Former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, has revealed that he offered to resign three times as helsman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Red...
Justice Babatunde Quadri, of the federal High court in Abuja has voided the suspension of former Majority Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, by the...
Indications emerged on Thursday that the Senate may summon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, following the death of 26 Nigerian girls in the...
The Senate, on Thursday, gave nod to Ogun State to secure a Development Policy Operation (DPO) loan of $350 million from the World Bank. The loan...
Police officers attached to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, have blocked journalists covering the Senate from gaining access to the venue of the...
The upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly has said it will no longer engage in any future face-off with the executive arm of government. It...
Some senators who served as former governors between 1999 and 2015, on Tuesday, frustrated plans by the Red Chamber to investigate the administrations of Presidents Olusegun...
Barely one day after Senate ad hoc committee investigating various allegations leveled against the Police and the Police Service Commission (PSC), threatened to issue a warrant...
Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, may be arrested next week, if he fails to appear before the adhoc committee investigating various allegations levelled against...
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to make adequate financial provision in the 2018 Budget for the take-off of the North East Development Commission...
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday failed to adopt a clandestine move to endorse an automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s...
The Senate, on Tuesday, jubilated over the sack of the David Babachir Lawal, as Secretary to Government of the Federation, by President Muhammadu Buhari, following the...
The Senate has mandated President Muhammadu Buhari to act swiftly and bring those behind the reinstatement of the former chairman of Presidential Task Team on Pension...
Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has shocked senators with his assertion that he did not know the cost of the second Abuja airport runway....
Baring any last minute change of plans, the Senate will next Tuesday, commence an investigation into how Paris Club refunds and other bail out funds given...
Immediate-past President of the Senate, David Mark, on Wednesday, spoke on the floor for the first time in two years and four months. This is the...
Some senators, on Wednesday, descended heavily on President Muhammadu Buhari and claimed that the country was on the brink of collapse. They also claimed that Nigerians...
The Senate has deferred the probe of the alleged insubordination, abuse of office and alleged fraud in the award of over $25 billion worth of contracts...
More than one week after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, constituted a committee to probe the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, on claims that...
The Senate on Wednesday considered and passed for second reading a Bill for an Act requiring regular publication of existing vacant positions in Federal Government offices...
The Senate, on Thursday, descended on the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, over claims that the National Assembly was yet to approve President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
The Senate has revealed that it will soon commence investigations into the alleged misappropriation of over N1.2 billion by the leadership of the National Broadcasting Commission...
The Senate says plans have been concluded to hand companies found culpable in its investigation into alleged N30 trillion revenue scam in the import and export...
The Senate has set up a committee to conduct a comprehensive investigation on the alleged insubordination, due process abuse and maleficence leveled against the Group Managing...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has stated that the Senate was wrong to accuse the Federal Government of abysmal funding releases for capital projects in...
Lawmakers on the Senate committees on Appropriation and Finance, on Tuesday, slugged it out with the Ministers of Budget and National Planning, and Finance, Mr Udoma...
The Senate, on Tuesday, decried the state of Nigeria’s foreign missions. It said the condition of foreign missions was embarrassing. It revealed that some foreign missions...
The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Education to scrap post Unified Matriculation Examination (UME) in its entirety. It has also urged the Joint Admission...
Fresh facts have emerged that the suspended former Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, who was expected to resume next week, after serving out his...
Following a resolution by Nigeria’s Senate summoning the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and her colleague, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, over...
Ministers will soon face the Senate, to give their accounts of stewardship on the implementation of the 2017 budget. This revelation was made on Tuesday by...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, announced the movement of chairmen and deputies of the various standing committees in the upper chamber. Saraki, who...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has declared as unconstitutional the actions by the South East governors and the Nigerian Defence headquarters against the Indigenous People...
The Senate has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rein in the chairman of the Presidential Action Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, who it accused...
Six months after the Senate mandated its joint committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Petroleum Resources (Upstream) and Gas to probe an alleged N10 trillion-subsidy fraud by...
Works on the proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution may be delayed further as the 36 state Houses of Assembly have yet to receive the amendments...
President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said that the Senate will accelerate the passage of the Existing Vacancies in the Federal Civil Service (Prohibition)...
The Upper Legislative Chamber, on Monday, descended heavily on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) saying the party which lost power at the centre in 2015, destroyed...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed and transmitted a letter to the National Assembly informing the legislators of his return to duties. The letter stated in...
Against the directive of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Senate has advised nominees into the headship of three Federal Government institutions not to resume work until...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has approve the sack of over 100 personal aides. Special Adviser to Saraki on Media and Publicity, Mr Yusuf Olaniyonu,...
The Senate has cautioned sponsors and participants in the protests by a coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) under the aegis of #OurMumuDonDo, to stop heating...
Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has called on Nigerians to judge the Upper Chamber of the 8th National Assembly...
A former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar, has called on Nigerians to support the efforts of public officers committed to their duties and...
By Ehisuan Odis Last Wednesday, the Senate passed an amendment bill tagged, ‘The Legislature’. It altered sections 4, 51, 67, 68, 93 and 109 of the...
On Thursday, it was the turn of the House of Representatives to undertake the clause-by-clause debate of proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution. The House fared...
Although calls from various quarters across the country have intensified in recent times in support of restructuring, the Senate, on Wednesday, in what will be interpreted...
The senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the widely popular age criteria reduction for political offices. The amendment votes read thus: 86 in support, 10 against, 1...
The Senate at about 12.35pm today, voted against devolution of powers to States. Forty eight voted against it, while 46 voted in favour. It however voted in...
Barely 24 hours after it indicted top government officials, over the suspension of Nigeria by Egmont Group, the Senate has introduced a bill for an Act...
