The Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki on Wednesday said the senate will by next week consider a report into nominations for the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) The move could end an impasse that has halted policy decisions slated earlier this year, due to the Senate holding up some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees […]
* Senator may be suspended over alleged plot to destabilise Red Chamber .Sen Adamu: Allegations baseless, says he’s not interested in Saraki’s position Senator representing Nasarawa, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is in a fix as his colleagues on Thursday accused him of plotting to remove the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, destabilize the Upper Chamber and throw […]
Justice Binta Nyako of Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has slated March 13 for hearing in a pre -election suit by senatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq challenging the election of Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The court registrar on March 5 served hearing notice to the respondents, including […]
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, called on other state Houses of Assembly to emulate the Kwara State House of Assembly in putting a stop to wastage of public funds on payment of pensions to office holders. Saraki gave kudos to the state legislature for passing the bill to suspend payment of […]
The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday closed his defence over false assets declaration charge at the resume trial before Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja after calling a witness. Saraki, who is facing an amended three-count charge, consulted one of his lead lawyers from the dock and asked him to close his defence. […]
* He should respect existing structure, Kwara Chairman tells NWC No, it is not true, says Gov. Ahmed Following fears and uncertainty that the alleged return of Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will change the party structure in the state, the Kwara State chapter of the party has […]
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday said contrary to general impression that the National Assembly is a place for Ghana-must-go bags, the legislative arm of government has of late been grappling with paucity of funds. The Senate President said the constricts of funding have slowed down the activities of both the Senate […]
President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, some state governors and other stakeholders have paid tributes to the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), the late Justice Dahiru Musdapher. The President and other stakeholders also extolled the virtues of the late CJN, saying that he […]
Unlike in the past where he and his wife would be physically present, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his wife Oluwatoyin, were conspicuously absent at the prayer session to mark his 55th birthday, at his GRA home in Ilorin Tuesday. Also, absent was the Kwara State Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed, who has always played the role […]
Eze, sir Steve Dike (KSJI), is the Eze Udo 1 of Igando/Ikotun Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Alimosho, Lagos State. In this interview with INIOBONG IWOK, Eze Dike says the Igbos have been marginalised by successive administrations in Nigeria, he also assesses the Buhari administration among other issues? How do you assess the President […]
There is prospect that Nigerians keen on knowing how exactly the National Assembly is run may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Senate President, Bukola Sakari and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dogara Yakubu, to account […]
Olufemi Samuel, Abuja Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, said that the Senate was concerned about growing the private sector’s participation in the nation’s economy. He gave this indication, while meeting with the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington and a team from the […]
Kehinde Akinpelu, Ilorin A Kwara State High Court judge, Justice Sikiru Oyinloye, has excused himself from a contempt application filed by Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against online publisher, Omoyele Sowore and his company, Sahara Reporters. At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, Oyinloye also ordered a halt to further proceedings in a substantive […]
*Lists Akpabio, Adeleke, Omoworare Committee Vice Chairmen The Senate leadership has again reshuffled the Standing Committees of the Upper Chamber in what members described as a strategic move to position the legislative arm for future challenges. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki during plenary announced the reconstitution of some key Committees which saw Senators Andy Ubah, […]
THE lawmaker representing Epe Constituency II, Hon Segun Olulade, has described Dino Melaye as Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki’s, choice for the best Senator of the year an unending drama. Olulade said this in a statement issued in Lagos while reacting to recent pronouncement of the Senator representing Kogi West as best Senator of the […]
Senator Bukola Saraki has secured the support of 65 ofhis colleagues to be President of the Senate, according to one of them, Dino Melaye. However, the President-elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has denied backing any aspirant for the office. Melaye, the Senator-elect for Kogi West, told journalists on Wednesday that support for Saraki is from […]
A socio-cultural group, under the auspices of Swing Nationalities of Nigeria (Umbrella of All Minorities in Nigeria) has called on the 8th National Assembly members to as a matter of equity and justice allow the minority ethnic group in the north central zone to produce the next Senate President so as to give the region […]
As the race for the President and other principal officer s of the Senate and the House of Representatives becomes competitive up, the Pr esident-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that he was willing to work with anybody, who emerged as leader of the Senate. Buhari pointedly declared that he would work with any leader […]
The Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), under the umbrella organization for all socio-cultural associations in Ilorin Emirate yesterday expressed its support for the aspiration of Dr Bukolan Saraki as President of the eighth Senate. Addressing a press conference in Ilorin, yesterday Kwara state, the national President of IEDPU, Alhaji AbdulHamid Adi declared that Saraki […]