Alleged 2024 Budget padding: NASS says integrity of the Chamber totally damaged, suspends Sen. Ningi for 3 months
March 12, 2024 The Senate has suspended Sen. Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi) for three months from all activities of the Senate over 2024 Budget padding allegation. The upper chamber’s resolution was…
Tinubu signs 2024 budget into law Budget
Jan. 1, 2024 President Bola Tinubu, on Monday in Abuja, signed the 2024 appropriation bill of N28.78 trillion into law. Tinubu signed the appropriation bill into law immediately after returning…
Senator Adeola’s Aide Found Dead With Gunshot Wound in Lagos
August 7, 2023 Adeniyi Sanni, a senior aide to a serving federal lawmaker representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola, has been found dead with gunshot wound in Lagos. A…
Senate investigates alleged abuse of firearms by some officials of NCS
July 19, 2023 The Senate has set up an ad hoc committee to investigate alleged indiscriminate use of firearms by some personnel of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), resulting in killings…
Senate to begin probe of revenue generating MDAs on March 10
Senate Committee of Finance says it will begin its investigation of revenue generating Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) from March 10, to determine their compliance to laws of remittance of…
Finance Bill 2019: NECA expresses concern over passage, says it is anti-people
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), has decried failure of the Senate to consider stakeholders submissions before passage of the Finance Bill into Law. Mr Timothy Olawale, the Director-General raised…
NASS warns MDAs to desist from diverting revenue accruing to FG
The National Assembly, NASS, has warned all the revenue generating federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) engaging in diversion of revenues to desist from the act, saying such practice would…
Proposed VAT increment: Finance minister, FIRS chairman to appear before Senate
The Senate Committee on Finance says it will invite the Minister of Finance and the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS) to give details on reasons for the proposed increase in…
Senate Assures NOAC, Others of commitment to Commence $13.5 billion off-shore Crude Oil project
The Senate Committee on Local Content has assured Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NOAC) and other stakeholders of its support. The committee also expressed its commitment for the commencement of the…
Electoral Bill: Moves to Override the President’s Veto Would Only Amount to Overheating the Polity
Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos) has kicked against any attempt to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2018. Adeola made this known, on Sunday,…