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(Abuja) Lawmakers in the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday vehemently rejected a bill seeking to amend the Constitution to allow persons of African origin acquire Nigerian citizenship . The bill sponsored by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce aims at re-integrating and developing the African region...

Nigeria’s senate during a plenary session on Wednesday, blocked move to recognize Kogi as an oil-producing state. The lawmaker representing Kogi East Senatorial District, Senator Isaac Alfa had moved the motion titled, ‘Need to Recognise Kogi State as an Oil-Producing State’. According to...

THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that it is working on building a National Assembly whose actions and practices will be in line with what obtains in developed democracies across the world, and take it away from what has been the practice in … Read more via Vanguard News –...

The Police reform bill has scaled the third reading of the Nigerian Senate and has subsequently been passed today, 17th April, for the first time since 1943 when the original bill was formulated. The new Police reform bill would take into account the welfare, safety and well being … Read...

The Senate on Wednesday passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) a second time, after President Muhammadu Buhari earlier declined assent to the bill. This followed presentation of the bill at plenary by the Leader of the Senate, Sen. Ahmed Lawan. The Upper Chamber equally passed …...

The Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, yesterday pressed ahead with his bid for the headship of the ninth National Assembly, promising to protect legislative … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2KKuFBW Get More Nigeria Political News

It was at the old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, on December 13, 2018, during the launching of one of his support groups, ‘Together Nigeria’, that President Muhammadu Buhari unreservedly made an undertaking to handsomely reward loyal All Progressives Congress (APC) members, who work...

For the first time since the All Progressives Congress (APC) announced its preferences for the key leadership positions of the National Assembly, Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno State, has publicly expressed his support for Yobe North senator, Ahmed Lawan, in unmistabkable terms, to become...

Ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly, the Senate Leader, one of the top contenders for the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, yesterday denied meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors. Denying the report titled “Lawan defies Oshiomole, meet with PDP...

The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of Major-General Paul Tarfa (rtd) as Chairman of the North East Development Commission (NEDC). The appointments of Mohammed Goni Alkali as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NEDC, and nine other members, were also...

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has warned against imposition of presiding officers on the ninth National Assembly due for inauguration in June. Dogara, who spoke at … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2U1dVG8 Get More Nigeria Political News

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday met behind closed doors with the former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume. Ndume has been aspiring to be President of the 9th Senate due for inauguration in June. He had declared his intention to run for the number three highest political office … Read more via...

Except the move drowns in the murky waters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) politics and the raging National Assembly (NASS) leadership crisis, the South-South geopolitical zone may produce the next deputy Senate president. APC national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, declared...

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, a lawyer and consummate grassroots politician, was suspended by the leadership of the 8th Senate last year after pulling a one-man opposition squad against it in support of President Muhammadu Buhari. In this interview with LEADERSHIP Sunday, he speaks on his deputy...

As the battle for the leadership of the Senate intensifies ahead of the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly in June, the camps of the senators-elect seeking to take over the leadership of the Red Chamber have shifted their attention to opposition members,Akelicious can report. Already...

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has insisted he does not have the power to choose who becomes the Senate President of the 9th National Assembly. Oshiomhole stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s Hard Copy on Friday. According to him...

Senator Ali Ndume of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has insisted that he would challenge the decision of the party in choosing Ahmad Lawan to be the next Senate President. Ndume who addressed journalists in Abuja claimed that he had received an endorsement from President Muhammadu Buhari...

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has urged Nigerian senators to reduce their salaries and allowances as it is ‘too much.’ While speaking at a public hearing on a bill for an act to repeal the Police Act, Mr Akiolu also said the Nigerian Army has killed the efficiency of the police..... Read...

Senators were, yesterday, divided over the alleged non-remittance of N177 billion operational surplus made by Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, into the consolidated federation account. The Red Chamber The disagreement came up when a member of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, which...