The federal government and the Senate have again presented different narratives as to what is the cause of delay in the passage of the 2018 Appropriation...
Nigeria’s expulsion from the Egmont Group may have been averted following the intervention Thursday evening by the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the...
The National Assembly has passed a Federal Audit Services Bill which seeks to ensure the independence for the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation. The...
Ten days to the meeting of members of Egmont Group, where Nigeria will be expelled, both chambers of the National Assembly are yet to transmit a...
The Senate, on Wednesday, said it will pass the 2018 budget without submissions from many Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The threat followed an observation by...
The Senate, on Tuesday, unveiled plans to investigate allegations of double registration leveled against the governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Bello. The decision to probe...
Lobbying is in top gear in the Senate, preparatory to overriding President Muhammadu Buhari, if he decides to veto the recent amendment to the Electoral Act,...
Senator Shehu Sani from Kaduna state has alleged that a monkey swallowed N70 million from the farm of a senator, Abdullahi Adamu. Sani’s sarcastic statement, followed...
Twenty four hours after the Senate mandated its committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and nine others over statements criticising...
The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated its committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, to investigate comments credited to Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and nine others. In the...
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a Motion calling on the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Health to establish rehabilitation centers in each of the 36...
The ongoing amendment of election sequence by the National Assembly, on Wednesday, caused an uproar on the floor of the Senate. Senators loyal to President Muhammadu...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has again maintained that lawmakers will not be intimated. Saraki who stated this on Tuesday on the floor of the...
Strong indications have emerged that political leaders from the north, may have commenced moves to endorse President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor. This is even as the leaders,...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that state Houses of Assembly which are excessively dependent on governors cannot deliver dividends of...
Chile Okoroma, Director, Legal and Prosecution of the EFCC, said this on Wednesday at a hearing organised by the Senate Anti-Corruption Committee. The committee had invited...
The Nigerian Senate said it has been vindicated on its rejection of the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to intimate it on steps he has taken in resolving herders-farmers’ clashes in the country, particularly, the recent killings...
The Senate on Wednesday, summoned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to appear before its Senate committees on Police Affairs and National Intelligence, following...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its standing committee on Banking to invite the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, managing directors of...
The Senate, on Thursday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to end long queues in petrol stations...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was on Tuesday, named by Dino Melaye in a new multi-million dollar fraud scandal. According to Senator Melaye who spoke...
The Senate, on Thursday, indicted the Presidency, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government, for violating the constitution and other laws of the land,...
There was an uproar on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, when Senator Sunday Ogbuoji rescinded his earlier decision to defect to the ruling All...
The Senate has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to explain to Nigerians why he has been running around the...
There was a mild drama earlier today, when three persons introduced themselves as national presidents of the Independent Marketers Petroleum Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). The trio...
The much anticipated cabinet expansion and reshuffle by President Muhammadu Buhari will no longer be possible this year, Daily Trust reports. The Senate would hold its...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, forwarded nine fresh names of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to the Senate for confirmation. Reading the letter from Buhari, President of...
The fragile relationship between the Senate and the Executive arm of government, may have collapsed, with the 2018 budget proposals of the federal government bearing the...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday came down hard on the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for doing a shoddy job of the 2018 budget. In very unmistakable terms,...
Senate committee on Power, on Monday, questioned the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shahuru and the Permanent Secretary, Frank Edozie, over...
The travails of Senate President Bukola Saraki, over charges of false asset declaration, may not be over as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on...
Almost one week after the 2018 budget passed second reading on the floor of the Senate, the upper legislative chamber is yet to release the timetable,...
It is another budget season, and lawmakers from both chambers of the National Assembly, are going to be busy until the budget is passed. In a...
The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, said it will include a clause in the 2018 Appropriation Act that will stop the Executive from spending excess funds realised...
The Senate has passed the 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) In the passed documents, Senate pegged the exchange rate...
Senators, on Thursday, expressed concerns, over what they described as the increasing debt profile of the country. Solomon Adeola, urged the Senate committee on Local and...
The Senate on Wednesday, called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invite the Libyan Ambassador to Nigeria and discuss how to end the ongoing Libyan...
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, blamed anti-graft agencies in the country of making it difficult for the Federal Government to convince other nations...
The Senate, on Tuesday, hinted that it may summon Service Chiefs to brief it behind closed door, over the resurgence of Boko Haram activities in North...
Senator Emmanuel Paulker, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the reinstatement and promotion of the former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions, Abdulrasheed Maina, on...
The Senate, on Thursday, refused to confirm the nomination of Ahmed Bello Mahmud as a Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) representing Zamfara state. The action of the...
The Senate Wednesday revealed that the refusal of some officials of government to honour its invitation for the consideration of templates contained in the 2018 budget was frustrating...
One day after operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Department of State Services (DSS), and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), were engaged...
President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to two bills passed by the National Assembly. He conveyed his decision via a letter to the Senate. The bills...
Contrary to its earlier plan to commence a debate on the general principles of the 2018 budget, the Senate has announced the deferment of the exercise...
President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has revealed that the upper legislative chamber will begin the consideration of the general principles of the 2018 budget...
The Senate, on Wednesday, said anarchy looms, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The Red Chamber contended that if the security agents are not called to...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed its standing committees on Finance and Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions to probe allegations of unremitted stamp duties revenue, valued...
The Senate, on Tuesday, said a former Leader of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, can resume today, 15th November, having served out his suspension of 90...
