The Senate has intervened in the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), in a bid to end the strike and make the nation’s hospitals functional once again. The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, after a meeting with the leadership of JOHESU yesterday (Thursday) where he listened […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday receive the 2018 budget a week after its passage by the National Assembly, Senate President Bukola Saraki disclosed. Saraki made this known to State House correspondents after the breaking of (Ramadan) fast with Buhari at the President Villa, Abuja on Thursday. Saraki explained that the delay in transmission of […]
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Senator Ali Ndume and Ovie Omo-Agege, on Tuesday appeared before a joint panel of the House of Representatives and the senate to answer questions regarding their roles in the mace theft saga. However, Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central, refused to testify before an ad hoc committee of the national assembly, insisting he would not […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with 10-man senate delegation raised to address the ongoing impasse between the Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Inspector-General of Police over a criminal case involving some suspected cultists. Members of the senate delegation included former governors of Nasarawa (Abdullahi Adamu), Gombe (Danjuma Goje) and Akwa Ibom, Mr Godswill Akpabio. […]
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The Nigerian Police High Command has promptly debunked the alarm raised by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, that the police were about to implicate him using ‘‘coerced’ cultists”. The Police said the alarm was a ruse, misleading and amounted to an obstruction of justice. Saraki raised the alarm on the floor of the Senate […]
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While presiding over plenary on Wednesday, the President of Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki has alleged that Mr. Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), is planning to implicate him. Saraki said Abdulfatah Ahmed, Kwara governor, called him him Tuesday night to give him the information. His statement “Last night, my state governor, revealed to me an […]
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The Senate has filed a notice of appeal and a stay of execution on a High Court judgement nullifying the suspension of a senator, Ovie Omo-Agege. Olu Onemola, an aide to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, made this known Thursday evening. “The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Coram Nnamdi Dimgba .J. in a judgment […]
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The Nigeria police has describe the resolution of the senate as deliberate blackmail, witch-hunting, unfortunate and mischievous; and vowed not to be intimidated. Police see the Senate’s resolution declaring the Inspector-General of Police ( I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, as enemy of democracy as a deliberate attempt to blackmail him. “The Nigeria Police Force, therefore, owes […]
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday visited the new headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and said the fight against corruption must continue. According to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sanni Onogu, in Abuja, Mr Saraki said he was particularly impressed by the quality of work done […]
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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday inaugurated a joint Senate and House of Representatives ad-hoc committee to investigate the April 18 invasion of the Senate chamber leading to the theft of its mace. Some minutes into the Senate plenary on April 18, the chamber was invaded by men who made away with the mace. […]
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