Barely two days after the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, criticised the handling of the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war, the Senate, has given a two-week ultimatum...
The Senate has expressed concern over the failure of government agencies to submit their 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly in line with extant law....
The Senate has warned Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to stop making false claims on the on-going process of passing into law...
The Senate has commenced investigations of some banks over alleged collusion with International Oil Companies (IOCs) to defraud the country. Over $62,909,716,417 billion is said to...
The Senate, like the House of Representatives has passed the 2017 budget put at N7.44 trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari had on December 14, 2016 formally presented...
The Senate, on Wednesday, said Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government, stink of corruption. It claimed that over 70 per cent of corruption...
Six months after President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2017 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly, the Senate, on Tuesday, received a harmonized final...
The Senate, has again, deferred the submission and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget). Although the submission of the report was included in the day’s...
The EFCC has said that no amount of scare-mongering will dissuade it from “vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption”. The commission was responding...
Worried by some unconfirmed reports that some certain forces within President Muhammadu Buhari-led government were plotting to save the suspended Secretary to the Government of the...
The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed Professor Steven Ikani Ocheni and Suleiman Zarma Hassan as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The letter of the duo’s...
The Senate, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Government to stop receiving prisoners under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (TSP) from the United Kingdom with a view...
The political travails of the immediate-past Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, maybe far from over, as the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, announced his...
The Nigerian Senate appears to have run into a constitutional crisis over the recent requests by the Presidency for the confirmation of Board members of the...
The Senate has perfected plans to withhold the confirmation of nominees by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the lawmakers’ strategies for a showdown with the...
The Presidency, through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has waded into the rift involving the Inspector...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, re-submitted the name of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee from Imo State, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor who was earlier rejected...
The Senate, on Wednesday, alleged that the Nigeria Police has stolen all relevant documents needed to process and pass the 2017 Budget. Subsequently, the Upper Legislative...
Almost two decades after the Federal Government made its first attempt to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Senate will on the 16 and 17...
The Asokoro, Abuja home of a former governor of Gombe State and serving senator, Danjuma Goje, was on Thursday evening raided by police. It was learnt...
The ongoing peace talks between the Senate and the Executive may still be deadlocked, despite the suspension of Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal....
President Muhammadu Buhari will not communicate to the Senate his latest position on the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu,...
Contrary to its promise that it will pass the 2017 budget on or before the end of March, the Senate, last Tuesday again, failed to pass...
The Senate has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for responding to the motion moved during a plenary session by Senator Kabiru Marafa, chairman, Committee...
The Senate, on Wednesday, declared that over N30 trillion has been round tripped by virtually all the commercial banks in the country from 2006 till date...
As the dust raised in the face-off between the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col Hameed Ali (rtd) and the Senate struggles to settle,...
The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to liaise with the National Judicial Council, (NJC) Office of the Attorney...
The Senate has rejected an interim report, submitted by an adhoc committee on farmers-herders clash inSouthern Kaduna and in other parts of the country. The committee...
The Senate, on Thursday, raised the alarm over growing tensions in the Niger Delta region, following the alleged refusal of the Federal Government, to offset five...
Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Prof Itse Sagay, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is condoning evil and that the party has...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the alleged comment the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman, Itse Sagay, made against the Senate and described...
On Tuesday, the Senate urged the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to make meningitis vaccinations free in public healthcare...
Thousands of people from Borno South Senatorial District, on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly to protest against the suspension of Senator Ali Ndume by the Senate....
Barring any last minute changes, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party caucuses in the Senate will be meeting with the leaders of their...
President Muhammadu Buhari may not heed the call by the Senate for the sack of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr....
Nigeria’s federal system of government has bestowed on it a bicameral legislature at the federal level. To this end, National Assembly consists of a Senate with...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Friday led some prominent leaders of the state to visit the Senate President Bukola Saraki. The visit may not...
The Senate on Thursday passed amendments to the Electoral Act 2010, approving the use of electronic voting in future elections. It also approved that election results...
Barely twenty four hours after Senators hurriedly suspended the immediate-past Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, lawmakers have deserted the chamber. Unlike Wednesday where the number of lawmakers...
Former Senate leader Ali Ndume has fallen into troubled waters with his colleagues, and has been suspended for six months. The suspension takes immediate effect and will...
The Senate, on Wednesday, summoned the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, over his alleged disparaging comments against the Red Chamber. Sagay is...
President Muhammadu Buhari, has forwarded two ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. The two names are Steven Ikani Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan...
The Senate on Tuesday refused to go ahead with the process of confirmation of the 27 persons sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari as INEC...
The Senate is still trying to extricate itself from the Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) said to have been purchased for the upper chamber, but...
Controversial Senator Dino Melaye, appeared in Senate, on Tuesday fully kitted in his academic gown. Melaye who shocked lawmakers and appeared while others were already seated,...
The presidency and the Senate, may be heading for another fresh showdown, over the refusal of the latter to approve a $200 million World Bank loan...
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Monday, raised the alarm that the Senate is being blackmailed by unnamed persons, whom he said are aggrieved....
Based on the move by the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff to investigation how over N4 trillion was lost by the Nigeria Customs Service...
THE Senate has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it today and explain his side of the...
The Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff, has revealed its plans to commence investigations into how over N4 trillion was lost due to revenue leakage...
