The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has condoled with the families of victims of the Sept. 23, fuel tanker explosion on the federal highway in Lokoja. GCFRNG...
A section of the multi-million naira Trauma Centre Project at the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, still under construction. The Senate Committee on Health has promised...
The Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Suleimanu Adamu has tasked Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime to come up with new strategy that will curtail and...
The Senate Committee on Local Content on Wednesday began pre-hearing on the proposed amendment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Bill (2020). In...
National Assembly The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Committee (INEC) has warned against violence in the forthcoming Governorship election in Edo State. Citizens and residents...
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. President of the Senate,...
The US Senate on Thursday killed a Republican bill that would have provided about $300bn in new coronavirus aid, as Democrats seeking far more funding prevented...
The Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has extended the submission of memoranda by two weeks. A statement from the Office of...
A Bolivian court has blocked deposed former President Evo Morales from seeking a seat in the Chamber of Senators in the country’s October elections, arguing that...
Former Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly during the 4th Assembly, Rt. Hon. George Daika has been declared winner of the Peoples Democratic Party...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday announced Emmanuel Okewulonu as the winner of its ticket for Imo North Senatorial District. The by-election will be held...
Prof. Nora Daduut of the Department of French, University of Jos has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the Plateau South...
Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, such as the Centre for Liberty, Tap Initiative, and Global Rights, have kicked against the alleged plan by the 9th Senate to...
Chief ‘Kunle Uthman Legislatures in modern states everywhere, pass laws, determine the ways of raising and spending public revenues, discuss matters of public importance...
The Senate on Tuesday insisted that federal lawmakers did not receive any palliative from the Nigerian Delta Development Commission, NDDC. It was reacting to an allegation...
Massachusetts residents are set to decide between a longtime progressive senator and a Kennedy scion in one of the last primary votes of the election cycle. ...
The Senate has challenged the Executive Director (Projects) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Cairo Ojuogboh, to provide evidence to back up his claim that...
The Senate has said no senator received the sum of N20 million as COVID-19 palliative. The Senate said this in a swift reaction to a statement...
Gashu’a, the headquarters of Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State and the birthplace of the incumbent Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan is in recent time...
The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Uzor Orji Kalu, on Monday, said that he would serve as Nigeria’s President if given the opportunity by the electorate. The...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has asked the Senate to help drive the recovery of N5 trillion yet to be recovered from debtors....
Six Senators’ seat at the National Assembly remained Vacant. Tantamount that six senatorial districts in the country are currently not being represented in the upper chamber....
The Senate Committee on Special Duties, has called for more funds for the North East Development Commission (NEDC) for the overall development of the Northeast region....
By Sanni Onogu, Abuja Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning has directed the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, to investigate the payment...
Mr Letep Dabang, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Plateau, says he is confident of the party’s success in the Plateau South Senatorial by-election...
The Nigerian Television Authority has denied reports that its management staff have been asked to step aside by the Senate Committee on Finance. The government-owned broadcast...
Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to ensure remittance of one per cent from the Federation Account into the coffers of the National Agency for...
The Senate joint committee on finance and national planning, on Tuesday, queried the Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Lamido Yuguda, for spending N10.3 billion...
From Sanni Onogu, Abuja THE Senate yesterday urged the Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Lamido Yuguda to remit N300million into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF)...
The Nigerian Senate, Tuesday, urged the Federal Government of Nigeria to ensure remittance of 1 per cent into the account of National Agency for Science and...
The Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning continued its hearing on the 2021-2023 MTEF-FSP with a stunning revelation that the NTA/Startimes management wiring over...
The Senate on Monday queried the management of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) over what it called 11 years non-profitable venture with StarTimes StarTimes is a...
The immediate past governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake D.ickson has announced that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made him the sole candidate for the Bayelsa...
The Senate on Monday queried the management of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) over what it called 11 years non-profitable venture with StarTimes StarTimes is a...
Professor Ogundipe was sacked by the University of Lagos’ Governing Council on August 12, 2020. The Senate of the University of Lagos has filed a...
The Senate of the University of Lagos State (UNILAG) on Monday filed an application at the National Industrial Court to discontinue a suit challenging the removal...
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege addresses reporters in Abuja on July 15, 2019. Deputy Senate President Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is warning the Federal Government to shelve alleged...
UNILAG’s Acting VC, Professor Folasade Ogunsola Senate members of the University of Lagos on Monday elected Professor Folasade Ogunsola as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the...
By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie Source
By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has gathered at the Main Auditorium on Monday to select an Acting Vice-Chancellor despite the...
Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has accused Ghana’ of targeting Nigerians. He said the Ghanian government was carrying out xenophobic acts against citizens of its long-time...
Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, Friday visited Nigerian philanthropist and Chairman of Stanel Group, Dr. Stanley Uzochukwu in his Abuja residence. Receiving the former Abia...
By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commended the President and Visitor to the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Muhammadu Buhari, for recognising...
US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Friday told senators that the Postal Service has not changed the way it handles election mail as he sought to assure...
Officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) were on Friday queried by the Senate on Friday for remitting only N44.5 billion into the Consolidated Revenue...
Officials of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) were on Friday queried by the Senate on Friday for remitting only N44. 5 billion into the Consolidated Revenue...
The Nigerian Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning which is currently discussing 2021-2023 MTEF-FSP have discovered financial fraud running into billions of naira in...
Senate Committee on Diaspora, Non-Governmental Organisations and Civil Societies has tasked the Nigerians Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) to be more innovative in its approach to its functions....
