A mild drama occurred on the floor of the Senate, on Tuesday, when a point of order was raised, that the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki was the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Senate, upon resumption Read more
The Senate is proposing the return of tolls on federal roads and the setting aside of 0.5 per cent of transport fares paid by mass transit passengers for inter-state trips to generate funds for the rehabilitation and maintenance of roads Read more
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday passed an executive bill seeking mutual assistance in criminal matters between Nigeria and foreign states. The bill, Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters between Nigeria and other Foreign States, 2017 (SB. 224) was read for the Read more
The Nigerian Senate Thursday passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, seventeen years after it was first introduced to the National Assembly. The bill seeks to reform the country’s oil and gas industry, which has been bogged down by decades of Read more
The 2017 budget was finally passed today, and the highlight of the budget is that the summary of the Proposed 2017 Budget of the Nigerian National Assembly was today made public by the Bukola Saraki led Senate. The budget of Read more
The Nigerian senate Thursday passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill, more than four months after it was submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari presented the budget documents to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 14, 2016. Read more
National Assembly may pass N7.441 trillion Appropriation Bill tomorrow The Senate yesterday said it would begin clause-by-clause consideration of the 2017 Appropriation Bill and may pass it tomorrow. This decision followed the submission of the report on the budget bill Read more
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed receipt of President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter informing it of his trip to the United Kingdom on a “medical follow-up’’. President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, read the letter, dated May 5, 2017, at plenary Read more
Mr. Goje, a former governor of Gombe State, had told the Senate on Wednesday that police officers took away cash, a laptop and 18 documents on the budget proposal being worked on by his committee during the raid on his Read more
The three-term Senator currently represents Osun West Senatorial district having won the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015. Adeleke died Sunday at Bikets Hospital in Oshogbo, the Osun state capital, after suffering a heart Read more