Tag: Nigerian senate
Nigerian senate prescribes stiff penalties for human traffickers
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting trafficking in persons which stipulated stiffer penalties for offenders. The Trafficking in…
Senators Condemn Immigration Job Deaths
Sola Adeola/Abuja The Nigerian Senate resumed Tuesday after a week recess that enabled the senators attend to budget matters, and…
Nigeria’s defecting senators slip through Mark’s blockade
Proceedings were held up in the Senate for about one hour on Tuesday as five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senators…
52 senators warn on declaring defectors’ seats vacant
Fifty-two members of the Nigeria Senate, nearly half of its membership of 109, have written to the leadership of the…
Rivers Crisis: Senate summons IG
After its proceeding was held up for some minutes as a result of rowdiness among members, the Senate agreed to…
Senator Anyanwu canvasses life jail for paedophiles, rapists
The Sexual Offences Bill, which prescribes life imprisonment for paedophiles, on Wednesday in Abuja passed through second reading at the…
Nigerian senators extend state of emergency
Nigerian Senators on Thursday approved a request by President Goodluck Jonathan to prolong emergency rule in the restive northeast by…
Senator alleges N500b missing in SURE-P fund
A member of the Nigerian Senate Ad hoc Committee on the Subsidy Re-investment Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Senator Kabiru Marafa has…
NDDC presents N315.8bn budget for 2014 to Senate
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Tuesday in Abuja presented a budget of N315.8 billion for 2014 to the…
Senate Committee threatens SURE-P of zero allocation
The Senate Ad hoc Committee on SURE-P on Wednesday in Abuja threatened zero appropriation for the programme if funds already…
Nigerian Senate to resume public hearing on PIB
The Nigerian Senate says it will resume another round of public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) on 9…
Senate confirms new envoys, APC gets formal introduction
The Senate at its resumption today confirmed the nomination of eight ambassadorial nominees which followed consideration of the report of…
Ekweremadu: Senate did not approve early marriage
The chairman, of the Nigerian Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has insisted that…
Nigeria’s Senate denies approving marriage of minors
Senator Akin Odunsi (ACN-Ogun) said on Monday in Abuja that the the Nigerian Senate did not at any time vote…
Jonathan seeks Senate confirmation of new board for EFCC
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday forwarded a request for the Senate to confirm the appointment of a new secretary and…
The Pension Mess
Despite the sack of Abdulrasheed Maina-led Pension Reform Task Team, the mess and corruption associated with the administration of pension…
Jonathan wants absconded pension chief sanctioned
President Goodluck Jonathan has asked Nigeria’s top bureaucrat, the Head of Service, to commence “disciplinary action against Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina,…
Senator Mark: Why Keshi wanted to quit
The Senate on Tuesday in Abuja passed a vote of confidence on Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, the team’s…
Ndoma-Egba: Corruption Killed Ajaokuta Steel Company
Leader of the Nigerian Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has declared that the Ajaokuta Steel Company has remained a victim of the…
Proposed N4b First Ladies’ Mission House
The Federal Capital Territory’s N253 billion Appropriation Bill for the 2013 fiscal year recently debated by the Nigerian Senate is…
Jonathan sends two nominees for ministership
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded two ministerial nominees to the senate for confirmation.The nominees are Kabiru Turaki from Kebbi…
Pension boss snubs Nigerian senate
The Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Wednesday failed to…
Death penalty for Nigerian terrorists
The Nigerian Senate on Friday said it adopted the death penalty as punishment for acts of terrorism due to Nigeria’s…
Senator Boroffice architect of his fate, says Mark
The Senate President, David Mark, on Thursday in Abuja distanced himself from the alleged plot to remove Senator Robert Boroffice…
Senate Seeks more power for Auditor-General
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja A Bill for the establishment of the Office of the Auditor-General for the federation, Audit service Commission, Additional…
Senators Differ on the Nigeria’s 52nd Anniversary.
DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja For Nigeria to be saved from her numerous challenges and take her rightful place among the committee of…
Senate passes bill on labour welfare
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday passed a bill seeking to cater for the safety, health and welfare of Nigerian workers.…
Senators Ask Jonathan To Appeal ICJ Judgment On Bakassi
Members of the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday morning asked the Federal Government to urgently file an appeal against the judgment…
Flood: Senators urge Jonathan send special budget
With no end in sight to the ravaging flood which has rendered thousands homeless in at least 20 States across…
Ojudu: The true story of Ekiti ACN Senatorial Primary
Senator Babafemi Ojudu representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the Nigerian Senate, has said that he feels constrained to set the…