In an audacious move, the Senate on Wednesday, March 24, introduced a bill seeking to amend the Police Act, 2020 The new bill titled ‘The Nigeria...
The Senate on Wednesday, March 24, adopted a motion to end the hardship being faced by Nigerians abroad in obtaining and renewing their passports. It, therefore,...
The Senate on Wednesday proceeded on the Easter holiday. The upper legislative chamber will resume plenary on April 13. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the...
The Senate has approved the establishment of the National Agricultural Development Fund for the purpose of providing finance to support strategic aspects of agricultural development of...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) will soon be reformed to strengthen its debt recovery authourity after the Senate passed a bill to amend the...
A bill seeking to amend the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Act scaled the second reading at the Senate on Tuesday. The bill was sponsored...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Mr. Wakil Bukar as Commissioner in the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC). This followed the adoption of the...
The Senate on Sunday launched an inquest into dealings in the Finance Ministry over its failure to account for N2.77billion released from the service-wide vote. The...
A bill to amend the Labour Act to provide for upward review of fines on violations of labour laws on Tuesday, March 16, scaled second reading...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has directed Petroleum Products Pricing Regulators Agency (PPPRA) to provide the list of beneficiaries who collected N120 billion as payment...
The Senate, on Wednesday, March 10, resolved to carry out an amendment of the Nigerian Constitution to expunge any aspect that infringes on the rights of...
Senate Committee of Finance will begin its investigation of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) over their compliance with laws on remittance of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)...
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will face Senate committee today, Tuesday, over alleged missing $9.5 million interest. The fund was from the...
Supporters of Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, and his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, have clashed over an alleged plan to recall Okorocha as the Senator representing Imo...
For failing to account for 55 vehicles in its care, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts has sustained a query by the office of the Auditor...
The Senate on Wednesday approved N11.35 billion as the Nigeria Police Trust Fund budget for the 2020 fiscal year. The approval followed the analysis of the...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Bawa’s confirmation came after over two hours...
The new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdurrasheed Bawa on Wednesday, February 24, resolved to ensure the eradication of financial crimes while...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, February 23, criticised the confirmation and deployment of the former Service Chiefs as ambassadors-designate. This was contained in a...
The Senate, on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of the immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors. The comfirmation comes admist two petitions against the nominees and...
The bill seeking to check revenue leakages from medical tourism scaled second reading in the Senate on Thursday. The primary objective of the bill is to...
The Senate has implored President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency due to the deteriorating state of security across the country. Ripples Nigeria had...
The Senate on Tuesday, February 16, urged the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) to ensure adherence to the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) on generation and spending of...
The Bill to curb the proliferation of illegal arms in the country has passed second reading in the Senate. Ripples Nigeria gathered that this came in...
The Senate on Thursday summoned the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, over the ban of cryptocurrency transactions in the country. The upper legislative...
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara says dialogue remains the only option to end banditry in the country. Matawalle said this while fielding questions from newsmen on...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday frowned at state governors in the North-West negotiating with bandits, insisting that such negotiation is fuelling banditry in the country. The...
The Senate will discuss the crisis that had trailed the activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country on Tuesday. The National Assembly is expected to resume...
A bill seeking voting rights for married underage girls has been rejected by the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Chairman...
The Senate on Sunday told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to channels its petition on the allegedly missing N4.4 billion to the Committees on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Nigerian Senate seeking the confirmation of the new Service Chiefs he appointed on Tuesday. The President’s letter which was...
An article of impeachment against former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has been presented to the Senate for his (Trump’s) trial on...
The Senate has frowned at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources for spending, without due process, N98.4 million to supposedly print leaflets. The leaflets were said to...
The Senate has queried the Ministry of Power after it discovered a bogus deposit of N478m by the ministry in Aso Savings and Loans Plc. The...
The Hunter’s Council of Nigeria Bill scaled second reading at the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The bill is in an effort to legalise the activities of...
The Senate on Monday passed the 2021 budget of N13.5trillion. The budget was predicated on an oil benchmark of $40 per barrel. In the budget, N3.324trillion...
The Senate has passed the 2021-2023 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). The lawmakers passed the 2021-23 MTEF/FSP after considering the harmonised...
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday sustained a query by the office of Auditor General for the Federation against the Federal Ministry of Health over the handling...
The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the federal lawmakers would hold a special session on Monday, December 21, to consider and pass the...
The Nigerian Senate has passed for a second reading a bill seeking to give legal backing to the establishment of the Nigerian Peace Corps. The Senate...
The Nigerian Senate has warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Amnesty International (AI) against accusations of human rights abuses levelled against the Nigerian Army during...
The Nigeria Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Defense, Bashir Salihi Magashi and the nation’s service chiefs to appear before it over the worsening security...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has revealed when the Upper House will pass the Electoral Act Amendment Bill while also giving assurance on the repeal of...
The Senate has requested the Nigerian government to conduct an inquiry into a purported loss of revenue summing up to $9 billion every year from illegal...
The Senate has moved to give legal backing to the Nigerian French Language Village, Badagry, as a bill that seeks to legalise the institution has passed...
The Nigerian Senate has moved to empower Nigerian banks with a bill seeking to recover loans from defaulters, place them on watchlist and ultimately blacklist them...
The Nigerian Senate has warned that failure by the Federal Government to administer COVID-19 vaccines to its citizens may lead to other countries imposing travel ban...
Reno Omokri has called on the Nigerian Senate to summon up the will and sack President Muhammadu Buhari should he fail to sack the service chiefs....
Social media users in Nigeria have continued to place more value on topics of national importance, and Tuesday was no exception. Most of the discussions challenged...
The Senate Committee on Air Force said on Thursday that Nigeria may lose the $493million paid to the United States for the purchase of Super Tucano...
