While addressing state house correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said even if Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is pretending, he cannot pretend forever. Senate President Bukola Saraki also attended the meeting and spoke with reporters alongside Dogara. Reporters had […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, behind closed doors. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president is meeting the two National Assembly leaders barely two hours after his return from Daura, Katsina State. The […]
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Amanda, the daughter of Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation tied the nuptial knots with Otelemaba Westwood in Abuja today. The wedding was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari before he departed for the United States, to keep an appointment on Monday at the White House in Washington D.C. with President Donald Trump. […]
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The senate has suspended Ovie Omo-Agege, an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker from Delta state, for 90 legislative days. The upper legislative chamber took the decision after it considered a report by its ethics committee. The committee had recommended that senator be suspended for 181 days but the senate reduced it after pleas from lawmakers. Omo-Agege was […]
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The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed July 6 to deliver judgment on the appeal filed by the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, in respect to the false asset declaration charges preferred against him. The court will also deliver judgment on the cross appeal filed by the federal government with regard to the charges. Justice […]
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has disclosed that some senators are angry they were not consulted over the $1 billion approved for the procurement of security equipment in the country. Senator Saraki who spoke in Jos, Plateau state, on Saturday, Saraki said it was wrong for the executive to take the […]
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The death toll from Thursday’s robbery attack in Offa town in Kwara State has risen to at least 30. About 30 robbers had hit the town, raiding five commercial banks along the Owode Market Area of the town in Offa Local Government Area of the state. The attack which lasted for hours had left the […]
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Bukola Saraki, Senate President, on Thursday, met with Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates and African Business Mogul, Aliko Dangote to proffer solutions to financing healthcare in Nigeria. Saraki who was accompanied by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had the breakfast with the business magnates and philanthropists at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja. […]
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, on Thursday adjourned the trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki indefinitely. Saraki is being tried on three of the 18 counts of false assets declaration filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Senate President was accompanied to the court by not less than 20 […]
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Not often do you see the President of Nigeria, the Senate President and the richest African attend a wedding with not less than 22 governors. The wedding of Idris Ajimobi and Fatima Ganduje is one of the rare weddings that bring men of this calibre together. The couple are children of the governors of Kano […]
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