Senate

Hate speech: Senate receives court judgement criminalising bill • AGF silence misleading, urges Lawan to halt all deliberation on the controversial bill Senate Senate Efforts to sell the hate speech bill to Nigerians suffered a…

NDDC budget would not be defended illegally – Senate Minority leader. Following the transmission of the 2019/2020 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate, Senate Minority…

Senate President under fire for declaring all Buhari’s request good for Nigeria Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Friday described the 9th senate under the leadership of Ahmed Lawan as a ‘rubber stamp.” He said this while…

Tambuwal to Senate: No Nigerian governor supports death penalty for hate speech, be warned No Nigerian governor is in support of death penalty for hate speech as being proposed in the Senate under a bill currently being considered by the…

Social media Bill not targeted at new media, says Senate Spokesman By Yemi Itodo Chairman, Senate committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Godiya Akwashiki, has assured that the controversial social media Bill was not to gag…

A Bill to establish the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) on Tuesday scaled first reading in Senate. The Bill titled: “North Central Development Commission (Est, etc) Bill 2019” was sponsored by the Senator representing Niger…

Senate rejects police budget over manipulation President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan The Senate has said the documents supplied by the Nigeria Police Force during the budget defence did not indicate that the NPF had an…

NGO Urges Senate Committee on INEC to Confirm REC Nominees from Bayelsa, Borno & Osun A non-governmental organization has appealed to the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to confirm the nomination…

Senate President, Clerk clash over secret recruitment, severance pay President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, reportedly had a  confrontation with the Clerk of  the National…

Senate leaders move to appease aggrieved members over Job slots The dust recently raised by the sharing formula of the job slots allegedly allocated to the Senate by the board of Federal Internal Revenue Service (FIRS) appears to have…