LEGISLATURE

Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to withdraw orderlies attached to his colleagues in the National Assembly and those attached to politicians in the country. “I support that they should take away all their police (officer),”…

Barely 24 hours after a dramatic plenary culminating into the suspension of the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator Abdul Ningi, Southern Senators have revived their forum, electing Senator Adetokunbo Abiru representing Lagos East, as Chairman. The inauguration of Abiru who replaces…

The Senate on Wednesday convened a private meeting with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, and the Commissioner of Police, Benneth Igwe. This meeting was prompted by summons issued by the Senate two weeks prior, requesting their briefing…

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committees on Solid Minerals Development, Commerce, Industry and Special Duties to investigate the arbitrary increase in the price of cement by manufacturers in the country like Dangote Cement and BUA Cement. This followed a motion by…

Amid the controversy trailing the interview by Senator Abdul Ningi, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday said the integrity of the Senate has been totally damaged. Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central, claimed in a recent interview with BBC Hausa that the National…

Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, who represents Cross River North Senatorial District, has said that “senior” senators of the Nigerian Senate got N500 million each from the 2024 budget. The Senate had a sitting on Tuesday, largely to discuss the budget padding allegation made…

The Senate on Monday inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to investigate the Ways and Means and the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Led by the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio and other senators to the inauguration, the move…

There was a heated verbal words among the Chairman Northern Senators Forum, NSF and former Deputy Senate leader, Senator Abdul Ningi, PDP, Bauchi Central and other Senators on Monday over alleged N3. 7 trillion Budget Padding in the Presidency. Senator Ningi had in…