The Senate, on Tuesday, attributed the major source of insecurity in the country to the problem of out-of-school children.
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As children mark the 2019 Children’s Day in the world, President of the Senate Dr. Bukola Saraki has prayed for the release of Leah Sharibu, who has been in Boko Haram captivity since February 19, 2018.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Monday described children as Nigeria’s most important treasure as a nation.
The passage followed the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan’s reintroduction of the redrafted bill at a plenary presided over by Senate President, Bukola Saraki in Abuja.
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed June 24 to hear two separate fundamental rights enforcement suits filed by Senate President, Bukola Saraki, challenging the decision of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe him.
President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, says he is unaware of alleged new guidelines by National Assembly’s Director of Information, Emmanuel Agada, for accreditation of journalists covering the activities of the legislative arm.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the “leadership and management of the National Assembly to immediately withdraw the repressive media accreditation guidelines or face legal action.”
The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has cautioned “a certain South West political leader” and “his collaborators in the All Progressives Congress Federal Government” to steer clear of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and jettison “the new plot to unleash the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other anti-corruption agencies in order to intimidate the man.”
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, in Abuja, said the country cannot but be proud about the patriotism and resilience of its female national team.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Friday described late Oba Folagbade Olateru-Olagbegi, the Olowo of Owo, as an epitome of a great man who brought stability and peace to Owo town in Ondo State.
The Senate on Thursday concurred with the Public Holiday Act (Amendment) Bill, passed by the House of Representatives, which approved June 12 as Democracy Day.
Jafaar claimed that about six weeks after the Sarkin Kano was enthroned, the emirate’s safe was raided and, within two years, stripped of over N4 billion, apart from nearly N500 million spent on luxury cars. That was outside the millions of naira spent on travels and phone calls, which more than doubled the annual overheads of the palace
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, the Department of State Services and other anti-corruption agencies involved in the probe of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, that they cannot probe him.
Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Tuesday said the ongoing investigation of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is not personal.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reviewed the relationship between the Executive arm of the government and the outgoing 8th National Assembly and concluded that it wasn’t the best.
Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Senate Minority Leader, on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the suit seeking him to vacate his seat at the National Assembly was incompetent.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has directed all legislative aides working in his office to submit their handover notes.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday granted leave to Senator Godswill Akpabio to challenge a suit seeking his removal along with 53 others from office.
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Godwin Emefiele as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned what it described as renewed harassment of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government.