The Senate on a Tuesday considered a bill seeking to amend the 35-year old Bank Employees Declaration of Assets (BEDA) Act 1986. “The Bill For An Act To Amend The Bank Employees (Declaration of Assets) Act CAP B1 Laws of The Federation 2010 And For Other Related Matters 2022 (SB. 900)” was sponsored by Senator…
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has given a one-week ultimatum to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Government yet to appear before relevant Committees to defend their budget proposal for 2022, to do so or risk zero allocation in the coming year. Lawan gave the ultimatum in an announcement moments before the upper chamber adjourned…
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan says the National Assembly will insist that personnel of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) involved in alleged abuses are prosecuted and sanctioned. The Senate leader re-assured the youths that the National Assembly will collaborate with the Executive to ensure justice for victims of misconduct and rights abuses by personnel…
***Says Nigeria Defeated Boko Haram Without US Support Elder statesman and former Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Ameh Ebute, has replied the US Congressman, Tom Marino, over his controversial secret letter to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, demanding an unreserved apology to the country. The distinguished in his letter…
The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State capital, has upheld the victory of former Senate President, David Mark, in the senatorial district poll held in March 2015. The Tribunal struck out a petition filed by Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, challenging the victory of Mark. Mark contested the election…
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 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…
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…