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Sunday, October 11th, 2015
By Clifford Ndujihe & Dapo Akinrefon NATIONAL Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, lambasted Senate President, Bukola Saraki, describing him as an indisciplined, disloyal and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in soul. Tinubu spoke yesterday while denying media reports (not Vanguard) that he was conspiring with Senate President […]
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Sunday, October 11th, 2015
Abuja—A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, senator from Bayelsa State, Ben Muray-Bruce, has said President Muhammadu Buhari had the right to appoint those he could work with as his ministers, provided such appointees met the expectations of the Red Chamber and Nigerians. Murray-Bruce spoke in Abuja, weekend, when the members of Ben Bruce Vanguard, BBV, paid […]
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House, Legislature, Senate
Sunday, October 11th, 2015
Predictable public outrage has trailed the proposal from a section of federal lawmakers to move to change the constitution to include the Senate President and his Deputy, Speaker of the House of Representatives and his Deputy as well as the Chief Justice of the Federation in the list of public officers to enjoy the immunity […]
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Saturday, October 10th, 2015
By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor The controversy over the monthly salary of a Nigerian lawmaker has finally been laid to rest with a formal disclosure of what the legislators earn. The National Institute of Legislative Studies, NILS, apparently worried by growing public outcry against the Nigerian lawmakers, on Friday released a set of documents, […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
-Punch The Senate will on Wednesday decide the procedure for screening ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, who said this in an exclusive interview with one of our correspondents on Thursday in Abuja, assured Nigerians that the screening of ministerial nominees would not be delayed by the […]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
The President of the Senata, Abubakar Bukola Saraki received the document containing President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees from the Chief of Staff to Mr. President, Abba Kyari (with cap), and the Special Adviser to Mr. President on National Assembly (Senate) Sen. Ita Enang. LEwp_posts
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Justice R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Abuja has remitted Senate President Bukola Saraki’s case to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mahmud Mohammed, for reassigning to another judge. The judge, in returning the case file to the CJN on Wednesday, cited “negative reports” on the case as informing his decision.wp_posts
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

Senate President, Bukola Saraki THE Senate, expectedly, had a stormy session on Tuesday as some members of the upper legislative chamber protested the passing of vote of confidence in the Senate president, Olusola Saraki, by 83 senators. Tuesday was the Senate’s first plenary since the arraignment of Saraki by the Code of Conduct Bureau […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

By Henry Umoru ABUJA- SENATE President Bukola Saraki who appeared before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT following a 13-count charge against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau, over alleged falsification of assets he admitted, said Tuesday that if he was not the Senate President, he would not be going through the present trial. […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, has compelled the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki, to mount the dock to answer to corruption charges preferred against him by the federal government. Saraki who initially refused to enter inside the accused box to enter his plea to the 13-count criminal charge against […]