reading on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday. The bill...
The budget defence of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), may have run into a hitch, as the Senate has queried the documents it supplied during the...
Worried by the growing menace of kidnappers and criminal bandits in various parts of the country, the Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to purchase...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna on Wednesday dismissed the appeal filed by the Senate spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye and declared Senator Abiodun Olujimi as duly...
The Senate on Tuesday reintroduced the controversial bill designed to regulate social media activities in the country, despite the outcries that followed its first introduction during...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Justice John Tsoho as the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. The upper legislative chamber also confirmed...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday confirmed 15 people for the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) out of the 16 nominees sent to...
The Court of Appeal, Ibadan, on Friday dismissed the petition filed by a former Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, challenging the verdict of the National...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday questioned why the Federal Ministry of Power allocated N600 million to Distribution Companies (Discos). The Senate argued, that Discos were privatised...
The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernment Affairs on Monday quizzed representatives of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) over alleged secret recruitments into some federal...
The Senate on Tuesday gave the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) two weeks for the defence of their annual budget proposals. The upper legislative chamber stated...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday requested for the resolution of the National Assembly on the issuance of N10.069 billion for promissory note programme of Kogi State...
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, on Friday revealed that the Nigerian Airforce was bridging the gaps in its operations as a way...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursdays continued the debate on the general principles of the 2020 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar. has applauded the Senate for re-introducing the anti-sexual harassment bill....
Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi has shared a similar view recently expressed by Senator Rochas Okorocha, that Nigeria needs a unicameral federal legislature. But unlike Okorocha,...
The Senate on Wednesday revisited the sexual harassment bill which was sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and passed by the 8th Senate....
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday started debate on the general principles of the 2020 Appropriation Bill submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday challenged Nigerian senators to make road rehabilitation and construction their constituency projects. The minister threw the...
The Senate has passed the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) submitted earlier to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Committee...
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....
A bill seeking to impose a nine percent tax on Nigerians for using communication and cable television services in the country on Wednesday passed the first...
The Nigerian Senate has asked three of its committees to immediately probe seven International Oil Companies (IOCs) for alleged refusal to remit to the government about...
The Nigerian Senate has referred the 2020-2022 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) documents to its Finance Committee. The committee, which has one...
It is a common knowledge that the Ijaw Youths Council recently issued a release which among other remarks stated that; if the government should reintroduce what...
A lawmaker has vehemently warned against the adoption of the Malam Nasir el-Rufai’s APC Committee report on true federalism, describing part of the report as injurious...
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 has invited the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to come and explain the gas contract to...
