The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, said on Wednesday that over 400 out of 541 Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies are to be scrapped as recommended by Stephen Orosanye-led Presidential Committee on agencies’ rationalisation. Olamilekan, who made the declaration on the second day of the ongoing interface between the
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The Senate again has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack service chiefs as a result of their failure to secure Nigerians. The Senate decision, which is the third it would pass this year, followed a motion by Senator Kashim Shettima on the recent killing of 34 rice farmers in Borno State by the Boko Haram
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The Nigerian Senate has asked State House officials to restrain President Muhammadu Buhari, from foreign trips for medical treatment in order to ensure the State House clinic becomes functional as soon as possible. The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs gave the warning on Thursday, when the State House Permanent Secretary, Tijani Umar,
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The Nigerian Senate has urged the Federal Government to hasting the implementation of the demands of #EndSARS protesters. The Spokesperson for the Senate, Senator Ajibola Basiru, disclosed this on Friday night. The Senate made the call following the approval of the five-point demands of the protesters by the Presidential Panel on the Reform of the
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The Senate is the highest and most respected lawmaking body anywhere in the world. Interestingly, Nigeria is not an exception. Though it has become a retirement home for tired former governors who can barely walk without support and former ministers who are battling to scare off corruption probes, it is notwithstanding a part of necessary arm
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The Nigerian Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $5,513,000,000 external loan request. The DAILY VENDOR learnt that the Senate gave the approval on Tuesday. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, while reading the letter which accompanied the loan request last week Thursday, asked the Committee on local and foreign debts to work on the document. According
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Chief Osita Chidoka, Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Nigerian Senate to reject the nomination of a candidate from Northern states of Kwara and Taraba as chairman, secretary of Federal Character Commission (FCC) respectively. Chidoka said the nomination violated Section 4 of the subsidiary legislation which states that the distribution of
Read moreA bill at the Nigerian Senate is seeking to strip presidents and vice presidents of immunity in criminal matters during their stay in office. The bill also suggested the same thing for governors and their deputies. The bill provides for qualification of the immunity clause to exclude immunity for public officers referred to in Section
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The Senate, on Thursday, passed for second reading, a constitution amendment bill which prescribes Higher National Diploma or its equivalent as the educational qualification required for anyone seeking to contest the office of the Nigerian President or state governors. The bill sponsored by a member of the Peoples Democratic Party from Plateau State, Senator Isfifanus
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President Muhammadu Buhari and leadership of the National Assembly (NASS) on Monday in Abuja expressed serious concern over security challenges facing the country and agreed to do all they could to tackle the problems. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, confirmed this development to State House correspondents at the end of a closed door meeting between
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Amidst public outcry against the increasing cost of fuel subsidy to the economy, the Senate has disclosed that, until the nation can boast of fully functional refineries, the subsidy would not be removed. The disclosure is in sharp contrast to the upper chamber’s earlier position, when in 2019 it condemned the lack of transparency in
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The Senate has resolved to investigate the poor state of the nation’s refineries, lamenting that in spite of a whopping $25 billion spent on their turn around maintenance (TAM) in the last 25 years, they still remain moribund. A resolution to investigate the poor state of the refineries followed a motion brought before the Senate
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Senators in Nigeria have asked President Muhammadu, to sack the country’s service chiefs over the growing security problems facing the country. This was contained in a statement detailing the resolution of the senators after the upper chamber’s plenary on Wednesday. Earlier, the House of Representatives had asked the service chiefs to resign or be sacked
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On Tuesday dated the 17th day of December 2019, the Senate during the plenary session directed its Committees on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Investment to liaise with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to underscore the status of over 600 Nigerian shops and businesses in Ghana allegedly shut down by the authorities in that country. Speaking
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