President Muhammadu Buhari finally met with leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, at the State House in Abuja. The meeting, which was held behind closed-door on Wednesday night, was attended by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President, Bukola Saraki; and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. It was also attended by some lawmakers…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, finally read out names of the ministerial nominees sent to him by President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki unveiled the list to his colleague on the floor during plenary on Tuesday. The list was delivered to the Senate President by Buhari last Wednesday evening on September 30, 2015…
The much awaited ministerial list of President Muhammadu Buhari was finally sent to the Senate on Wednesday evening. This was after the upper chamber had closed for the day and week and to resume next Tuesday, October 6, 2015. The lawmakers would have sat on Thursday, October 1, 2015, but for the public holiday declared…
The Senate has received the list of ministerial nominees from President Muhammadu Buhari, Aproko247 has confirmed. Senate President, Bukola Saraki, confirmed getting the much awaited list from the Chief of Staff to President Buhari, Abba Kyari, and his Special Adviser on National Assembly (Senate) Senator Ita Enang, on behalf of the upper chamber of the…
On Thursday, embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, got a treatment he may never have imagined to get in his hometown in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, where he was once governed for eight years. Saraki was in Ilorin for the Sallah celebration, but when he went to the Muslim prayer ground in the morning…
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, September 17, 2015, met with members of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja. The doctors, led by their president, Kayode Obembe, expressed joy in Saraki’s leadership style in the National Assembly and urged for more support of the lawmakers in growing the…
Sahara Reporters has published a story alleging the Senate President, of using his position then as governor of Kwara State to carry out some fraudulent withdrawals. Also, at least three banks were implicated, including Zenith Bank, which some people has accused of being one of the most fraudulent banks in Nigeria. Some have even alleged…
If disturbing information coming out of Kwara State is anything to go by, then the good people of the state are in for a rough time ahead. It was alleged that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has been giving his ‘master’ and predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki, the sum of N100 million monthly to continue to curry favour…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has played down speculations that it is lobbying members of the Senate to elect Senate President, David Mark, for the same position again when elections into principal offices in the red chamber are held in some days’ time. Rising from its National Working Committee meeting on Thursday, the PDP, through…
Candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the 2011 Kwara State governorship election, Mohammed Dele Belgore, has decamped to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. Belgore announced his defection on Wednesday in Ilorin, the state capital. He stated that he was leaving the All Progressives Congress, APC, because of an alleged injustice meted…