Public Accounts Committee of the Nigeria Senate has summoned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to...
Lawmakers during plenary at the Senate chamber in Abuja February 12, 2020. Photo: [email protected] A bill to amend the Police Act 2004 which prescribes...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Accountant General of the Federation on Thursday when they appeared before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts could...
The Senate has commenced the process of establishing a new educational institution in Gombe State, with a view to boosting technology in the Northern part of...
Senate president Ahmed Lawan The senate president, Ahmed Lawan has advocated for non performers in government sacked while stressing that there is the need to run...
The United States Senate backed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran, rebuking the president after a strike against...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the leadership of the National Assembly will no longer tolerate the unnecessary killing of Nigerians by criminals...
Washington, DC – The United States Senate is prepared to rebuke President Donald Trump over escalating military tensions with Iran following the US killing of Iranian...
The Senate on Thursday called for the mainstreaming of the National Park Service into the national security architecture in line with the resolution of 12th National...
Against the position of Nigeria’s lawmakers to sack all the Service Chiefs over insecurity, Spokesman, of the Senate, Goddiya Akwasiki has explained that President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Senate has urged military authorities to establish a base in Auno following an attack on Sunday which led to the death of many travellers,...
Senate Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has sternly warned the NDDC board to stick to government’s policy thrust in their budget implementation. Chairman of...
The Senate Committee on Works led by Senator Adamu Aliero on Wednesday inspected some Federal Government road projects in Lagos State. The committee during the inspection...
Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday, expressed disappointment over the manner its invitations to Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government were usually treated. Chairman of the...
The Senate on Tuesday adjourned plenary in honour of its member, Senator Ignatius Longjan, who represented Plateau South in the red chamber GCFRNG reported that Senator...
Lawmakers at the Senate House of Assembly on Tuesday adjourned plenary to honour a member, Senator Ignatius Longjan. Senator Longjan who represented Plateau South Senatorial...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commiserated with the family of Senator Ignatius Longjan who died at a Turkish hospital in Abuja on Sunday. Lawan...
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President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan said on Thursday that there was the urgent need to revisit the privatisation of the power sector. Speaking yesterday...
President of the Nigeria Senate, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan on Thursday in Abuja constituted a 57-man Constitution Review Committee. He charged members of the committee to...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Thursday sacked the National Economic Council (NEC) over the need to revisit the privatisation of the power sector. NEC...
U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday, hailed his supporters as he celebrated his impeachment acquittal in the Senate. Democrats had impeached Trump at the House after...
….calls on Health Ministry to investigate disease, as death toll hits 15, infected persons 104 The Senate has raised alarm over the outbreak of a strange...
The Senate, on Thursday, disclosed that following the outbreak of Coronavirus in China and a few other countries, that face-masks have become the most sought after...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, inaugurated a 56-member Constitution Review Committee. The committee is headed by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and...
Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on Thursday, took charge of plenary for the first time in seven months. He rose to occupy the seat...
US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has condemned the acquittal of President Donald Trump by the Senate. Democrats had alleged he withheld military aid to Ukraine and...
Hillary Clinton, 2016 US Democratic Party presidential nominee has blamed Republican senators for the acquittal of American President Donald Trump by the country’s Senate. On Wednesday,...
The Coalition for Nigeria has rejected the inclusion of the lawmaker representing Abia-South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, in the Senate’s adhoc committee on security challenges, describing it as...
The President of the United States Donald Trump has been acquitted of all charges by the US senate over the charges of obstruction of congress and...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of nominees to serve as Chairman and Members of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC). The confirmation of the...
US President, Donal Trump is off the impeachement hook. US Senators on Wednesday voted that he was not guilty of abuse of power. The vote was...
The United States Senate on Wednesday found President Donald Trump not guilty of abusing his powers, as had been charged by the House of Representatives. The...
Washington, DC – US President Donald Trump’s Republican allies in a sharply divided United States Senate on Wednesday are poised to acquit the president on two...
The Senate on Tuesday considered a bill seeking to establish a National Agency for the Research and Management of Persons with Special Needs. The bill which...
The Senate, on Wednesday, demanded for the rehabilitation of the razed communities involved in communal clashes in Bassa Local government Area of Kogi State. GCFRNG gathered...
Senate on Wednesday issued two weeks deadline to Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDA, to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s loan request before the National Assembly. GCFRNG learnt...
The Senate has admitted the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu into the chamber to brief lawmakers on the nation’s security challenges. The session...
United States senators largely cleaved neatly to party lines on Tuesday as they gave their justifications for voting to acquit or convict the president on the articles...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, with other senators during the inauguration of the Senate ad-hoc committee on Nigerian Security Challenges in Abuja on February 4, 2020....
The Senate, on Tuesday, okayed the sum of N238,149,325,832.70 for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for 2020 fiscal budget. This approval was sequel to an adoption...
The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has said the increasing conversations around hate speech, fake news and Media regulation was a reality of...
The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has said the increasing conversations around hate speech, fake news and Media regulation was a reality of...
After Mrs Maryam Sanda On Monday, January 27, 2020, was sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband through multiple stab wounds in November of...
Danjuma Goje Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation says the N25 billion fraud case against Danjuma Goje, senator representing Gombe central, was withdrawn because the federal...
File photo The Senate on Thursday resolved to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the sum of $396 million expended on Turn-Around...
Washington, DC – The United States Senate is gearing up for a climactic vote on Friday that could bring a swift end to the impeachment trial...
