Tag: 2023, ABUJA, AHMAD LAWAN, ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS, ELECTION, Osinbajo, Politics, PRESIDENT, SENATE PRESIDENT, SENATORS, VICE PRESIDENT
2023: What We Told Osinbajo About His Presidential Ambition – Senate President, Lawan
The All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the senate has wished Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo good luck in his quest to lead Nigeria. Osinbajo...
Support my lifetime ambition to be President, Tinubu tells APC Senators
Ahead of 2023 Presidential election, the National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate Caucus of...
Senate moves to repeal Proceeds of Crime Bill 2022
The Senate, on Tuesday, moved to re-amend the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Bill, 2022, passed by the chamber on March 9, 2022. The decision to re-amend...
Senators, Reps protest proposed exclusion from APC convention
All Progressives Congress (APC) National Assembly members are protesting their exclusion from the National Convention in the proposed amendment to the...
2023: It’s my lifelong ambition to become President — Tinubu
National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday, said it has been his lifelong ambition to become the President of...
Senate alleges secret recruitment into federal civil service
The Senate on Wednesday raised the alarm that some officials of the federal civil service were engaging in secret recruitment while claiming that there was...
Senate moves against public servants with unexplained sources of wealth
The Senate yesterday considered two critical bills seeking to facilitate the swift prosecution of money launderers and terrorist’ financiers in Nigeria,...
S-South senators kick against moves to include Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi in NDDC
SENATORS from the South-South geo-political zone have kicked against moves by the Senate to include Lagos, Ogun, Bauchi and others that have attained the...
Terrorists named govs, senators, Presidency officials as sponsors during interrogation – Ex-Naval officer
A former Naval officer, Commodore Kunle Olawunmi, retd, said yesterday that Boko Haram terrorists mentioned names of current governors, senators and Aso...
At last, Senate steals INEC’s independence
Last week, this column warned Nigerians to expect our legislators to manoeuver and scuttle the introduction of technology into Nigeria’s voting system....
Electronic results transmission: How the senators voted [Full list]
The Senate ruled out the possibility of having results transmitted electronically when it voted that the Nigerian Communications Commission, with National...
What Buhari told senators, Reps at dinner
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told members of the National Assembly that his regime is ready to use everything within its...
Senate increases fine for illegal importation from N1,000 to N1m
The Senate on Wednesday passed the Firearms Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2021 raising the fine for illegal importation and sale of firearms from N1,000 to N1...
BREAKING: Three PDP Senators defect to APC
Senators Sahabi Alhaji Yau (Zamfara North), Hassan Mohammed Gusau (Zamfara Central), Lawali Hassan Anka (Zamfara West) and Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) on...
Senate passes bill to end discrimination between first degree, HND holders
The Senate has passed a bill that prohibits employers in the country from discriminating between first degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) holders....
Court stops National Assembly members from fixing own salaries
The Federal High Court in Lagos has declared that the National Assembly Service Commission has no power to fix or determine the pay of members of the...
Senate to begin public hearing on Constitution review May 26
The Senate says it plans to hold public hearing across the country on review of 1999 Constitution from May 26 to May 27. Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Chairman,...
Senate moves to make Yabatech, Ilaro Poly universities
Efforts at upgrading the Federal Polytechnics, Ilaro and Yaba College of Technology Yaba to universities of technology as well as grant legal status to the...
