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The Senate urged security chiefs to fully enforce presidential orders on curfew and ban on nonessential interstate travel.

The bill seeks to introduce tech platforms like Zoom, Skype into the constitution.

The nominees await the approval of the Senate.

The 5G network has been rumoured to be one of the 'causes' of COVID-19.

The federal lawmakers also urged state assemblies to make necessary laws to legalise community policing.

"Within the last three months, the commission has spent over N40 billion without recourse to established processes of funds disbursement," ...

The proposed legislation seeks to amend the Quarantine Act.

This comes a week after the House of Representatives introduced and deliberated the controversial Control of Infectious Disease Bill.

The Clerk also issued guidelines for partial and gradual resumption of selected staff on essential legislative duties.

The debt management office says President Buhari simply changed the sourcing of the loan from external to local.

The lawmakers reconvened five weeks after it suspended legislative activities to curb the spread of Coronavirus.

The lawmakers met physically at the National Assembly despite the coronavirus lockdown in Abuja.

Fourteen persons lost their lives and about 700 shelters were destroyed by a recent fire in an IDP camp in ...

The lockdown, which started on March 30, has witnessed huge compliance in the city centre.

Senate also urged the federal government to shut down all international airports except Lagos and Abuja airports.

One of the bills seeks to mandate a specific number of women as ministers.

The Senate also wants aspiring lawmakers to have a minimum of OND.

The bills were, thereafter, referred to the Senate Committee on Constitution Review for further legislative work.

Despite the opposition, the Senate resolved to include it in the constitution.

"This committee will continue to engage with people in government as well as people outside of government where we can ...

The president has written to the Senate seeking amendments to the Finance Act recently passed by the National Assembly.

The House of Representatives is expected to pass the same CAMA bill after which it will be transmitted to the ...

The Senate is holding a public hearing on the bill from Monday, amidst outrage by Nigerians.

The Senate deliberated on a bill that will compel the president to reflect federal character in the appointment of military ...

About 70 per cent (that is, $17,065,496,773) of the new $22.7 billion loan bid will be coming from China's EXIM ...