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Senate President Bukola Saraki has described recent moves by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe him as politically motivated and a witch-hunt. Mr Saraki said the anti-graft agency was only investigating matters that were already settled. The Senate President was...

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Monday said the current probe on Nigeria Senate president Bukola Saraki was not in connection to his recent... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – http://bit.ly/2H4iqfE Get More Nigeria Metro News

Senator Shehu Sani has revealed the reason behind the fight between Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and Bola Tinubu. Just few days ago, Tinubu launched an attack on the National Assembly leadership which he accused of budget padding. This led to a war … Read more via...

Senate President Bukola Saraki and 216 lawmakers not re-elected in the National Assembly elections are to receive severance allowances amounting to N1.3bn, investigation has shown. Other prominent lawmakers that would be entitled to the severance package are a former Senate President, David...

Senate President Bukola Saraki says Bola Tinubu is angry with him because he opposed Tinubu’s ambition for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in the 2015 presidential election. It was believed that Tinubu wanted to be running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari...

2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration From Across Nigeria (Photos) by naptu2: 2:18pm President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, the ministers of Defence...

Widening splits in Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s ruling All Progressives Congress are jeopardizing his bid for re-election next year. As the APC holds its national convention to elect party executives on Saturday, it’s threatened by defections as well as infighting between the...

The signing of the 2018 Appropriation Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, which was expected to hold Wednesday could not because of the absence of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who were out of the country.... Read more via...

ILORIN—Former lawmakers, on the platform of Kwara State Forum of Ex-Legislators, rose, yesterday, in defense of President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed over an alleged plot to link them to the activities of kidnappers and cultists, who were arrested in …...

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has thanked Nigerians all over the country for their support and encouragement towards the work of the 8th Senate since it was inaugurated three years ago. In a statement issued from Saudi Arabia where he is on lesser hajj, … Read more...

There are growing concerns over the whereabouts of Michael Adikwu and Kayode Opadokun, two of the arrowheads of the Offa bank robbery. In a press statement on Sunday to update the public with details of the investigation into the robbery and the invitation to Senate President Bukola Saraki …...

The Inspector General of Police (IG) Thursday dragged the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the Senate to the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court over the resolution … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2sRtiVY Get More Nigeria Political News

Senate President, Bukola Saraki pays surprise visit to Nigerian Super Eagles ahead of their friendly match against England on Saturday...... read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2xmDHOQ Get More Nigeria Sports News

All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are to meet today with leaders of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) over their grievances. A group of APC members led by one-time Acting PDP National Chairman Kawu Baraje, claiming marginalisation of its members by the APC-led Federal...

Anti-graft detectives are closing in on Bamikole Omishore, an aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was recently exposed for allegedly using his wife as a ghost-worker, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. Official confirmation and other information obtained from sources at the Economic and...

The controversy arising from the arrest of some alleged cultists in Kwara State and warning of blackmail against Senate President, Bukola Saraki, deepened yesterday as the Kwara State caucus in the House of Representatives and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, … Read more via...

Since 2015, Abiola Aiyegbayo, wife of Bamikole Omisore, Special Adviser on International Relations to Senate President Bukola Saraki, has been receiving monthly salaries of N151,788 from the Senate without rendering any service to the National Assembly, documents obtained by SaharaReporters...

Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police, has responded to claims he is trying to “frame and implicate” Senate President Bukola Saraki. At the plenary of the Senate on Wednesday morning, Saraki had said some cultists were arrested in Kwara State, with statements taken from them and with...

THE Force Headquarters has condemned the purported list of killings in Nigeria in the year 2018, allegedly released by the Senate, saying the action was not only capable... Read more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2Ihm6cj Get More Nigeria Political News

Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will sponsor 100 Muslims and Christians from Kwara State on pilgrimages. Saraki made this known after the inauguration... Read more via Pulse.ng News – https://ift.tt/2rBxGYt Get More Nigeria Metro News