Saraki thanked the outgoing Chief of Staff for his commitment and dedication to duty
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Galadu was a Peoples Democratic Party senator before he was appointed as Saraki’s Chief of Staff on June 23, 2015
The reshuffling of the five Standing Committees in the Senate saw the All Progressives Congress getting three chairmanship slots, while the Peoples Democratic Party got two
Saraki, in statement posted on his Twitter handle late on Wednesday, described the plot as “empty and unintelligent”
Saraki gave the assurance when the Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme to Nigeria, Edward Kallon, visited him in Abuja
It is in the above context that I therefore request to grace your indulgence of this distinguished senate to favourably accept my renomination of Ibrahim Magu Mustapha for the position of the EFCC having received adequate clarification considering the matter relied upon by the Senate in arriving at its decision
The warning followed a Point of Order raised by the Chairman, Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, at plenary
The Senate report indicted the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and called for his resignation or sacking by President Muhammadu Buhari
Buhari’s letter had on Tuesday been read to the senators at plenary by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki
The position of the President was contained in a letter to the Senate on Tuesday
That Dalung has overstayed his welcome is an understatement, but President Buhari sees nothing wrong with this square peg in a round hole as long as “the funds spended in the budget were properly spended.”
The Minister said this on Saturday night in Abuja at a ceremony to mark the 80th birthday of a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore
This came from a point of order raised by Senator Utazi Chukwu, who argued that President Muhammadu Buhari ought to have sought the approval of the Senate before the deployment of the troops
In a letter to President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, dated January 17, 2017 and read at plenary on Wednesday, Buhari urged the Senate to give his request the usual expeditious consideration
Nwachukwu maintained that the disputed foreign account belonged to the operators of a credit card used by Saraki for a transaction
Nwachukwu, a senior official of the Guaranty Trust Bank, made the denial in his evidence in chief at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja on Tuesday
The former Vice President said this on Monday when he joined the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to pay a condolence visit to the family of the late former Governor of Niger State, Engr. Abdulkadir Kure, in Minna
Saraki, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stressed the importance of responsive leadership
The petitioners, the National Coordinator of LANAC, Philip Odekeye and Messers Wole Abdulkadir & Co., solicitors to Starross Energy Limited, want the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest and prosecute the officials, who also issued dud cheques totalling N346 million, which they said had been reported to the commission
Apart from the wreaths laying ceremony, the President used the opportunity to make video conference calls to Nigerian troops in the battle fields in Sambisa Forest, Yola in Adamawa State and to those serving in UN Peace Mission in Liberia