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Nigeria's Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has described some politicians, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to All Progressives Congress, APC, as hungry peoples saying it was motivated business interest. Ekweremadu stated this at the expanded caucus...

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu today congratulated his colleagues on the handling of the 2017 budget. Speaking during the budget debate on the floor of the Senate, Ekweremadu said, ''We have started well, no missing 2017 Budget, all information produced, improvement arising from...

Nigeria's Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu during plenary on Thursday questioned President Muhammadu Buhari's authority to send Nigerian military troops to help oust President Yahaya Jammeh of Gambia out of office.

Nigeria's Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has assured the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful and Nigerians that he "is going no where.” A statement by his Assistant on Political Affairs, Hon. Okey Ozoani, says reports of his defection to APC are spurious. “Senator Ekweremadu is...

APC Senators have continued to pile up pressure on Ike Ekweremadu to defect to the APC in order to retain his seat as Nigeria's Deputy Senate President. A member of the Senate Unity Forum, Kabir Marafa, is the latest senator urging Ekweremadu to defect. During an interview published by Punch...

A member of the Senate Unity Forum, a group within the All Progressives Congress senators in the red chamber, Senator Kabir Marafa has called on the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu to join the All Progressives Congress, APC. In an interview with PUNCH, the senator explained said the...

The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has asked the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to call the bluff of the All Progressives Congress senators who asked him to defect to their party in order to retain his seat. The APC senators, who are in the majority in...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday heavily criticized and called for the reversal of President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government’s policy banning the importation of cars through land borders. The ban took effect from January 1, 2017. According to the Senate, the ban will lead to a loss of...

The spokesperson of the Senate Unity Forum (SUF), a forum that canvassed for Lawan’s Presidency, Senator Kabiru Marafa (APC, Zamfara) advised the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu to decamp to the APC. Marafa who said the emergence of Lawan has ended the storm in the Senate said...

The senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday. Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, who presided over a session of the upper legislative chamber, disclosed this on Wednesday. According to...

Aggrieved Senators elected under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who staged a walk-out on Wednesday returned to plenary on Thursday. For about five minutes, the Senators led by Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio did not enter the chamber after Senate President, Dr...

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday explained that the word 'virement' is an illegal and military term, stressing that it does not have its root in the constitution. Referring to section 81(2) of 1999 constitution as amended, he explained that virement is a military term which...

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has joined other prominent Nigerians to hail the decision of the Court of Appeal, which reinstated Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ondo State governorship election. “The freeness, fairness, and...

President Muhamamdu Buhari is meeting in closed doors with the Senate leaders, Bukola Saraki and Senator Ike Ekweremadu at the State house. “Today President Buhari is meeting with Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, at the State House”, the statement...

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu said Wednesday that the Nigeria opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will work assiduously with the President-Elect of the United States of America, USA, Mr. Donald Trump. In a statement by his Special Adviser, Media, Uche...

Senators of the federal republic of Nigeria have threatened to boycott sittings if the Independent Electoral National Commission, INEC, doesn't conduct National Assembly Elections in Rivers and Anambra states. Rivers currently doesn't have any representative in the Red Chamber and the Anambra...

The Nigerian senate on Wednesday resolved to suspend its sittings if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not conduct national assembly rerun election in Rivers state by December 10. Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in a motion filed at the plenary urged the senate...

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu on Thursday, paid a solidarity visit to detained former appointees of Goodluck Jonathan administration. VANGUARD reports that those visited include, Femi Fani Kayode, Bala Mohammed and Dr. Reuben Abati. Abati was granted bail by the the Economic and...

The federal government will file fresh individual charges against Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy Ike Ekweremadu, Vanguard reports. A top official at the Ministry of Justice said the charges were withdrawn in the first instance because the police was yet to complete its...

The Federal Government on Friday, withdrew the forgery charges against President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu before the FCT High Court in Abuja. The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu on Friday described the...