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Senator representing Delta Central District in the National Assembly, Movie Omo-Agege, has vowed to resume plenary next week despite the red chamber’s appeal to a High Court’s nullification of his suspension.

Nigeria's Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has said the Force does not owe any individual or group any apology in discharging its duties.

On Wednesday, the Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, snubbed the Senate after failing to appear before the chambers as expected.

 Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters is expected to present its report on President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment on Wednesday. Daily post reports that the committee is looking into the approval of the payment of $496m out of the Excess Crude Account for the purchase of military aircraft. The 12 Super Tucano aircraft ordered from the United States will be delivered in 2020. The Senate had on Thursday resolved to refer the matter to the committee for legal advice, when lawmakers became divided on it. The panel was given the mandate to see whether the President violated the constitution or not. Most of the lawmakers who spoke on the withdrawal pointed out that the President had breached Section 80 of the 1999 Constitution, while a few disagreed. Senator Mathew Uroghide, who is the Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts, had specifically urged the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, to allow the chamber to invoke Section 143 of th...

Abubakar Malami, (SAN), Nigeria's Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF)  on Monday told the Federal High Court Abuja that the suspension of Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege was unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful,Daily post reports. Malami, who is the 3rd defendant in the ongoing suit brought by Omo-Agege challenging his suspension from the Senate, made his position known through his counsel, Mr Dayo Apata. Apata, who doubles as the Solicitor-General of the Federation, in his submission, said that the role of the AGF was to defend and protect the constitution, adding that he had to react to any issue that had to do with the constitution. “According to Section 4(8), 39, 40 of the Constitution and Articles of the African Charter on Human Rights, all the actions of the senate relating to the suspension of the plaintiff (Omo-Agege) are unconstitutional, illegal and unlawful,” he told the court. The solicitor-general urged the court to hold that the senate’s actions were unlawful. ...

Last week, the Nigerian polity and internet was thrown into confusion  after some heavy bodied thugs walked gallantly into the senate chambers amids tight security to snatch the mace out into an unknow destination.  Although it was found afterwards but the question on everyone's lips  remains: how possible was that with all the security check points before entering into the national assembly? However, suspended member of the senate, Ovie Omo-Agege was fingered to be the one behind the group of thugs who stole the mace. Here is the real shocker! The lawmaker who suddenly became a lawbreaker is son of a former Chief Judge of Delta state, Justice James Omo-Agege. The former Justice they say is one of the longest-serving chief judge in the history of the state and was famous for carrying out the sentencing of the infamous armed robbers, Lawrence Anini, Monday Osunbor and George Iyamu, a police officer, to death by firing squad in the 1987.  He died on August...

 Embattled lawmaker representing Delta Central Senatorial district, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has been arrested, Daily post reports. The arrest followed his alleged involvement in the snatching of Senate’s mace early on Wednesday when he personally led about seven thugs into the chambers. After the incident, he stayed in the plenary while large number of policemen were waiting for him to come out. Omo-Agege could not be arrested in the chambers by policemen, who patiently waited, because of the immunity attached to lawmakers while in the gallery. Emerging out of the chambers, he was whisked away in a black Hilux van which was also waiting at the main entrance of the White House.

Today, plenary session at the Senate was almost disrupted following a  comment by one senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari was  incompetent. Daily Post reports that, Abaribe’s allegation followed an adopted order 43 which he raised in reference to the excuse which the President gave while in London that the killer herdsmen were allegedly trained by Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan revolutionary leader. In his explanation, Abaribe said, before now, two excuses have been made public in several fora by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahaman Dambazzau and the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim kpotun Idris, saying the wanton killings by armed herdsmen was because their pastoral routes were blocked while the latter was credited to have said that it was due to the new state laws against open grazing. He said, “Yesterday in London, President Muhammadu Buhari said the killings in the country was as a result of the people who were tra...

The Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has reportedly appointed a former senator, Abubakar Danladi as his Special Adviser on Special Duties. 

