The Senate has suspended Sen. Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi) from all Senate activities for three months following allegations of 2024 budget padding. Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC-Ogun) proposed...
Nigerian Senate has rejected plans by the Ministry of Power to increase electricity tariff given the present hardship in the country. The Senate...
Ministerial nominee identified as Dr Bosun Tijani apologised to the Senate over non-patriotic tweets he had tweeted prior to his nomination by President Bola Tinubu. Senator...
Ramatu Shehu, a Senate aspirant in the just concluded All Progressives Congress Senatorial primary in Kogi Central, has rejected the result of election in which she...
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), sent a request for approval of adjustments to the 2022 fiscal framework to the Senate on Tuesday. Buhari, in...
The amendment of Section 84 (12) which prevents political office holders from contesting for election from the party primary level without resigning as proposed by President...
The Senate has passed Bill which seeks to allow independent candidates to contest for elective positions. The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday, March 1, 2022...
The Senate has passed for first reading a bill which makes it an offence for any landlord to demand advance rent from tenants of residential, office...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed some National Commissioners and Resident Electoral Commissioners to replace the outgoing ones, Top Naija reports. This is contained in Buhari’s...
On Wednesday, the Nigerian Senate mourned the deaths of travellers burnt to ashes on Monday by suspected bandits on their way to Gayan in Kaduna State....
The Senate has passed a bill to establish the Real Estate Regulatory Council of Nigeria on Wednesday. The Council would be established with the aim to...
The Senate, on Tuesday, has condemned the ‘unconstitutional attempted impeachment’ of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Abok Ayuba of the Plateau State House of Assembly. This Senate...
The Senate has announced its support for the compulsory COVID-19 vaccination of public workers in the federal and state civil service. The Chairman of the Senate...
The Senate on Tuesday opposed the Federal Ministry of Health’s proposal to borrow $200m for the purchase of mosquito nets in the 2022 budget. The Senate...
Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has expressed his concern on how 2022 budget will be funded amid high rate of debt servicing. Lawan has however...
Osita Okechukwu, Voice of Nigeria’s Director-General, has said that the electronic transmission of election results will lead to ‘one man, one vote’ in Nigeria. Speaking with...
The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has said that direct primary is a plot to introduce anarchy during internal party elections. The PDP on Tuesday said in a...
On Tuesday, a bill seeking to amend the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshots Act, 2017, was considered by the Senate. Sponsored by Senator...
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Professor Sani Muhammad Adam, as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) representing the North Central zone....
The Senate, on Thursday, passed the harmonised Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which was made by a conference committee of both chambers of the National Assembly last...
The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a bill which seeks to establish the Electoral Offences Commission. The red panel agreed among others, at least 10 years jail...
The Senate, on Tuesday, disclosed that the nomination of President’s Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie was rejected because of her partisanship and breach of federal character principle....
The Senate Committee on Basic Education, on Monday, said it would work to amend the law that establishes Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to prevent...
The Senate, on Tuesday, instructed six of its committees to probe Economic Recovery and Growth Plan of the Federal Government between 2017 and 2020. The panels...
Senators resumed plenary today at the National Assembly. To mark the end of their second legislative year after a one-week break. The heavy down pour of...
The Senate has declared that it is impossible for the 9th National Assembly to stiffen the media in Nigeria with its present amendments to the acts...
The Senate finally broke its silence on the indefinite suspension of Twitter by the Federal Government when its President, Ahmad Lawan, stated that Nigeria needs the...
The joint minority caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has urged Nigerians to disregard the ban placed by the Federal Government on Twitter...
The Senate Public Accounts Committee on Tuesday threatened to petition the required provisions of the constitution to force about 56 Federal Government agencies to appear before...
The Senate approved the upgrade of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State to a University of Technology on Tuesday. The turn of events followed the third...
The Senate has disclosed that it would meet with the Service Chiefs, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency and the Inspector General of Police on...
The Senate, on Wednesday, voted on the proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution during which the lawmakers rejected devolution of power to the states. At its...
NICON Insurance Limited has blamed a report on its invite to the Senate over inability to remit pension fund to the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD)....
The Senate approved the sum of N257,183,671,694.71 as the budget for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for the 2021 financial year on Wednesday. The approval was...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Sen. Ajayi Boroffice, on Friday said the Buhari–led administration had performed excellently in its anti- corruption fight and...
The Senate, on Tuesday, considered a bill seeking to enable the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) with regards to assets recovery, and also fortify it...
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday. The President...
The Senate confirmed the appointment of former Service Chiefs as Ambassadors-Designate on Tuesday after their names were sent to the upper chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Senate, on Thursday, reviewed a bill requesting to put an end to employers in the private and public sectors from hiring employable Nigerian graduates as...
The Nigerian senate has directed its committees on communications and legislative compliance to interrogate Isa Pantami, communications minister, over the country’s growing insecurity. The resolution of...
