Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, over alleged failure to probe, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies allegations that N4.4bn of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen. SERAP
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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has advised the Igbo in the South-East to seize the opportunity provided by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime to gravitate to the centre of the Nigerian politics. Lawan gave this advice in a statement by his Media Office on Sunday during the thanksgiving/interdenominational service held
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President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has on Wednesday, frustrated the move to push lawmakers to adjourn sitting as the plenary session was going on.Soon after the commencement of business of the day, Senator George Sekibo, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers East cited Order 10 of the Senate Standing Rules as amended on the
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The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly. The President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, walked into the venue of the meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at 3.04pm. Though, the agenda of the closed-door meeting has not
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The Nigerian Senate will tomorrow (Wednesday) deliberate extensively on the security challenges confronting the country. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, stated this on Tuesday immediately after a one-hour closed session with his colleagues. Details later..
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The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday reviewed the current security architecture of the country and demanded an urgent restructuring to make a way for intervention from other tiers of government. Lawan, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, also welcomed the recent regional and states initiatives to tackle the unfortunate security challenges
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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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