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The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Tuesday accused anti-graft agencies of looting funds and property recovered from corrupt persons and said this untoward act was the major reason why foreign countries harbouring monies stolen from Nigeria had refused to return them to the country.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has described as unconstitutional, last Friday’s announcement by the Nigerian Army that IPOB is a militant terrorist group whose activities have been banned in Nigeria.

The President of the Senate Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has expressed sadness over the death of Channels Television reporter Mr. Chukwuma Onuekwusi.

The Senate, Tuesday, stepped down the confirmation of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commission, REC, officers over what it described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sack the rejected Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari who has been on vacation in London on Wednesday.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed that it had received the letter from President Muhammadu Buhari extending his vacation in the UK.

The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is drawn to the recent withdrawal of the Forgery Case brought before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Jabi Division of the FCT High Court, Abuja by the Federal Government through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation against the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu …

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The recent withdrawal of the forgery case against the Senate President and other members of the National Assembly is a welcome development at this crucial time.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court, has granted bail to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and two other accused persons — Salisu Maikasuwa, former clerk of the national assembly, and Benedict Efeturi, deputy clerk of the legislature. Saraki, Ekweremadu and others were docked before Justice Yusuf Haliru over their alleged complicity in forgery of the Senate Standing …

….as FG opposes their bail request The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, were on Monday, docked before an Abuja High Court at Jabi over their alleged complicity in forgery of the Senate Standing Rules, 2015. The two lawmakers took turns and pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge preferred against them by the federal government. …