Senate President Bukola Saraki and Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, among other defendants currently being prosecuted before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, may have...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that the controversies generated following the discovery of N18billion in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos is not good for the...
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...
A number of weeks ago, I had posted a very brief analysis of the on-going struggle for power within the Nigeria’s rapacious political elite on my...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki are at loggerheads again, and Buhari apologists are erecting annoyingly false Manichean binaries between...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Yakubu Mahmood, has presented a 2017-2021 Strategic Plan to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki. Mahmood,...
Ten Senate standing committees are yet to submit their 2017 budget reports on Ministries, Departments and Agencies to the Committee on Appropriation,a development that may jeopardise...
A Lagos based businessman, Mr. Raji Rasheed Oyewumi, has sued Senate President Bukola Saraki and 10 other senators over the recent rejection of the acting chairman...
Hours after Senate President Bukola Saraki denied the ownership of N310million said to have been stolen from his Maitama, Abuja home in 2015, the department of...
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has warned those allegedly working hard to tarnish his image and name through fabricated stories and allegations that enough is...
By Farooq Kperogi- What’s all these annoyingly false Manichean binaries people are erecting between an “evil” National Assembly and a “benign” Aso Rock! Both Aso bRock...
Senator Dino Melaye has said that if the former Senate Majority Leader Ali Ndume could show remorse and apologise to Senate President Bukola Saraki, he may...
By Godwin Onyeacholem… No thanks to the unholy machinations of an unscrupulous cabal in the presidency which formed a satanic partnership with a shamelessly crooked senate,...
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...
Barely two weeks after the Senate rejected the approval of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the commission’s report...
The Senate, on Tuesday, gave nod to a motion, sponsored by the immediate-past Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, wherein he called on the Red Chamber to investigate...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has refuted the assumption that the reason the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was rejected...
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Mr.Chukwuka Utazi said Friday that the comment he made on Thursday condemning last year’s raid...
A 60-day action plan on ease of doing business has been proposed by the Federal Government. If successfully implemented, the frustrations experienced by locals and foreigners...
The Wednesday London visit to President Muhammadu Buhari by the trio of Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, and Leader of Senate, Ahmed Lawan, may...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has revealed that the proposed rehabilitation work on the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is not captured in either...
Apparently in its efforts to ensure Senate President Bukola Saraki does not go unscathed in his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja,...
The National Assembly (NASS)’yesterday queried the utilisation of N2.74 trillion invested in the nation’s power sector from 1999-2015, saying the sector depreciated increasingly, despite the huge...
Investors in the nation’s power sector have called for the settlement of N50 billion owed them, while also calling for the introduction of a realistic tariff...
The stand-off between the Senate and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Babachir Lawal, resurfaced yesterday as the SGF failed to appear before the...
As President Muhammadu Buhari continues his leave in the United Kingdom, the President of the Senate Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara,...
Former Senate leader, Senator Ali Ndume, on Wednesday accused the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, of keeping the Budget of the Senate a secret from other lawmakers....
By Pius Adesanmi… These are very strange times indeed when an editor legitimizes farce rather than understand the enormous social mission of this important estate of...
Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Umar has adjourned till February 8 for the prosecution to call more witnesses, in the ongoing trial of Senate President, Bukola...
Senate President Bukola Saraki’s ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) continued on Tuesday with a witness, Nwachukwu Amazu, a banker with GTBank, testifying...
Council to Senate President Bukola Saraki, Kanu Agabi, on Wednesday told the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Umar, that his client is unhappy with...
In a shocking move Tuesday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the Senate, announced the replacement of Senator Ali Ndume as its Leader and Ahmed...
Senate majority leader, Senator Ali Ndume seems to have run into troubled waters with his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Baring any last minute change,...
Disagreement between the Senate and the House of Representatives on harmonisation of certain aspects of the Code of Conduct Amendment Bill, recently passed by the two...
There were indications on Saturday that the Federal Government is no longer interested in pursuing the case of forgery of the Senate Standing Orders, 2015, allegedly...
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday, confirmed an exclusive story recently published by Ripples Nigeria that the on-going process of amending the 1999 Constitution being undertaken...
There are strong indications that the police have submitted to the National Prosecution Coordination Committee, another report on the investigations into the alleged forgery of the...
By Joseph Edgar… Nigerian political terrain has never been cast in finite moulds. It continues to shift according to the forces of self interest and the...
The Presidency has again taken steps to woo the National Assembly and get it to approve its request to borrow $30 billion to fund the 2017...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday arrived Sokoto State where he attended the Commissioning of Kalambaina 500 Housing Estate in the Sokoto. He was also at the...
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, has again lost his bid to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, as the...
Barring any last-minute change of plans, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to unveil a former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi as its substantive National...
Coming on the heels of recent arrest of seven judges in the country, after a raid on their residences by the DSS, President Muhammadu Buhari has...
The victory celebration by Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, over the withdrawal of the forgery case against them, may be short lived,...
The Federal Government on Thursday, filed a motion to drop the criminal conspiracy and forgery charges of Senate Standing Order against the Senate President Bukola Saraki...
Reprieve has come the way of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, as the Federal Government, Thursday, filed a motion to withdraw...
President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted to the Senate for screening and confirmation six names of national commissioners of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He also sent...
The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) is to reopen investigations into the purported forgery of the Senate Standing Rules 2015. The force as learnt, has already written...
Senators yesterday opposed their President, Bukola Saraki, and kicked against the call for the sale of some national assets. This came at the Senate yesterday set...
State governors have approved the sale of national assets as proposed by the economic management team to steer the nation out of economic recession. The idea...
