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The ‎‎Supreme Court, today, fixed February 5, 2016 to determine ‎the appeal seeking to quash the 13-count criminal charge that the Federal Government preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCT. A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex...

SaharaReporters gathered that Senate President Bukola Saraki blackmailed officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to hand him N250 million as “hush” funds after the senator had found out that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan had illicitly approved N60 billion for the former National Security...

Wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki has lamented the continued ordeal of over 200 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram in Borno State, over 590 days ago. Mrs. Saraki who is also the Founder of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, stated this when she represented the wife of...

The factions in the senate are not backing down just yet and on Tuesday, their disagreements blew into the open once again. It started from the senate plenary when Sen. Kabir Marafa (Zamfara Central) raised a point of order. He demanded just as he had done last week, that the senate committees...

President Muhammadu Buhari, has sent a supplementary appropriation bill for the 2015 fiscal year to the Senate for approval. The president, in a letter conveying his request, which was read on Wednesday, during plenary, by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, asked the Senate to grant his...

Prophet Emmanuel Chukwudi aka Prophet Elijah, the General Overseer of Kings of Kings Deliverance Church has revealed a prophecy that Abubakah Audu will be the governor of Kogi State and stated that Atiku Abubakar will be the next president of Nigeria in 2019. “He opens my eyes under different...

Some factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators yesterday staged a walkout from the chamberas they fault the ascension of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu presiding over the plenary in the absence of Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Saraki had gone to the Presidential Villa...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered stay of proceedings of the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on 13 counts of false assets declaration. The order of Justice John Fabiyi-led five-man panel of the apex court followed a concession given by the...

The Supreme Court will on Thursday (today) hear an application by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for stay of proceedings of his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on 13 counts of false assets declaration, according to Punch newspaper. It was learnt on Wednesday that the Federal...

Nigeria operates a form of government that portrays federalism in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Federation consists of 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory, which are constitutionally empowered with the Legislative, Executive and the Judiciary functions within...

The year was 2013. The principal actors were certain displeased governors. The act was a breakaway. The party was the “New PDP." This was the picture of the political landscape at the time, as occasioned by a certain Goodluck Jonathan who would not look a certain Bukola Saraki in the face over...

Any careful observer of the interaction between Nigeria’s justice system and the political attacks on non-conformists will immediately surmise that Nigeria’s justice system is under attack. Similarly, as democracy is aimed at enshrining institutions and precedents for the common good, and not...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) says it will investigate the action of the senior counsel who represented the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Thursday. NBA General Secretary, Mr Afam Osigwe, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja that...

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Friday lauded the indomitable spirit displayed so far by the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria at the on-going FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Chile, after they defeated their Mexican counterparts 4-2 , to qualify for the finals of the tournament...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out an application by Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, seeking to stop his trial in Abuja. Justice Ibrahim Buba held that the court lacks jurisdiction to hear the application. Saraki is standing trial at the CCT on a 13 count charge of false asset...

The former Minister of Education and foremost campaigner of the BringbackOurGirls, Oby Ezekwesili has slammed Nigeria’s Senate president, Bukola Saraki for closing the Senate so that other senators could escort him to his Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) hearing which she called "Supporters Club...

Saraki's lawyers staged a walkout from the tribunal room as the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) ruled that Senate President Bukola Saraki’s trial must continue despite his appeal at the supreme court. In protest to the ruling, Saraki’s‎ lawyer, Mahmud Magaji said he was withdrawing from the...

Nigeria's CCT has adjourned for one hour to decide on Saraki's plea for stay of proceedings till outcome of his appeal. Mahmud Magaji, counsel to Saraki, had prayed for a stay of proceedings of the tribunal owing to an appeal at the supreme court on the matter. He said that a motion of stay...

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has arrived the Code of Conduct Tribunal with about scores of Senators again. It will be recalled that his last visit to the tribunal witnessed about 80 senators. Some of the senators were Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president (PDP); Sam Anyanwu (PDP)...

SaharaReporters, an online news platform has obtained a copy of the text message sent out to Nigerian Senators urging them to accompany embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki to his corruption trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja today. Mr. Saraki and the leadership of the Senate...