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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has advised leadership of the senate on the best way to handle the alleged forgery case. Dogara called for caution, warning that the National Assembly may find it difficult to function properly in the face of continuous external...

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and two other's trial, now to hold Sept. 28. According to Sumner Shagari Sambo ‏, TVC Correspondent in Abuja. the case could not be heard today due to annual recess of Judiciary. Saraki, Ekweremadu, and two co-accused – a former...

The Federal Government has lined up 14 witnesses in the forgery suit against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, outgoing clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, and his deputy, Mr. Ben Efeturi, slated for today at the High Court of the Federal...

A new four-man team of prosecutors have taken over the forgery trial of Nigeria's Senate President Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and other principal officers of the Red Chamber, The Punch report. The new team is headed by ex Kano Justice Commissioner, Aliyu Umar (SAN). Other members of the...

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says the party is sad that a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the Deputy Senate President. Reacting to a comment by Senator Dino Melaye that the APC should be grateful that it didn’t lose the...

Prominent Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana, has scolded principal officers of the Nigerian senate, telling them to face the forgery charges against them instead of attacking the Presidency. Speaking on “The limit of executive immunity”, in Benin on Saturday, Falana called on Senate President...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South East has joined the presidency in advising all the principal officers of the National Assembly, NASS, facing trial for alleged forgery to resign their positions in the Assembly to concentrate on their defence. The Zonal Publicity Secretary of the...

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir Lawal, has tackled Nigeria's senate president, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, over statements made about their forgery trials. Both senate leaders had pointed fingers and alleged that a cabal exists within the...

Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has incurred the wrath of his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) colleagues in the Senate over what senators of the PDP have reportedly described as Akpabio’s involvement in “anti-party activities”, Signal NG reports. According to Signal, an...

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Mallami, will today appear before the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters over the Senate Rules forgery suit. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, outgoing Clerk...

The forgery charges preferred against presiding officers of the Senate assumed a new dimension yesterday as Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu wrote to the United Nations and other foreign missions over his trial at an FCT High Court. The letter dated June 28, 2016 was titled: “Re...

Nigeria's Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu, has written a letter to world leaders over the forgery case instigated against him and other principal officers of the senate by the federal government. In the letter, Ekweremadu called for intervention of the United Nations, Us Congress...

Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu has accused the presidency of declaring war on the country’s legislature in the ongoing forgery trial. Ekweremadu in a statement said the country’s democracy, which clearly stipulated the separation of powers, was being threatened by the...

A Federal High Court in Abuja today granted bail to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and the fourth defendant over charges of alleged forgery of the Nigerian Senate Standing Rules. The trial judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, said that the decision was in...

Photos of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy Senator Ike Ekweremadu and two other s at the hearing of a suit filled at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the federal government over alleged forgery of senate rules. Photo Source: Sumner Shagari Sambo of TVC

Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu were escorted by 30 senators for their trial at the federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Abuja. READ: Saraki, Ekweremadu Arrive Court For Forgery Trial THE CABLE reports that the Senators arrived in two Coaster buses and...

Nigeria's Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, has stated that the executive has nothing to do with the travails of the leadership of the national assembly. There have been reports and criticisms that President Muhammadu Buhari is behind the continued "persecution" of Senate President Bukola...

Anxiety has gripped members of the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, as Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, today appear before the High Court, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja for allegedly forging Senate Rules in 2015. The two Principal officers of the...

Suspected bailiffs on Tuesday pasted a court summons on the notice board of the national assembly, inviting Senate President Bukola Saraki and his Deputy Ike Ekweremadu, to appear before the FTC High Court next Monday for allegedly forging the Senate Standing Order 2015. The outgoing Clerk to...

The Nigerian Senate has summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to explain the basis for the forgery charges pressed against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. The resolution to summon Mr. Malami followed a motion by Dino Melaye who...