The Senate, on Thursday, declined to confirm the nomination of Professor Mustapha Zubairu as a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC). Similarly, the confirmation of three other REC...
Amidst serious concerns over undue interference in the work of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), the Egmont Group, which is a body of 154 financial...
The Senate, on Wednesday, announced that it will soon commence a probe of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to ascertain how grants and other...
About two weeks after it boasted to high heavens that it will henceforth not consider requests for confirmation of nominees from the presidency, the Senate, on...
More than two weeks after a scandalous video emerged, which showed Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim dressing up in the presence of two women, allegedly after sex,...
Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday swore in Ademola Adeleke, who received his certificate of return at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would ensure that victims of gunshot wounds receive necessary treatment from medical workers and assistance from security agencies....
The Senate, on Tuesday, came hard on the Government of Kogi State, over a three-page advertorial it placed in some national dailies, wherein it claimed that...
Overwhelmed by negative reactions to some observations on the floor of the Senate, the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Thursday night held a...
Chairmen of the standing committees in Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber, the Senate, have initiated moves to ensure that their currrent positions are secure. On the other...
The Senate has mandated its Committee on Marine Transport to investigate a N3billion fraud allegation against the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). The allegations were raised on...
The Senate on Wednesday swore in Isah Lau as the lawmaker representing Taraba North Senatorial District. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted shortly before the day’s plenary...
Few days after a scandalous video emerged, which showed Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim dressing up in the presence of two women in a room, possibly after...
The Senate on Wednesday again warned the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, to desist from attacking the National Assembly. It said the...
The Senate, on Tuesday, faulted the ongoing recall activities lined up by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), against Senator Dino Melaye, alluding that the commission...
The Senate, on Tuesday, renewed its face-off with the executive and threatened to sanction the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, if he fails to implement the...
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that the Senate displayed very “stark and worrisome gaps in knowledge” in the way and...
The Senate has asked the Minister of Works, Housing and Power, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), to desist from spreading half-truths and deceiving Nigerians about the 2017...
The Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district at the Senate, Dino Melaye, seems to be in real problem as 188,588 electorate, (52.1 per cent) have signed...
The Senate has expanded the responsibilities of one its Committees to include taking petitions from members of the public on allegations of corrupt practices in any...
The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), on Thursday, presented three draft bills to the Senate, aimed at enhancing the operations of the capital market and reposition...
The Senate has warned the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo not to mistake its consultations with the executive on important national issues to mean that it...
The Senate has mandated President Muhammadu Buhari to submit the report of the 2014 National Conference to the Red Chamber for deliberations. The decision was reached,...
The Senate has initiated moves to investigate the circumstances which led to the death of one Miss Joy Odama who died from acute overdose of cocaine,...
The Immediate-past Leader of the Senate and suspended member representing Borno South Senatorial District, Senator Ali Ndume, has confirmed an exclusive story published by Ripples Nigeria....
The Senate, on Thursday, dumped its controversial National Roads Funds Bill, which many Nigerians said would lead to an increase of fuel pump price from N145...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has decried the failure of dairy companies in the country to produce milk locally for their operations, warning that the situation where...
The Senate has passed the Whistle Blower Protection Bill. The bill was sponsored by late Senator Isiaka Adeleke last year. It was passed, following the adoption...
The much-anticipated South East Development Commission (SEDC) bill has passed second reading in the Senate. The debate on the bill was read by one of its...
Despite a damning report submitted by the Department of State Services (DSS), against an ambassadorial nominee, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor, the Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed him. Nsofor...
The Senate is one of the chambers in Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The National Assembly is the nation’s highest law-making body, whose power to...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its joint committees on Communications and Trade & Investment to investigate increasing rate of dropped calls and other unwholesome practices by...
The Senate on Saturday stated that reports suggesting that it plans to advice for an increase in fuel prices by N5 were untrue. The Senate president’s...
Condemnations and anger have trailed Senate’s proposal to introduce N5 tax per litre of petrol, as well as on diesel, sold in Nigeria. Nigerians see the...
A bill, currently before the Senate, has recommended a levy of N5 chargeable per litre on any volume of petrol and diesel products imported into Nigeria...
The face-off between the Senate and the executive, may soon resurface, following the refusal of the upper legislative chamber to confirm twelve names sent to it...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has told Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in some parts of the country that government will continue work to ensure their security,...
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed one of the anti-corruption bills, called “Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between Nigeria and other Foreign States”. The bill, when signed...
The Senate, on Tuesday, ordered the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to halt further action or planned concession of...
Immediate-past Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, who was recently suspended by the Upper Legislative Chamber, has vowed not to apologize to his colleagues, despite repeated moves...
Nearly a decade after late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua led government conceived the idea, the Senate, on Thursday, passed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). According to...
Hard facts, on Wednesday, emerged about Nigeria’s epileptic power sector on the floor of the Senate. During a debate on the poor power situation in Nigeria,...
The Upper Legislative Chamber, on Tuesday, alerted the National Security Adviser (NSA), security agencies and financial institutions about the current and threatening dimensions of cyber attacks....
Worried by increasing incidences of rape in Nigeria and its attendant traumatic impact on the victims, the Senate, on Tuesday, urged the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim...
The Senate says that a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), is simply seeking relevance for his alleged statement that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo should not...
On Wednesday, 15th March, 2017, the embattled Controller-General (CG) of Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), was expected to face 108 Senators to defend...
The letter transmitted to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari on the eve of his departure to the UK for medical treatment was kind of unusual....
The Senate, on Thursday, endorsed the move by its committee on Federal Character, to carry out thorough investigation, on the alleged lopsided recruitment, recently carried out...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee for the position of Director-General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission, Lanre Gbajabiamila, was on Thursday, frustrated from assuming office until his nomination is...
The Senate President Bukola Saraki on Wednesday refuted reports in some quarters that the Senate is mocking President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration’s anti-corruption fight. Saraki had on...
