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INEC also fixed a date for election into a vacant seat in Lagos.

“We call on all relevant authorities, including the Nigeria Police Force and the Judiciary to expedite action."

The Senate had threatened to suspend sittings until the elections are conducted.

The Senate rejected the loan proposal on Tuesday.

“We would be engaging the Senate. We will not be disputing with them but we will be engaging with them."

The Senate turned down the president’s request on Tuesday, demanding the submission of all relevant documents.

The bill seeks to provide one per cent of federally generated revenue to Lagos.

“To come back again to re-introduce the toll gates means another waste of public resources," the NLC scribe said.

The toll gate policy was abolished in 2004 by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The lawmakers say the aviation sector was facing a crisis.

Two bills with similar intentions were harmonised.

‎The two judges were nominated by the National Judicial Council.

The senate also asked the president to include the 2018 census in next year's budget.

The Bill was generated after a motion moved on the floor in November, 2015.

The bill had stalled in the Senate since June.

A former senator voluntarily stepped down.

The previous fine was N10,000.

Mr. Buhari also invited Senators to attend the launching of a book written about him in October.

“I was offered the ticket at a price but I rejected it."

That will be done in “a manner that is transparent and beneficial to the country”, he said.

The members deny receiving N75 million to embark on protest against Dino Melaye .

Mr. Enang and the six members are to be sanctioned for agreeing to testify against the Senate leadership.

The senate scrambled a denial days after several members revealed a plot to move against Mr. Buhari.

A police report provides insight into the intrigues leading to the 2015 election of Mr. Saraki as senate president.

Saraki and Ekweremadu are accused of forging Senate Rules used in inaugurating the upper chamber.