Collins Nweze THE Senate has on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Dr. Kingsley Obiora as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)....
The Senate on Thursday resolved to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the sum of $396 million expended on Turn-Around Maintenance of refineries in...
The Senate on Thursday confirmed nominees appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to serve on the board of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). The nominees...
The Senate on Thursday, resolved to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the sum of $396 million expended on Turn-Around Maintenance of refineries in...
Elder statesman and former President of the Senate, Senator Ameh Ebute, has called on Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to engage other politicians, technocrats as well as...
Nigeria Senate on Thursday asked the Federal government not to lower its guard against the dreaded Coronavirus, saying that prevention was better than cure. Moving the...
The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, yesterday screened Dr. Kingsley Obiora for the position of Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of...
A cross-section of Nigerians have reacted to calls by the Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe demanding the President’s resignation over the insecurity challenges facing the country....
By Collins Nweze The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions has screened Kingsley Obiora for the position of Deputy Governor of the Central...
There was a heavy criticism of government policy on national security occasioned by the motion sponsored by Nigeria’s Senate leader, Yahaya Abdullahi on Wednesday. The motion...
The Senate on Wednesday condemned the abduction and killings of Nigerian citizens from Plateau State by Boko Haram. It also warned that the anti-Plateau Hate narrative...
The Senate has summoned Mr Mohammed Adamu the Inspector-General of Police. This was part of resolutions reached during plenary on Wednesday, January 29. IGP Adamu...
Following the inability of the federal government to safeguard the lives and property of Nigerians since 2015, the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has called on...
The Senate under the leadership of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday passed a vote of no-confidence on the Military, police and other security structures in...
Senate on Wednesday moved to consider the confirmation of Dr. Isitua Obiora as the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Other appointees are...
The Nigerian Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a national security emergency. This was part of resolutions reached during plenary on Wednesday, January...
The Senate on Tuesday ordered three premier Universities in Nigeria to absorb students of Plateau State origin who are currently stranded at the University of Maiduguri....
The Senate on Wednesday condemned the abduction and killings of Nigerian citizens from Plateau State by Boko Haram. This was even as the upper chamber warned...
Minority leader the Nigeria Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on Wednesday called for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the All Progressives Congress has failed...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has reassured Nigerians that the ninth National Assembly will not pass any law to the detriment of the country. Lawan...
…Seeks introduction of community policing President of the the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, has said the Ninth Senate will summon the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar...
President Muhammadu Buhari has officially disbanded the Niger Delta Development Commission Board which the Senate had earlier confirmed awaiting inauguration. The President had sent the names...
Nigeria Senate would henceforth subject reports of oversight functions, which were carried out by the Chairmen of Committees to legislative debate on the floor of Senate...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the senate to confirm Kingsley Obiora as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Buhari also wants the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that a new Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be constituted and sent to the National Assembly...
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan. Photo: [email protected] The President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, has raised an alarm over the...
The Senate Committee Chairman on Customs, Excise and Tariff, Senator Francis Alimikhena, has the report that he was among those plotting to remove Ahmed Lawan as...
The Senate on Sunday said that the report of the Ad hoc Committee that probed alleged snatching of the Mace is dead. Chairman, Senate Committee on...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, for the umpteenth time on Friday, dismissed the insinuation that the ninth National Assembly is a rubber stamp Legislature. Lawan...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Friday, dismissed the insinuation that the ninth National Assembly was a rubber-stamp legislature. Lawan said no amount of blackmail...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Clerk of the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate, from...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Clerk of the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate, from...
U.S. Senate began the first substantive day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday with partisan rancour over how the trial will proceed....
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected three separate motions proposed by the Democrats to acquire documents and evidence in the impeachment trial against President Donald...
After more than 12 hours of debate and several failed Democratic bids for amendments calling for documents and witnesses, the US Senate approved a resolution along party...
President Donald Trump is the third president in United States history to face an impeachment trial in the Senate, and only the second in the last...
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has revealed that he has appealed against the judgement of a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Bwari, which sacked him from the Senate. Ifeanyi...
By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Kubwa, Abuja, has rejected the request by Ifenayi Ubah, representing Anambra...
Poland’s senate on Friday rejected a controversial draft law aimed at punishing judges who question government-backed judicial reforms that the European Union says are out of...
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra South) has reacted to his sack by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday for certificate forgery. Senator Ifeanyi Ubah...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Kubwa, on Friday, declined to set-aside its judgement that nullified the election of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah...
100 lawmakers of the US Senate were sworn in on Thursday as jurors for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. BBC reports that Chief Justice...
The United States Congress opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Thursday, with House Democrats reading the formal charges from the well of the...
The US House of Representatives has on Wednesday submitted the articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress to...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday, said Nigeria has made significant progress over the last twenty years since the country’s return to democracy in...
Seven impeachment managers who will move impeachment articles to the senate for US President Donald Trump’s trail have been revealed by the speaker of US House...
The articles of impeachment charging US President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress were delivered to the Senate on Wednesday, setting in...
The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday formally handed off two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for a trial. The...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condemned the gun attack in Kaduna on the convoy of the Emir of Potiskum, Yobe State, Alhaji...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condemned the gun attack in Kaduna on the convoy of the Emir of Potiskum, Yobe State, Alhaji Umaru Bubaram....
Washington, DC – The United States House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for...
US Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republican-controlled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war...
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