The House of Representatives has warned the Federal Government against acts capable of crippling the National Assembly, adding that it must desist from its planned prosecution...
Worried by the planned arraignment of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, the Senate, on Tuesday, summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation...
A former Director of Finance of the moribund Air Nigeria, Mr. John Nnorom, has told the Senate how businessman Jimoh Ibrahim crippled the airline. Nnorom was...
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ikweremadu will on Tuesday appear before an Abuja High Court, Jabi on charges of forgery. Both...
The Senate has reacted strongly to the filing of criminal charges against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu over the alleged forgery...
The Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, has said the country at the moment does not know the quantity of crude oil it produces. The Executive...
The contentious and long awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, has suffered another set back, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has ordered an indefinite suspension of...
Even while away in faraway London on a medical vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded a list of 47 nominees for ambassadorial appointment to the Senate....
Disturbed by revelations of huge unremitted funds in 2013 report of the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, NEITI, the Senate,Thursday, summoned NEITI Executive Secretary, Mr. Waziri Adio, to...
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday said that the Senate would debate the 2013 Audit Report of the Nigeria Extractive Industry...
The upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly on Wednesday initiated moves to unbundle the Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC). Specifically, the senate hopes to set up...
The new price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, received the endorsement of the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, with the Senators demanding the...
A day after divisive votes were cast to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer has vowed to rescue the country’s plunging economy. The...
Forces in the presidency are engaged in a battle of wits with Senate President, Bukola Saraki over the appointment of an Acting Clerk to the National...
The Senate on Thursday summoned the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung, before it on Thursday April 19, by 2pm, to brief it...
After consultations and a debate among parliamentarians, the Senator tasked with reviewing President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment process has recommended that she be put on trial for...
The Senate said on Wednesday, that it would begin the process of enacting a law that would prescribe capital punishment for kidnappers. It also called on...
The debate on the controversial new Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the Senate failed on Tuesday, as members of the upper chamber refused to take the...
In what clearly is a twist, George Uboh, the Abuja based security expert that petitioned the Senate over alleged diversion of over N1 trillion by the...
Fresh findings have revealed how the emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President of the 8th Senate caused the on-going budget impasse. According...
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Accountant General of the Federation are in a dilemma over how to deal with the Senate request to cancel...
Forces within the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are neck deep in serious plans for a post-Saraki Senate Presidency, Ripples can authoritatively...
Peter Claver Oparah…For Bukola Saraki, the embattled Senate President, it never rains but pours. He has enjoyed a permanently stormy tenure since he went at his...
Ripples Nigeria has learnt that what began as an innocuous award to Deputy Senate President,Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday has created serious unease in the camp of...
In what may be a tactical move, the Senate on Wednesday, suspended further action on the controversial amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal...
The Nigerian Senate Tuesday, denied buying 108 new luxury Sport Utility Vehicles, SUV, adding that only 36 were bought. According to the upper chamber of the...
The trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal has pitched the Tribunal’s chairman, Danladi Umar with lawmakers who seem bent...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised objections to the new Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill 2016, Ripples has learnt. According to informed...
Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (cct), Danladi Umar, said on Monday that the Senate can still hold its sittings while its president, Bukola Saraki...
Legislators in Brazil have casted their vote in favour of impeaching incumbent President Dilma Rousseff over corruption charges. Tens of thousand gathered in the capital of...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Sunday described the ongoing amendment of the act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has mandated the Senate Committee on Power to liaise with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Federal Ministry of Finance...
The Senate seems to have put on a fast track, a bill to amend the Act establishing the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and its tribunal....
Senators loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki are using the 2016 Budget row to negotiate a soft-landing for the former Kwara State Governor, who is facing...
Nigerian Senate, Wednesday, mandated its Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream and Downstream), Finance and Appropriation to immediately investigate joint venture cash calls by the Nigeria...
Contrary to the stand of the Senate that it would not re-examine the controversial 2016 budget, the House of Representatives says it will take another look...
The rancour created by the executive and legislative arms of government over the 2016 budget deepened Tuesday as both arms of government maintained their stands, unwilling...
The Senate on Monday, sent a message to the Presidency to come clean with Nigerians on the 2016 Budget and stop engaging in surreptitious campaigns of...
The trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is beginning to take a toll on the unity of senators,...
The order of the National Assembly for the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, to seal the Kogi State House of Assembly, Lokoja, was today...
After a barage of criticism from several quarters, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, Tuesday, apologised to Nigerians for his statement that he...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has barred the Senate and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, from arresting the immediate past Chairman of...
The Senate has passed the 2016 budget on Wednesday which was sent to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, on December 22,...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki says that the National Assembly has not passed the 2016 budget because it wants to do a thorough job of it to make...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has indicated that a new version of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, is set to be re-presented in the National Assembly, next...
Senators Stella Oduah and Ben Murray-Bruce have both dissociated themselves from the actions of their colleagues over the gender equality bill, that was rejected on the...
The Senate has taken up a petition forwarded to it by concerned Nigerians over what is alleged to be discriminatory promotions in the Nigerian Police Force....
The Senate has hinted of plans to run integrity test on the Auditor General of the Federation’s audit report, Ripples has learnt. This development was confirmed...
The lower legislative chamber has assured that the 2016 budget will be passed by 17th March. Giving this assurance on Sunday was the Chairman, House Committee...
The plan by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachicwu, to restructure the NNPC, Thursdayelicited different reactions from the two chambers of the...
