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- 21 Oct 2016
MTN’s Repatriated $13.9Bn can Pull Nigeria Out of Recession – Saraki
Dr Bukola Saraki, Senate President said yesterday that the $13.9bn allegedly repatriated by MTN Nigeria was enough to pull the country out of recession. Saraki disclosed this while opening the…
- 6 Nov 2017
Nigeria Loses N127Bn to Cyber Crime – Saraki
Dr Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate, has said that Nigeria has lost about N127 billion to cybercrime. He disclosed this at Nigeria’s first Legislative Stakeholders Conference on ICT and Cyber…
- 3 Jan 2017
Opportunity Knocks as Saraki Unveils #MadeInNigeria Challenge
Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, president of the Senate, Federal Republic of Nigeria, has introduced a contest to promote made in Nigeria products. The Contest scheduled for three months is aimed at…
- 13 Aug 2013
EFCC Grills Saraki over Defunct SGBN
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday, grilled Bukola Saraki, former Kwara State governor over the failure of family-owned Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN). Societe…
- 5 Jun 2017
Senate to Meet with CBN on High Interests Rates Charged by Banks
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has criticised commercial banks for the high interest rates they charge on loan facilities to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises. Saraki said the Senate would…
- 1 Apr 2015
Men Who Made Buhari’s Victory Possible
The significance of Muhammadu Buhari’s victory is underlined by the fact that this will be the first in the history of Nigeria’s electoral process when an incumbent president is defeated. It was no…
- 4 Mar 2016
Remita: Group Accuses Saraki of Plotting to Frustrate Buhari
An anti-corruption watchdog, The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has accused Senate President, Bukola Saraki of plotting to frustrate the efforts of President Mohammad Buhari towards…
- 4 Nov 2015
Buhari Emerges Senate Committee Chairman on ICT
Senator Bukola Saraki, senate president, on Wednesday announced the leadership composition of the Senate Committees, while giving them oversight functions. From the list, Senator Abdulfatai Buhari…
- 1 Oct 2015
Fashola, Amaechi, Ngige, Make Buharis’s Ministerial List
Bukola Saraki, senate president, on Wednesday received the ministerial nominees list at about 4:56pm from the Presidency but said the content of the presidential communication would be read on…
- 12 Oct 2015
Ministerial Nominees: Odimegwu, Oyinlola, Others on Buhari’s 2nd List
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday sent the second list of ministerial nominees to Senate President Bukola Saraki. This is coming 12 days after the first list was sent to the lawmakers, who will…
- 26 Feb 2014
Sanusi Drags Jonathan, Others to Court over Suspension
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, removed governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has sued President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge his suspension from office. And he is…
- 11 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech As Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 22 Aug 2017
Increasing Threats on Free Speech as Political Terrorism
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and…
- 16 May 2015
Ex-Governors Have N172Bn Cases of Fraud- Punch
Saturday Punch has revealed that over N172 billion fraud cases are pending against some senators-elect who were formerly governors. Over 15 ex-governors won senate seats in the March 28 election with…
- 24 Aug 2018
HURIWA Seeks Probe of NBC DG, Claims Buhari Blackmailing Media
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a non-governmental organization, has accused the Alhaji Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, director general, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) of being a…
- 26 Mar 2014
Sanusi Dragged to Court over Alleged N50Bn Fraud
Shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, yesterday, dragged Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi , suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), before a Federal High Court in Abuja,…
- 13 Jun 2015
Fashola, Amaechi, Others May Make Buhari’s Cabinet
Immediate past governors of Lagos and Rivers states, Mr. Babatunde Fashola and Mr. Rotimi Amaechi respectively; a former governor of Ekiti State, Engineer Segun Oni and Education minister in the…
- 5 Nov 2016
ATCON Visits Saraki, Warns of Dangers of ICT Tax Bill
Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has again warned that the proposed plan by the federal government to impose a special tax of nine per cent for the use of communication…
- 7 Oct 2015
Nigerians Poke Buhari, Say He Tabled “Ministerial Compensation” List
Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed the formal unveiling of the ministerial list sent to the Senate last week by President Muhammadu Buhari. On the list of 21 nominees whose names were read out at…
- 28 Sept 2015
Buhari Sends Ministerial List to Senate, Amaechi Makes List
At last President Mohammadu Buhari has handed the list of 36 ministers to the Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang for onward transmission to the National…
- 1 Oct 2015
Senate to Get New Batch of Ministerial Nominees Tuesday
Another batch of ministerial nominees will hit the Senate on Tuesday, October 6, the day chamber is expected to resume in plenary after the independence anniversary recess. National Assembly source…
- 7 Jun 2017
Cartels Running CBN, Banks –Senate
Senate has alleged that an unnamed cartel has taken control of Nigerian commercial banks to the detriment of the economy and small businesses operating in the country. The chamber said that the…
- 24 Oct 2017
Senate Mulls Probe of Etisalat Nigeria Loans
The senate plans to vote on a motion to investigate the use of $1.2 billion in loans taken out by telecoms firm Etisalat Nigeria, now called 9mobile. The motion if passed would mandate a…
- 17 Jan 2018
NNPC, Marketers Stole N784Bn from Nigeria in 2017 - Senate
Revelations were made in the Senate on Wednesday that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Independent marketers duped Nigeria to the tune of N784.700 billion on surplus volume of…
- 1 Feb 2018
Court Okays Senate’s Rejection of Magu as EFCC Boss
The fate of Mr. Ibrahim Magu, embattled acting chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), may have been sealed Thursday when a Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that the Senate is…
- 16 Mar 2018
Rights Group to Picket Telcos, Pay TV Operators over Poor Services
Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), a civil rights organisation, has expressed its readiness to picket and disrupt business activities in telecoms and pay television service providing…
- 16 Apr 2018
MTN Group Meets FG over Nigerian IPO
MTN Group has met with the federal government as part of its commitment to Nigeria and assures the government of its commitment on the planned IPO and diversification of shareholding to Nigerians.…
- 20 Apr 2018
MTN Appoints Investment Firms for Nigerian Unit's IPO
MTN has appointed Nigerian investment firm Chapel Hill Denham as lead issuing house for the initial public offering of its Nigerian business in Lagos later this year, two sources told Reuters on…
- 8 May 2018
NCC, Telcos to Face Senate over Dropped Calls, Unsolicited SMSes
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and telecommunication operators have been invited to face the senate committee on communications over the issue of unsolicited adverts and dropped calls.…
- 9 May 2019
Buhari Reappoints Emefiele as CBN Governor
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The President has written to the Senate to seek legislative approval for another tenure…