President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the legislature is the most misunderstood arm of government. Lawan stated this in his remarks sequel to...
Guilty as charged! Poor Nigerians got a rare mention at the National Assembly recently. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, on June 21, shared...
Ndume’s tales Eyebrows were raised, last Tuesday, when media reports went viral claiming that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, had...
The Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, lamented on Thursday that the Boko Haram has metamorphosed from a group of religious zealots to an industry operated by people...
The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of 42 Ambassadors-designate. This was just as the Upper Chamber confirmed the nomination of James Jiya John Kolo as...
A bill that seeks to protect rape victims in the country from stigmatization, on Wednesday passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill entitled ‘Rape...
The Senate will on Thursday consider the revised 2020 Appropriation Bill. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this on Wednesday after the Committee on Appropriation laid...
The Ecumenical Youths Association (ECA), has condemned the delay in the confirmation of Honourable Justice Monica Bolna’an Dongban-Mensem as the President of the Court of Appeal....
The National Assembly has fixed Thursday May 28 as the new date for their resumption of plenary as against the former date of June 2nd, to...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called on the Federal Government to be fair and make the distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic palliatives...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called on the Federal Government to make sure there was equity and fairness in the distribution of...
The Nigerian Senate has banned all forms of public hearing and excursion of students to the Senate. It also announced the closure of its gallery to...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday said the global falling price of crude oil should be a challenge for Nigeria to devise other means...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that out-of-school children was a big challenge facing Nigeria as a nation. According to the Senate President, the...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, urging him to use his leadership position to “ensure...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Friday his foray into partisan politics came with a vow never to deceive those who elected him. Lawan said his...
The Senate on Thursday considered a bill which proposes stiffer sanctions for any person or corporate entity involved in gas flaring in Nigeria from January 1,...
The Nigerian Senate has expressed dismay that there had not been proper screening of passengers for Coronavirus at airports across the country. The President of the...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has informed that he has received reports of security threat to the assembly complex urging security agencies to...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan says the National Assembly will continue to work with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to find a...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has declared that those employed to be in charge of the nation’s security must be given targets and...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has debunked claims held in some quarters that the ninth National Assembly is a rubber stamp legislature to...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has condemned the approval of N37 billion for the renovation of the National Assembly Complex by President Muhammadu Buhari in...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has been appointed as the leader of a 10-member National Reconciliation Committee to resolve the unending crisis in the ruling All Progressives...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Nigerian Senate to screen and confirm Mohammad Nami as the new chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Buhari’s...
The Senate, through its president Ahmad Lawan, has promised to commence work on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) the moment senators resume work in January 2020....
The Senate has appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, to as a matter of urgency reduce the number of checkpoints on Federal Highways...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday explained why the upper legislative chamber has yet to set up a committee on the review of the...
The Nigeria Senate Committee on Appropriation is alleged to have raised the 2020 budget. The committee purportedly increased the capital part of the 2020 Appropriation Bill...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday returned to the Senate with the Federal Government’s 2016-2018 external borrowing plan. In a letter addressed to Senate President, Ahmad Lawan,...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, said on Thursday, there was no request before the 9th Senate for the confirmation of the acting Chairman of...
The chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, on Wednesday, said that about 50 million Nigerians suffer some form of mental illness. He stated this...
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 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 president of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan has decried over bloating of cost of doing projects in Nigeria. According to him, projects that could be...
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday held a crucial security meeting with top officials who are directly charged with the security of the Federal Capital Territory,...
Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said it was high time Nigeria insisted on the local contents in carrying out engineering projects in the country. He...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Friday spoke on the need for a law that will ensure timeliness for budget passage in Nigeria. He...
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...
The Nigerian Senate has said that it would on Wednesday (tomorrow) inaugurate its standing committees. This was announced by Senate President Ahmad Lawan after a closed-door...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Friday, talked about areas of national interest, the upper Chamber would address before it went on Christmas break....
The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has commenced investigations into the bank accounts of the leaders of the National Assembly and the Chief Justice of Nigeria...
The making of foot soldiers The Senate, on July 30, 2019, concluded the screening and confirmation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s 43 ministerial nominees. One noticeable outcome...
The committees, their chairpersons and vice-chairpersons are as follows: 1. Agriculture – Abdullahi Adamu, Bima Enagi. 2. Airforce – Bala Ibn Na’Allah, Michael Nnachi. 3. Anti-corruption...
Ahmad Lawan has been dutiful in his obligation of inking ‘’rubber stamp’’ on the senate. Though he had said the senate, which he leads, would not...
Following the receipt of the names of 43 ministerial nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly, the red chamber on Wednesday commenced the...
Nigerian Senate will on Wednesday, July 24, begin screening and confirmation of the 43 ministerial nominees sent to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed...
The President of the Nigerian Senate Ahmad Lawan has vowed that the recently inaugurated Ninth Assembly will end the jinx and quicken the passage of the...
As the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) threatens industrial action over the delay in implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has called for...
A former member and national publicity secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dayo Adeyeye, is now the new spokesman of the Senate. This...
