The chairman of the Senate Committee on Youth and Community Engagement, Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South), said that the recently passed National Youths Service Corps Trust...
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has assured Nigerian media practitioners of the protection of their rights. Akpabio’s assertion was contained in a statement...
The Nigerian Peace Corps Establishment Bill, earlier passed by the House of Representatives on February 29, 2024, and transmitted to the Senate for concurrence has been...
The Nigerian Senate has denied reports of a fight over seating arrangements at Tuesday’s plenary at the renovated chamber. Recall that the Senate earlier in the...
It was a shameful moment on Tuesday as Senators returned to their plenary session after a long forty-day break for Easter and Sallah, and things took...
The Senate says it is engaging the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and other relevant ministries and agencies to harmonise the National Identification Number (NIN), the...
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives are set to resume plenary in renovated chambers after two years of renovation. Naija News reports that the renovation...
The Senate has said that its president, Godswill Akpabio, has no power to recall suspended Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central), adding that only the 108 lawmakers...
The Senate has hinted at a possible reconsideration of Senator Abdul Ningi’s suspension, which was imposed after he alleged that the Red Chamber “padded” the 2024...
The Senate has hinted at the possibility of lifting the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi). Recall that the embattled lawmaker was given a three-month...
The Senate Committee on Power has initiated an investigative hearing on the recent hikes in electricity tariffs, signalling a critical evaluation of energy pricing policies amid...
The Senate committee on power has commenced investigative hearing on electricity tariff hike in the country. The investigative hearing is taking place at the National Assembly...
Disturbed by the latest depreciation of the Naira against major foreign currencies, the Senate through its Committee on Finance, has said that it is exploring a...
The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund said the upper chamber of the National Assembly may soon amend the existing law on the minimum entry...
The Senate passed a bill, included with the foreign aid package, that will ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year. Senators...
The Senate Committee on Power has summoned the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and the top echelon of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to appear...
The Senate Committee on Power has summoned the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) leadership over the recent electricity tariff...
The Senate Committee on Power has summoned the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, and the top echelon of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to appear...
The Nigerian Senate has postponed its resumption from recess for a second time. The Clerk of the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze, made the disclosure in a statement...
The Senate has for a second time postponed its resumption from recess. The upper chamber of the National Assembly was earlier billed to resume plenary on...
Findings have shown that nine of the 13 former Governors in the 10th National Assembly have sponsored at least a bill each to their credit. Naija...
A document from the National Assembly shows that at least four of the 13 former Governors in the Senate and 21 other senators have not sponsored...
The intrigues ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting took a fresh twist yesterday as the PDP caucus in the Senate...
The Senate has commenced probe into the financial records of 774 federal agencies based on the queries raised against them in the 2019 report of the...
Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has called on Nigerians to imbibe the sacrifice and pains Jesus Christ went through on the cross. Bamidele who said this in...
Supporters of former Senate President and secretary to the government of the federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, at the...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said the Red Chamber will soon lift the suspension on Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central). This is coming 24 hours...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said he is not the one responsible for the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP – Bauchi Central). Senator Akpabio also...
A former federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, has criticized Nigeria’s budgeting system, which he described as an avenue used to defraud the country and enrich a...
The Senate, through its ad hoc committee probing the issuance of N22.7 trillion Ways and Means to the Federal Government during President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by...
The Senate’s Communications Committee, on Wednesday, approved the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, budget of N549.6 billion for 2024. This was made known during a joint Senate...
The Senate has passed a bill seeking the establishment of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Trust Fund. The bill, sponsored by Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC,...
The Senate on Wednesday proposed sanctions for parents who have neglected their children and denied them formal education in the country. This followed a motion on...
Senate on Wednesday, passed for second reading, a bill for an act to amend the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act 2024. The bill, which sought to...
Worried by the alarming 20 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, the Senate on Wednesday asked the judiciary in all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory,...
President Bola Tinubu has forwarded the Judicial Office Holders Salaries and Allowances Bill, 2024, to the Senate to improve the welfare of judicial officers generally. Tinubu,...
The Senate Joint Committee on Army, Navy, Defense, and Air Force committees and the service chiefs met on Wednesday over the recent killing of soldiers in...
The senate The Senate has approved the Student Loan, Access to Higher Education Act 2024 after reviewing the report from the committee on tertiary institutions and...
The Senate Ad-hoc Committee investigating the N30 trillion Ways and Means on Tuesday insisted on recovery of loans offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria and...
The Nigerian Senate has passed N446.3 billion as the 2024 Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, budget. The action of the Red Chamber followed its adoption and...
The 10th Senate under the leadership of Godswill Akpabio has passed a Bill, which seeks to establish the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Trust Fund. The...
The 10th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed four persons nominated by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Managing Director and Executive...
The Senate ad hoc committee probing the disbursement and usage of the N30 trillion Ways and Means loan obtained during the administration of former President Muhammadu...
The Senate has extended the implementation of the 2023 budget and the Supplementary Appropriation till June 30, 2024. This was sequel to the adoption of the...
The Senate has approved the Federal Capital Territory, FCT 2024 Statutory Budget of N1.28 trillion. The budget was approved after the consideration of the harmonised report...
The Senate has said it would invite a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over the N30 trillion ‘Ways and Means’ obtained...
The Senate has asked the Federal Government to immediately compensate the families of the 16 murdered army officers and soldiers. The request was made during a...
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed four persons nominated by President Bola Tinubu as Managing Director and Executive Directors of Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON. The...
The Nigerian Senate condemned the killing of 16 soldiers in Okuama community which happened on Thursday last week while attempting to restore peace among the warring...
