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The Senate, yesterday, mandated its joint Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions and Finance to invite the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to come and explain why the official charges as approved by the CBN … Read more via Newtelegraph –...

Senator Abu Ibrahim has said that peace will be elusive in the Nigerian Senate until its President, Senator Bukola Saraki relinquishes his position.... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2KqhyR8 Get More Nigeria Political News

Despite the political tension in the country, the Senate, this week carried out it’s legislative duties as usual. As the lawmakers prepare to embark on their annual recess, they tackled issues ranging from consideration to confirmation of some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees. Below...

The Department of State Services has arrested the Senator representing Abia South in the Senate, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe. READ MORE HERE

The office of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has released a list of killings over which it said it invited the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for interaction. TIMELINE ON KILLINGS IN MIDDLE BELT SINCE JAN 1 · January 1 – 73 killed in Logo and Guma LGAs in Benue · January 1 – 2...

The Senate plenary was on Wednesday disrupted after suspected thugs invaded the chamber and made away with the maze. The incident happened few seconds after a suspended senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, entered the chamber. PREMIUM TIMES reporter observed that about 10 suspected thugs who came to the...

Watch the video of Buhari's Senators almost beat Senator Abaribe for calling President Buhari "incompetent"

The Senate has suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege for 90 days over his comment that the amendment to the Electoral Act 2010 to reorder the sequence of polls in a general election was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions had...

The Senate has rejected report of a joint committee on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence. The joint committee was mandated to ensure compliance with the resolution of an ad-hoc committee on security which visited Benue State in the wake of the recent killings. Read more...

In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, senator Shehu Sani reviewed the successes and failures of the President Buhari administration as he saw it. While he was complimentary about the president's successes with Boko Haram, he could not hide his concerns over the failing fight against...

Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki has stated that the Red Chamber is ready to pass the new minimum wage bill as soon as it is presented to the house by the executive arm of government. According to him, all the indices upon which the last minimum wage of N18, 000 was approved had...

The Nigerian senate on Tuesday voted to alter the 1999 constitution and strip state governments of the responsibility of organizing local government elections. According to the senate, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should conduct state government elections henceforth...

The Nigeria senate on Wednesday said the menace of herdsmen should be nipped in the bud, else they would develop into another insurgency group like Boko Haram. Senator Clifford Ordia (Edo Central) moved the ‘Motion on the Need to Curtail the Activities of the Fulani Herdsmen’, and asked the...

PDP senators are not happy about the continued chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee by Senator Andy Uba, who recently defected to the APC, a report from Punch says. The senators are expected to stage a protest soon, to put Senate President Bukola Saraki under pressure to remove the...

The Nigerian senate on Tuesday passed the bill for an Act to establish the National Sports Commission(NSC). This commission is expected to oversee the administration of sports and other related matters in the country. The bill was sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports, Mr...

Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki has defended the National Assembly's 2017 budget. According to him the N125billion set aside for the legislature is totally insignificant when compared to the entire budget for the year. “In as much as we would take our criticism, we owe a...

The Nigerian senate has announced that it has started probing the lopsided recruitment by the State Secret Service, SSS. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Tijjani Kaura, during Thursday’s plenary quoted Order 43 of the Senate Standing Order...

The fresh crisis brewing between the Nigerian senate and the senate has been cooled down. The senate on Wednesday had accused the presidency of allowing political appointee Lanre Gbajamila to resume office without confirmation from the senate. READ: Serious War Looms Between Senate, Presidency...

The Nigerian Senate has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other revenue generating agencies to stop further capital expenditure until they comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Act. ‎It said that the agencies had violated the Act and gave them two weeks to submit...