Tag: Senator Bukola Saraki
Saraki says CCT chairman is corrupt, wants him to step down
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja In a renewed bid to stall his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola…
Saraki’s trial resumes on convivial note as Oluyede bows to Justice Umar
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki on 13-count charge of false assets declaration before the Code of…
Buhari will approve 2016 Budget in a matter of days, says Saraki
Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki has assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari will assent to the 2016 budget in a…
2016 Budget: NASS has resolved differences with Presidency – Saraki
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, says all the grey areas in the 2016 Budget have been resolved. Saraki…
PICTURES: Buhari finally meets with Saraki, Dogara, others
President Muhammadu Buhari accompanied by the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Chief of Staff Malam Abba Kyari, Minister of National…
NASS Commission to Saraki: Sani-Omolori will remain as clerk
The National Assembly Service Commission says there is no basis for withdrawing the appointment of the newly appointed acting Clerk…
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Saraki stops Appeal Court move to stall CCT trial
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Monday asked the Court of Appeal to strike out the application…
Saraki: Why I am jumping from court to court
Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has decided to explain to Nigerians why he has been “jumping” from one courtroom to another…
PENDULUM: A Candid Response from the Senate President
My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My Candid Letter to Saraki.”…
I’m prosecuted for objecting a Muslim-Muslim ticket – Saraki
Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki has opened the lid on why he is being prosecuted by some persons in the…
I never struck a deal with PDP to be senate president, says Saraki
Bukola Saraki has explained how he emerged the senate president of the 8th assembly dismissing talks that he struck a…
Why I fell out with President Jonathan – Saraki
Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki has explained why he had problems with the country’s immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan. Saraki…
The Senate, CCT and the politics of Saraki’s trial by Reuben Abati
By Reuben Abati The present Senate serving the Nigerian people runs the risk of being remembered as the worst since…
Saraki’s lawyer would have been jailed – CCT Chairman
But for the intervention of other lawyers in court, Mr Danladi Umar, the Chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal affirmed…
More trouble for Saraki as new charges are filed against him
The romance between Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) does not look like one…
Tension at CCT as Justice Umar threatens to jail Saraki’s lawyer
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Tempers flared at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CTC on Thursday morning as the Chairman of the Tribunal,…
Again, CCT rejects Saraki’s request for adjournment
Justice Danladi Umar has again refused a strong request for adjournment in the criminal trial of Bukola Saraki, the president…
Senate to probe CCT chairman, says he’s corrupt
In what could simply be described as corruption fighting back, Nigerian senators have decided to wage a war against the…
My trial will not disturb Senate proceedings – Saraki
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal will…
Saraki never said he owns farms, orchards or factories
The prosecution rounded off its examination in chief of Micheal Wetkas, the first prosecution counsel in the trial of Senate…
Saraki’s trial should not stop Senate from sitting – CCT
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Code of Conduct Tribunal insisted on Monday that there was no need to adjourn proceedings to enable…
Saraki bought 3, instead of one FG property allowed by an individual – Witness
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Senate President Bukola Saraki acquired three Federal Government houses using names of different companies and accounts against the…
ANALYSIS: Quran, Bible, Moses and Pharaoh make incursion into Saraki’s trial
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki on 13-count charge of false assets declaration assumed a religious toga…
Saraki’s CCT trial adjourned till Tuesday
The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki has been adjourned till 12 noon Tuesday, 19 April at the request of…
More evidences against Saraki accepted by CCT
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Code of Conduct Tribunal has accepted more evidences against Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki in the ongoing…
CCT Trial: Saraki back in court as trial is delayed
The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki on 13 count charges of false assets declaration before the Code of Conduct…
Nigerians turn against Saraki saying #NotOurSenatePresident
Nigerians have dramatically turned against its senate president, Bukola Saraki disowning him as their number three citizen and have also…
Saraki mandates senate committee, CBN to settle GENCOs debt
Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki has mandated the Senate Committee on Power to liaise with the Central Bank of Nigeria…
BREAKING: Saraki loses bid to stop CCT trial again
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Justice Abdulkadir Abdu-Kafarati of Federal High Court has dismissed the fundamental rights suit filed by Senate President Bukola…
Judge postpones ruling in Saraki’s latest move to stop trial
Justice Abdul Kafarati of Federal High Court, Abuja has postponed ruling in the suit filed by Dr Bukola Saraki, against…