Sen. Chukwuka Utazi

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has nominated Sen. Philip Aduda as the new Minority Leader of the Senate. Also nominated was Sen. Chukwuka Utazi as the new Minority Whip. The nominations were contained in a letter signed by the…

The Senate Committee on Interior has said that it would undertake an upward review of inmates’ feeding cost from N450 to N1,000 per day. The decision was taken, on Wednesday, after officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS)…

The Senate, on Wednesday, considered a critical bill that would see to the eventual repeal of the obsolete Quarantine Act enacted in 1926, and help Nigeria deal with any impending outbreak of infectious and contagious diseases in the…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has appealed to all Nigerians to take whatever issues they feel strongly about to the National Assembly especially now that the process of the Constitutional review is in progress. Sen. Lawan made the appeal,…

…Appeals against stigmatisation, discrimination of persons living with the virus The Senate, on Wednesday, urged the Federal Government to ensure adequate funding of the National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) for the fight and…

The National and State Houses of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Enugu on Monday adjourned until May 15, pre-hearing in the petition filed by Mrs Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu, challenging the election of  Deputy President of the Senate,…

The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the appointment of Modibbo Tukur as the pioneer Director of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU). This followed a presentation of report of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and…