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The family of Asta, the wife of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has confirmed that their daughter got married to the IGP but was publicly at the Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna. Senator Isa Hamman Misau had on Wednesday on the floor of the Senate alleged that the IGP married Asta...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday moved to conduct holistic investigation into alleged corruption in the Nigerian national petroleum corporation. Saraki listed the following as members of the committee to carry out the investigation: Senator Aliyu Wamakko as chairman. Senator Tayo Alasoadura...

Nigerian Senate has named 6-member committee that will conduct probe into the alleged corrupt practices of the Inspector General of Police, , Mr. Ibrahim Idris. Senator Isa Misau, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, has asked the Senate to probe the Inspector General of Police, Mr...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday moved to conduct holistic investigation into alleged corruption in the Nigerian national petroleum corporation. This is coming a day after the minister of State for petroluem , Dr Ibe Kachikwu's memo on the National oil company, Dr. Baru alleged insubordination and...

Senator Isa Misau, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, has asked the Senate to probe the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, over alleged corrupt practices and misconduct. Senator Misau stated this during Wednesday's plenary. He reiterated his earlier allegations...

Nigerian Senate on Tuesday revisited the regulatory conflict between JAMB and Universities in offering admission in Nigeria The bill was sponsored by Senator Umaru I. Kurfi. In his argument, the Senate leader, Senator Ahmed Lawan said there is no need for post UTME since we trust the...

Nigerian Senate has ordered removal of speed bumps on federal highways across the country. The Senators came to terms on this at the resumption of plenary of Tuesday while debating on urgent need to control the indiscriminate erection of speed bumps on Federal Roads Nationwide by Senator...

Nigeria Senate has approved death sentence for abduction, wrongful restraints or wrongful confinement for ransom. The upper chamber also approved 30 years jail term for anybody that colluded with an abductor. This followed the passage of a bill on abduction, wrongful restraints or wrongful...

A former governor of Yobe State, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim (APC, Yobe East), said yesterday that he will be in the Senate for life. Ibrahim had served as Yobe governor three times before he went to the Senate in 2007. He was re-elected in 2011 and for the third time in 2015. He is at the...

The war of words between the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), continued yesterday with Itse Sagay referring to Oyegun and other leaders of the party as “Come and...

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on Wednesday reacted to news reports over alleged query on him by the Senators at a closed door session on Tuesday. Senator Abaribe was reacting to a report published article by DailyTrust that the Senators quiered him over Nnamdi Kanu's bail. Deputy Senate...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday sworn in Senator Andrew Uchendu representing Rivers East Senatorial district who replacesd Senator Sekibo due to Court ruling . Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu administered the oath of office on Senator Uchedu. The Court of Appeal in Abuja had sacked...

Reports say that the leadership of the Senate and governors from South East are to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on ways to resolve the crises emanating from the series of ethnic agitations. The senators’ resolve to meet with the executive was reached on Tuesday at its resumption after...

South east senators were reportedly questioned by some of their colleagues for giving tacit support to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). According to Daily Trust, the accusations were made at a closed session when the Senate reconvened yesterday after an extended annual break. The...

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday arrived the National Assembly Complex to notify the embattled lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, on the petition the commission received from his constituents to recall him. The...

The former Senate Leader, Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno on Monday unveiled a one-point agenda for the rest of his tenure in the upper chamber. Ndume was suspended on March 29, this year for six months expected to resume on Tuesday next weekbut it was gathered that the Borno lawmaker will...

Nigerian senator representing Delta-North Senatorial District, Peter Nwaoboshi, has reportedly shunned several invitations from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The self-acclaimed ‘loyalist’ of convicted former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, "despite EFCC's due...

Former Nigerian Senator, Mohammed Kabiru Jibril is dead. Senator Jubril was elected to represent the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the Kaduna Central district of Kaduna State in April 2007 Mohammed Kabiru Jibril was born on 18 May 1958. Prior to election to the senate, he was the...

National Assembly has postponed its resumption from annual recess by one week. No reason was given for the decision. The lawmakers, who were to resume on September 19, are now to resume on September 26, 2017. This was contained in a statement by Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. Mohammed...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been given approval to effect Senator Dino Melaye's recall process. Here are seven reasons why Justice Nnamdi Dimgba held that all the complaints made by Melaye lack merit and deserve to be dismissed. 1. The Court said Melaye still...