The Senate has asked security forces to fish out killers of 16 military personnel at Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State....
The Senate has described the killings of 16 personnel of the Nigerian Army by armed groups during a peace mission to the Okuama Community in Ughelli...
The Senate has called for justice for the officers and soldiers killed by unknown gunmen during a peace mission to the riverside Ijaw and Urhobo communities...
Pan-northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, Saturday, condemned the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi over the alleged padding of the 2024 budget to the tune of...
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has condemned the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi over his revelation of alleged padding of the 2024 budget to the tune...
The Senate and the House of Representatives are set to relocate to their main hallowed chambers next month after holding plenaries in makeshift halls for two...
Constituents of Bauchi Central Senatorial District have condemned the decision of the Senate to suspend their lawmaker, Senator Abdul Ningi, for three months. The constituents, under...
Almost two years of holding plenaries in makeshift halls, the Senate and the House of Representatives are set to relocate to their main hallowed chambers next...
The Senate on Thursday, disowned the alleged report of a fraud in the turn-around maintenance of the nation’s refineries currently being undertaken by the Nigerian National...
As construction works are almost complete in the main hallowed chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives after about one and half years, lawmakers...
The Senate has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to authorise issuance of N1.1trillon from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) statutory revenue account. The passage...
The Senate has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to authorize issuance of N1.1trillon from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT, statutory revenue account. The passage...
The Senate has rubbished the call by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the resignation of Senate President Godswill Akpabio over the alleged padding of the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the Senate, demanding a repeal and reenactment of the students loan act. Tinubu made the demand in a letter...
The Senate through its Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, has promised to review the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, in order to...
The Senate on Thursday adopted a resolution to provide chronic kidney disease patients with comprehensive health insurance packages. The resolution followed a motion sponsored by Senator...
Senator Ningi Senator Abdul Ningi has stated that no one can control the can of worms he opened following his claims that the 2024 budget was...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, has said that he warned Senator Abdul Ningi on the allegation that the 2024 budget was padded...
The Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro, has said the Senate was right to suspend the Senator representing Bauchi Central in the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, over...
A civic-tech non-profit organisation, BudgIT, has accused the National Assembly of inserting 7,447 constituency projects worth N2.24 trillion in the 2024 project. The organisation said this...
The senator representing Anambra North in the National Assembly, Tony Nwoye, has said he did not get an allocation of N500 million for intervention projects in his...
A civic organisation focused on the Nigerian budget and public data, BudgIT, has thrown its weight behind suspended Senator Abdul Ningi on a N3.7 trillion gap...
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (Alteration) Bill, 2024 on rotation of power among the geo-political zones, senatorial zones and federal constituencies for...
The 51 Senators from the 17 southern states on Wednesday elected Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru (APC – Lagos East) as the new chairman of the forum...
The Federal Government has budgeted N2.5billion for Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to procure deep freezers, generators and other items as empowerment projects for his constituents Naija...
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of Dr Ruby Onwudiwe as a member of the Board of Directors of the Central...
Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevoluntionNow, has called for the scrapping of the Nigerian senate. Sowore said the Senate has become a coven and retirement home for...
The Senate, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and the Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igwe, entered into a closed-door meeting on Wednesday over...
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South senatorial district, on Wednesday suggested that he would have handled the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi if he were the...
The lawmaker representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Opeyemi Bamidele, has confirmed that Senators received N500 million for constituency projects. Bamidele, who is also the Majority Leader of...
The Senate has refuted a claim that some lawmakers got N300 million to N500 million as funds for constituency projects. Naija News reported that the Senate...
The Senate has said the N3.7 trillion allegedly added to the 2024 budget was statutory transfers to first-line charge agencies of government not domiciled in the...
The senate on Tuesday decided to suspend Senator Abdul Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central Senatorial District, for a period of three months over his claims that the...
Things got pretty chaotic in the Senate on Tuesday as the Point of Order raised by Senator Olamilekan Adeola, who chairs the Senate Committee on Appropriations,...
Famous Nigerian journalist, Rufai Oseni, has dared the Senate to allow Senator Abdul Ningi talk freely about his allegations over the 2024 Appropriation Act. The statement...
The Senate has suspended the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central in the National Assembly, Senator Abdul Ningi, for three months from all legislative duties. Ningi, a chieftain of...
Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday decried the budget padding allegation rocking the Senate. Oshiomhole lamented that the Senate has been striped naked in the...
The Senate was thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of federal government’s palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their constituents. The...
The Senate has been thrown into a rowdy session following revelation of uneven distribution of federal government’s palliatives to senators for onward disbursement to their constituents. ...
Senators, on Tuesday afternoon, exchanged words over a claim by Senator Abdul Ningi, representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District of Bauchi State, that the 2024 Budget was...
Senators Isa Jibrin (Kogi West), Sahabi Ya’u Alhaji (Zamfara), Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central) are among lawmakers that will unravel the mystery behind the spending of the...
A member of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF) and chairman of the Senate Services Committee, Senator Sunday Karimi has berated Senator Abdul Ningi over claims that...
A member of the Senate Appropriation Committee and representative of Ondo South Senatorial District, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, has vehemently disputed claims made by his colleague Senator...
The Senate on Monday inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to probe how the N30 trillion Ways and Means loans of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was...
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has faulted traditional rulers in Kogi State for kicking against the Senate probe panel on Ajaokuta Steel...
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has expressed his views on the alleged padding of the 2024 budget with N3 trillion....
Three All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators have disagreed with Senator Abdul Ningi, representing Bauchi Central, that the 2024 budget was padded with N3 trillion. Naija News...