Tag: senate
Stop making unmerited statements – Senate tells Kachikwu
by Omoleye Omoruyi In a statement by the Senate’s spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, ...
82 Chibok girls freed, 1.7m UTME candidates | The 5 numbers that mattered this week
82 – The number of Chibok girls released by Boko Haram terrorists after being held hostage for three years. 258 ...
YNaija Analysis: It’s time to make the 2017 budget work
Five months after President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the 2017 budget proposal, it has finally been passed by both chambers of the ...
Shehu Sani ticks all the right boxes | The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators
In a country where many of the lawmakers are clowns, it is always a breath of fresh air when a ...
BREAKING: NASS raises budget by N10bn
by Omoleye Omoruyi The National Assembly has raised its own budget from N115bn to N125bn. Spokesperson of the Senate, Senator ...
BREAKING: Senate passes 2017 budget of N7.44tn
by Omoleye Omoruyi The Senate has passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill estimating N7,441,175,486,758. The Red Chambers passed the budget shortly ...
(BREAKING) #OpenNASS: N’Assembly releases N125bn budget
by Azeez Adeniyi The National Assembly on Thursday published its 2017 budget. The budget showed that the National Assembly has ...
You don’t visit your constituencies | REC nominee tells Senators
by Azeez Adeniyi Ibrahim Abdullahi, one of the nominees for Resident Electoral Commissioners, REC, for Indepedent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ...
Trump-Russia Chronicles: Michael Flynn ordered to hand over papers
by Itunuoluwa Adebo In the wake of James Comey’s dismissal as FBI Director, Michael Flynn has been issued a ...
The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today
These are the top five stories you should monitor today. Controversy over Osinbajo’s status a mere distraction – Lai Mohammed ...
Controversy over Osinbajo’s status a mere distraction – Lai Mohammed
by Azeez Adeniyi Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Wednesday said the controversy generated from theletter written by ...
[The Legislative Blog]: Hon Jibrin briefly schools “mischievous” senators and Nigerians on Buhari’s letter
Get in here, o ye sons and daughters of mischief! Just yesterday, we were here trying to correct the spreading ...
6 Things to know about sacked FBI Director James Comey
by Itunuoluwa Adebo On the recommendation of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, President Trump fired ...
[The Legislative Blog]: Here’s the reason Nigerian senators need to go back to school
We kid you not! It’s shocking the very trivial things senators are currently paying attention to. Earlier today at plenary, Senator ...
The Late 5: These are the stories that drove conversations today
These are the top five stories that drove conversations today. SENATE FIXES THURSDAY FOR PASSAGE OF 2017 BUDGET The Senate ...
US Senate confirms Heather Wilson as President Trump’s Air force secretary
by Itunuoluwa Adebo The U.S. Senate confirmed Heather Wilson, a former Republican member of the House of Representatives, Monday as ...
President Trump to nominate Clean power opponents to federal energy commission
by Itunuoluwa Adebo President Donald Trump plans to nominate a Pennsylvania utility regulator and a top Senate staffer to fill ...
Just In: Senate fixes Thursday for passage of 2017 budget
by Azeez Adeniyi The Senate on Tuesday received the report of its Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance on the ...
Poem: Apparition
by Odimegwu Onwumere We heard he sent a letter to the Senate On January Nineteen Two Thousand and Seventeen. ...
Why we barred some TV stations from plenary – Saraki
by Azeez Adeniyi Senate President Bukola Saraki has cited security reasons for restricting cameramen from gaining entry into the Senate ...
You have nothing to fear if you were not involved in looting spree, EFCC replies Ekweremadu
by Dolapo Adelana The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has advised Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to relax his ...
Senate committee submits final report indicting Babachir Lawal
by Azeez Adeniyi The Senate ad hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East on Wednesday submitted its final report ...
EFCC plans to incriminate me with planted cash and arms | Ekweremadu cries out
by Azeez Adeniyi Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is planning to ...
BREAKING: Senate confirms Ocheni, Hassan as ministers-designate
by Dolapo Adelana The Senate Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Professor Stephen Ocheni (Kogi state) and Suleiman Zarma Hassan (Gombe ...
The Late 5: These are the stories that drove conversations today
These are the top five stories that drove conversations today. EMIR SANUSI RELEASES HIS APRIL SALARY PAYSLIP Emir of Kano, ...
“America needs to shutdown” | Trump is fuming again
by Itunuoluwa Adebo President Trump a.k.a Tweeter-in-chief Tuesday, hit the public with what exactly is running through his mind at ...
Senate begins process to confirm 27 INEC RECs
by Azeez Adeniyi The Senate on Tuesday initiated the process of confirming the appointment of 27 resident electoral commissioners (RECs). The ...
Just In: Buhari meets AGF, NNPC GMD
by Azeez Adeniyi The Attorney-General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami met with President Muhammadu Buhari ...
Opinion: The hurdles of Legislative process
by Demola Adeyeye One final step before a law passed by the Legislature becomes Law is for it to scale ...
[The Legislative Blog]: Saraki shuts down claims he betrayed the APC with a perfect analogy
“No, you can’t put that blame on me” was essentially the message Senate President Bukola Saraki was trying to pass ...
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