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If impemented, the recommendations will substantially whittle down the enormous powers of the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria ...

Mr Akpabio pledged the full support of the National Assembly for the police to achieve better policing in the country.

President Tinubu said with the signing of the Student Loan Bill, the future of the Nigerian child will be bright.

However, as soon as Mr Ali raised the motion to name a committee room after the late monarch, many lawmakers ...

The allegation of budget padding made by Bauchi Central senator, Abdul Ningi, led to a chain of events at the ...

Mr Akpabio said many of the nation's existing laws are obsolete.

"If we want to go into this issue, all of us are culpable. Some senators here, so-called senior senators, got ...

Budget padding, which characterised most part of the Buhari Presidency, is returning under the Tinubu administration.

The northern senators claim Mr Akpabio and his cronies smuggled N4 trillion worth of self-enrichment projects into the budget.

During the meeting, the lawmakers will present a summary of the reports and resolutions of the National Assembly on insecurity ...

The outage was caused by the Senate's faulty generator.

Four issues involving CBN came up for discussion at the upper legislative chamber last week.

NLC had scheduled 27 and 28 February to protest against hunger and economic hardship occasioned by some policies of the ...

"So, if the senate president, who is the number three citizen in this country, could be quoting an unverified report, ...

Mr Akpabio also noted that the bill seeking for the establishment of SEDC was hurriedly passed to show solidarity with ...

The bill, which was transmitted from the House of Representatives to the Senate for concurrence, seeks to extend the tenure ...

The Senate said the current price of cement is unbearable to Nigerians considering the high cost of living that Nigerians ...

If established, the commission will be responsible for the management of funds allocated by the federal government for capital projects ...

The senators said there is already a high level of poverty in the country and the current economy is harsh ...

The Senate said the Ways and Means approved by the 9th National Assembly plunged the nation into indebtedness and economic ...

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the composition of the committee during the plenary.

The president's request was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during the plenary on Tuesday.

The closed-door session is being held primarily because of the worsening security situation in the country.

Mr Akpabio and Mr Abbas are sued for themselves and on behalf of all members of the National Assembly.

The Senate last week resolved to summon security chiefs to an interactive session to discuss possible solutions to the worsening ...