 Nigerian Senate on Thursday rejected the request of Governor Nasiru El-Rufai to secure a 350 million dollar World Bank loan for Kaduna State. The senators rejected the request on the premise that obtaining the loan may put so much pressure on the management of the state which presently has a debt burden of $232.1 million.   The Senate took the stand after accepting the recommendations of its Committee on Local and Foreign Debt and contributions by all the three Senators from the state, who declined support to the loan request. Senator Shehu Sani, who presented the report on Kaduna State Development Policy Operation (DPO) Credit Facility from the World Bank, said although it was approved by the bank in 2016, accepting the loan would compound the financial situation of the state.   He said that if approved, the state total debt stock would rise to $582.1 million  Sani explained that the world bank facility was captured in the 2016 – 2018 borrowing plan as appr...

A serving Senator, Ali Wakili, chairman senate committee on poverty is died at age 56.

Former governor, Gombe State and a serving senator, Muhammad Danjuma Goje's charges of financial misappropriation during his tenure as governor came up on Tuesday, February 6, 2017 before Justice B. Quadri at the Federal High Court, Jos, with PW24 testifying. 

Nigerian Government will on March 1, 2018 arraign Senator Dino Melaye before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on two counts of giving false information about an assassination attempt on his life to the police in April 2017.  

Few days back the Nigerian senate was thrown into celebration after an Abuja court ruled in their favour, stating that the lawmaker had every right to reject Ibrahim Magu's appointment.

Nigeria's Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said the embargo placed on the confirmation of appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari has not been lifted. 

Nigeria's Senate President, Bukola Saraki is likely to return back to the code of Conduct Tribunal to continue with his false asset trial in a fresh suit filed by the Federal Government according to Sahara Reporters.

The 8th Senate passed the Second Reading of the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Bill has been forwarded to the Committee on Appropriations and its various sub-committees for further consideration and budget defence by the various ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government. Speaking on the passage of the Second Reading of the Budget, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki said: “We know that the timetable is very tight. We will be suspending plenary for us to be able to start the defense of this budget. Committee Chairmen and Members should please ensure that we keep to this timetable. Let me respond with a general note of warning to all Heads of MDAs to ensure that they strictly respect the letters of invitation and the timetable. This is not time for excuses for Ministers or Heads of parastatals to be traveling and not be able to attend their budget defense. We do not have the time. This is a very short timeframe, therefore, I expect all MDAs to be able to ...

Nigerian Senate has recalled back senator Ali Ndume following the expiry of his 6-month suspension by the Red Chamber. Also, some Senators have disagreed with the chamber’s counsel, Mike Ozekhome(SAN) for proceeding on appeal against the High Court judgment that declared Ndume’s suspension illegal without the resolution of members. Ozekhome has filed a notice of appeal against Friday’s judgment of Justice Babatunde Quadri of the Federal High Court, Abuja which declared Ndume’s suspension as illegal, null and void.

Nigeria's imediate past minister of Finance ,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been indicted by the Nigerian senate over a N1.7t loss in revenue. According to the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under-Remittance and Other Fraudulent Activities, revenue agencies short-changed the Federal Government to the tune of N1.7tn as unremitted revenue generated between 2012 and 2016. The panel blamed it on a memo by a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who allegedly issued the memo to the agencies to remit 25 per cent of revenue they generated to the Federal Government and spend 75 per cent on their expenditures. An interim report by the committee chaired by Senator Olamilekan Adeola, details this. The panel said the amount to be remitted to the Federal Government during the period by 93 agencies it investigated was N21.5tn. It alleged that 25 of the 93 agencies covered defrauded the government of a total of N1,695,585,887,406.

 Nigerian Senate on Thursday said that it would probe how the Paris Club refunds and other bailout funds given to state governors by President Muhammadu Buhari were approved. The decision by the apex legislative chamber to investigate the funds was provoked by concerns that many state governors currently owe workers’ salaries, pensions and other allowances. Senator Samuel Anyanwu (PDP, Imo East), yesterday in plenary, sought the leave of the Senate to move a motion on the matter, querying the legality of the funds given to governors by President Buhari without approval of the National Assembly. President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who presided over the session, subjected Anyanwu’s request to vote. The proposal was unanimously supported and Saraki announced that the motion would be presented on another legislative day. Recall that the Federal Government had released the breakdown of payments to the 36 states as refund of “over-deductions on Paris Club, London Club L...