The Rape Bill recently passed by the National Assembly has been kicked against by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU). Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, the National...
A Bill seeking to make the Inspector-General of Police serve a single tenure of four years has passed the third reading at the Senate. The bill...
Social media/internet freedom is a basic human right. It is unalienable. In the pool of freedoms, it is as basic as the right to exist. Take...
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill that seeks to protect students in tertiary institutions in the country after it passed the third reading. The bill...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele, has been summoned by...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Nigerian Senate to approve the confirmation of 42 ambassadorial nominees. Among the nominees, only one of them, from the Federal...
The Senate on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to subsidise electricity in a bid to reduce the burden of the proposed tariff hike on Nigerians. The...
The Senate postponed its plenary on Tuesday and observed a minute silence in honour of the Senator Bayo Osinowo, who represented Lagos East in the National...
The Nigerian Customs Service said on Thursday it generated N573 billion between January and May this year. The customs has a 2020 revenue target of N957...
The Senate on Tuesday blamed the Nigerian government for the insolvency currently witnessed in the nation’s power sector, noting that Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) owed...
The Senate said on Thursday the proposed June 21 re-opening of the nation’s airports for flight operations was unrealistic, following concerns raised by workers in the...
The Senate has revealed that the ninth National Assembly helped generate an additional revenue of N320 billion into the Federation Account in the last one year....
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...
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the nomination of Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem for appointment as the Appeal Court president. The Senate gave the confirmation on Thursday after...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday approved and passed the revised 2020 budget of N10.8 trillion. The House of Representatives had also a day earlier approved and...
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 nomination of Lamido Yuguda as the Director-General (DG) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been approved by the Senate. While the Senate confirmed...
The Senate on Tuesday commenced the probe of moribund paper mills in the country with a view to reviving them. The resolution followed the adoption of...
The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Orji Uzi Kalu, on Tuesday returned to the plenary of the Senate. Kalu had been in prison since late...
The Senate said on Thursday it would launch a probe into the N1.8 trillion Federal Government interventions in the power sector since the privatization of the...
The Senate on Wednesday said those accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of lopsided appointments into Federal Government establishments and agencies are merely engaged in ‘beer parlour’, talks....
The Senate on Tuesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $5.513 billion external loan request to finance the revised 2020 budget. The president’s request was approved after the...
The Nigerian Senate has called on the relevant authorities to see that rapists in the country face stiffer punishments. The Senate made the call during its...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of 37 nominees forwarded to it by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation. The nominees were confirmed after the upper...
The Nigerian Senate Committee on Finance has asked the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to explain why the cost of oil production is ‘very high’ in Nigeria....
A bill seeking the amendment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010 scaled second reading in the Senate on Tuesday. The bill...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called for the immediate review of the privatization exercise of the power sector by previous administrations. Lawan gave the...
The Senate on Tuesday told the Federal Government to suspend the planned electricity tariff hike over hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The...
The Nigerian Senate has reacted to calls by state governors for Nigeria’s federal lawmakers to dump the controversial Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 currently before both chambers...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government to implement a report of its ad-hoc committee to address killings by bandits in...
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said on Tuesday the Senate’s investigation into the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) finances was to complement the Federal Government’s ongoing...
The Nigerian House of Representatives has approved Present Muhammadu Buhari’s request to borrow N850 billion from domestic capital market. The Reps members gave their approval for...
The names of 42 ambassadorial nominees have been sent to the Senate for screening and confirmation by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President of the Senate, Ahmad...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Nigerian Senate to confirm Professor Jumai Audi for appointment as the Chairman of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission. President Buhari...
A rights group in Delta State, the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative (IPDI), on Friday said it does not have confidence in the ability of the Nigerian...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday approved its committee recommendation that the nation’s police force should be decentralised. The lawmakers also approved community policing as a way...
A National Health Emergency Bill on Tuesday passed first reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill, which is a quarantine law, is similar to the Infectious...
The Senate has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the planned deployment of the Fifth Generation Network across the...
The Senate on Tuesday gave a speedy approval to a request by President Muhammadu Buhari to borrow N850billion to finance the 2020 budget. President Buhari had...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the Nigerian Senate to approve N850 billion loan for the Federal Government. He said the loan would be used by...
The National Assembly has resumed plenary on Tuesday (today) after its break following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The lawmakers, meanwhile, adhered to the...
The Senate will resume plenary on Tuesday, the clerk of the upper legislative chamber said on Monday. Nelson Ayewoh, who disclosed this in a statement in...
One Prince Musa, who impersonated Senator Bulus Amos, representing Gombe South at the Nigerian Senate, has been convicted by a Gombe State High Court. Musa posed...
Following the rising cases of coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria, the House of Representatives has decided to adjourn plenary indefinitely. This was disclosed by the House Speaker,...
The Senate on Friday suspended public hearing following the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. The upper legislative also announced a partial closure of its public...
The Presidency on Thursday described as cheap politics calls by senators for President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on the outbreak of Coronavirus in the country....
An Appeal Court in Abuja has sacked the ruling of an FCT High Court which sacked Ifeanyi Ubah as a senator. The FCT High Court presided...
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...
The Nigerian Senate has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently let Nigerians know his government’s efforts to address Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in the country. The...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider placing a travel ban on countries with high risk of coronavirus. The request was...