The Senate and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday agreed that excise should be paid on carbonated drinks in the country. President of the Senate,...
The Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) says it has uncovered an evil plot by the opposition and other desperate elements to destabilise the administration of President...
From Sanni Onogu, Abuja The Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning, yesterday threatened not to approve the budgets of Federal Government’s agencies whose ...
The United States Senate intelligence committee concluded that the Kremlin launched an aggressive effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential contest on behalf of Donald Trump...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, rejoices with former President Ibrahim Babangida on the occasion of his 79th birthday on 17th August, 2020. Lawan says the...
The Senate has said it will persuade the President Muhammadu Buhari, to sack the military chiefs, comprising the Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Air Staff,...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) Senate and four unions have opposed the removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor. They labeled the sack and the...
From Sanni Onogu, Abuja The Senate Committee on Finance will begin the consideration of the 2020-2023 Medium Term Expenditure and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP)...
By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as well as the four workers unions of the institution have called on the Federal...
Following the sudden removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor by the Governing Council in Abuja on Wednesday, Security has been tightened around the Senate...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has felicitated with the Nigerian Youth on the occasion of the International Youth Day 2020. Lawan noted the importance of...
Egyptians are heading to the polls to choose members of a newly formed Senate. Voting begins on Tuesday, with results due on August 19. Of the...
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan has sponsored the weddings of 300 couples in Yobe North Senatorial District. Ezrel Tabiowo, his Special Assistant on Media,...
In a bid to help people who cannot shoulder the cost of a wedding, the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has sponsored the wedding of 100 less-privileged...
The Senate has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for assenting to the Companies and Allied Matters Bill passed by the National Assembly. The Senate Spokesman, Senator Ajibola...
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, congratulates Olumide Akpata on his election as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Lawan also congratulates the...
A Nigerian, Mr Gabe Okoye, is on the ballot in a forthcoming Democratic Party’s senatorial primary runoff election in the U.S. Okoye, who hails from Enugwu-Aguleri,...
The Senate said it had received fresh fraud allegations against the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission. The upper chamber said the new financial infractions...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has sent his condolences to the family, friends and political associates of Pa Ayorinde Fasanmi, the leader of Yoruba socio-cultural...
Italy’s Senate lifted the immunity of former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday, opening the way for a trial of the right-wing leader on charges of...
The Senate committee on finance has summoned the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, over the funding status of three federal government legacy road projects estimated to...
GCFRNG: Democrats in the United States Senate released on Tuesday a scathing review on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s tenure at the State Department. The 46-page...
The Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, along with the...
GCFRNG: The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Finance, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, and the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, over the funding...
A former staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria plc (PHCN), Engr. Mohammed Ahmadu Bello has given the leadership of Nigeria senate a seven day ultimatum...
United States President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the Senate are set to unveil a $1 trillion US coronavirus relief bill on Monday that includes reduced...
Senator representing Oyo Central at the National Assembly, Oloye Teslim Folarin, on Sunday revealed the rationale behind the invitation of the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi...
Political leaders from Ikorodu and Epe divisions in Lagos State have flagged off campaigns to produce the candidate who will fill the Lagos East Senatorial seat,...
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has given assurance that the Senate will ensure that every...
“I want to assure you that the Senate will always stand by National interest” Lawan told a delegation of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Igbo socia-cultural association...
The Senate has passed a bill for an Act to repeal the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act of 2004. The Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed...
The Senate on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)...
Seeks Refund of N4.923bn to agency’s coffers Says agency should revert to SGF for supervision The Senate on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack...
A file photo of lawmakers in the Senate. The Senate ad hoc committee investigating financial recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Thursday...
From Nduka Chiejina, Abuja (Assistant Editor) and Collins Nweze The Senate yesterday, passed the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) and gave the Central...
Senate Committee investigating the alleged financial recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has recommended the dissolution of the agency’s Interim Management Committee. In a...
The Senate on Wednesday, called for a review of the Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) between the Federal Government and Azura Power Plant, saying the agreement was...
The APC Youth Solidarity Network APC-YSF, on Wednesday, berated the Senate for asking the current Service Chiefs to resign due to the spate of insecurity in...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday called for adequate funding of Nigerian embassies abroad. Lawan who spoke after the Senate confirmed 40 non-career and one career...
Following a satisfactory report by the Chairman of Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa, Senate on Wednesday confirmed 39 out 41 ambassadorial nominees...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has charged the Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to engage relevant stakeholders with a view to reforming Nigeria’s...
Nigerians in diaspora has said the senate must rise above politics and what it termed parochial interest on the war against terrorism. The United Kingdom, UK,...
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. President of the Senate,...
Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, CAGG, has told the presidency that the Senate spoke for all Nigerians when it called for...
Dr Ahmad Lawan, the Senate President, on Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the 2021 budget is sent to the National Assembly before the...
The Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE) has expressed disappointment with the Senate over its call for the sack of the Service Chiefs in the middle...
The Coalition Against Terrorism and Extremism (CATE) has faulted the Tuesday’s call by the National Assembly for the sack or resignation of the Service Chiefs. The...
The Senate, on Tuesday officially confirmed Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta for reappointment as the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian...
The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to give legal backing to the establishment of the Nigerian Army University, Biu, Borno State. The passage of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate to seek approval of the 2021 – 2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal...
A file photo of lawmakers in the Senate. The Senate has passed a bill to give legal backing to the establishment of the Nigerian Army...
The Presidency has replied the Nigerian senate request for the service chiefs to step aside, stating that only President Buhari can sack them. GCFRNG recalls that...
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