The Senate on Wednesday asked the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to restore the security aides of the Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, with immediate effect.
Obiano had on Tuesday raised the alarm that his security aides have been withdrawn ahead of the governorship...
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Nigerian Senate on Tuesday approved a $5.5 billion external loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The president had in a letter on October 10 requested the Senate to approve $3 billion external loan and $2.5 billion Eurobond or Diaspora bond in the international market.
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The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday decided that the former majority leader, Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) should resume tomorrow after serving six months suspension.
This was part of the resolutions reached by the federal lawmakers after a closed door meeting that lasted for almost thirty...
The Nigerian Senate is set to file an appeal against the judgement of the Federal High Court delivered on Friday which set aside the suspension of Senator Ali Ndume.
Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday held that the suspension of Ndume (APC, Borno South) for 90...
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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declared the suspension of Senator Ali Ndume as illegal and unconstitutional.
Justice Babatunde Quadri on Friday held that the suspension of Ndume (APC, Borno South) for 90 legislative days (Six months) on March 30, 2017 "is a violation of his right...
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Minister of power, Babatunde Fashola, has rubbished and denied claims of financial impropriety made against him by Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west.
Melaye had alleged that the power ministry diverted $35 million to the Afam fast power project without the approval of the national...
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Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a report largely exonerating MTN Nigeria of foreign exchange infractions after being accused of illegally repatriating $14 billion to its parent.
But the Senate report also asked Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sanction Stanbic IBTC Bank “for improper...
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Senator representing Kogi West district Dino Melaye has cried out over reported monumental frauds in the power sector and has raised a motion on the Senate floor titled “Monumental Fraud in Power Sector.”
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Nigerian Senators on Tuesdaay quickly moved into closed session ahead of the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari for the presentation of the 2018 budget proposal.
DailyTrust reports that the Senators went into the session immediately after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki said the opening...
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he Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, says if there is a need, he will appear before the Senate ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of abuse of office levied against him.
Addressing State House reporters on Friday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the IGP said he...
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The Senate has threatened to issue arrest warrant against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, for failing to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of abuse of office against him
The Chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Sen. Francis Alimikhena, issued...
Nigerian Senate on Tuesday resolved to investigate the issues surrounding the recall and promotion of fugitive former pension reform committee chairman, Abdulrasheed Maina into the federal civil service.
The senate asked the Committee on Public Service and Establishment investigate...
Senator Dino Melaye has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is surrounded by canker-worms.
Senator Dino Melaye stated this on Tuesday when he was contributing at the plenary on the reinstatement of the fugive former pension reform chairman, Abdularasheed Maina into the civil service.
He said...
The senate ad hoc committee has alleged that 24 government agencies failed to remit N1.695 trillion revenue to the consolidated revenue fund.
The committee also disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was running on a deficit of about N3.115 trillion between 2012 and...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday said that it would probe how the Paris Club refunds and other bailout funds given to state governors by President Muhammadu Buhari were approved.
The decision by the apex legislative chamber to investigate the funds was provoked by concerns that many state...
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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, Sen. Shehu Sani, says if President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government must borrow, it must borrow responsibly.
Sani gave the advice in a meeting with the Ministers of Transportation; Finance; Budget and National Planning and Power...
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The Senate has commenced the process to rename seven colleges of education to align the location of the institutions affected by boundary adjustment as a result of state creation.
The process to rename the institutions is coming more than 20 years after the states were created.
A bill for the...
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Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has revealed that a number of stalwarts of other political parties were on their way to the main opposition party in droves.
He stated after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senate Caucus met behind closed doors on Wednesday with the party’s...
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The Senate has postponed the commencement of its planned investigation into the alleged award of $25 billion worth of contracts in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Following the allegation of abuse of due process made by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu...
An 87-year-old lawyer and former lawmaker, Senator Cyrus Nunieh, said he decided to marry another wife because he was alone and needed a companion.
Nunieh officially married a lady in her 40s on Tuesday at the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The former member of...
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