President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has set up a special committee to assess the lapses in the 1999 Constitution that are holding back the Nigeria Police Force. Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Police Council meeting chaired y the President in Abuja, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state said the committee would look at how to enhance coordination Read More
Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has said that Nigeria needed a new constitution that would take into account the 1963 and the 1999 Constitution and the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. Anyaoku, who described Nigeria as a country in an unprecedented level of divisiveness and declining sense of national unity, said the nation’s economy was Read More
The Ondo state House of Assembly has again reinstated their position on the current impeachment process against the state deputy governor, Lucky Orimisan Ayedatiwa. In a letter written by counsel to the Assembly, Femi Emmanuel Emodamori and made available to the press stated that “Our Client, the Ondo state House of Assembly, has brought some distorted news story stating that Read More
The crisis rocking Labour Party took a fresh dimension Wednesday as two conflicting court orders from two courts, one in Abuja and another in Benin, were issued against and in favour of some the national officers and some suspended members of the party respectively. In the latest order, a State High Court sitting in Benin Wednesday issued an order restraining Read More
The House of Representatives has mandated the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), to transmit the Constitution (5th alteration) Bill 47 to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent in line with the provisions of the Acts Authentication Act. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) Bill, No. 47, 2022 Establishment of State Security Council, to advise Read More
The National Assembly, Wednesday, passed the Federal Audit Service Bill which among others, prescribes a five-year jail term for any accounting officer, who prevents the Office of the Auditor General for the Federation from accessing their account books. Passage of the bill by the Senate was in concurrence with the House of Representatives which had earlier passed the proposed Read More
Gombe State High Court has restrained Gombe State Government and the police from the Publisher of Daylight Reporters, an online news medium, Dahiru Hassan Kera. In his ruling on the case with the suit no: GM/145M/2022, Justice H. H Kereng of the Gombe State High Court of Justice, warned the state government against arresting the publisher. The court ruled that, Read More
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja has fixed May 19 for judgment in a suit instituted by aggrieved retirees from the six geo-political zones of the country against the federal government over alleged discrimination in the implementation of pension policy in the country. The trial judge, Justice Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, fixed the date Tuesday after counsel to various parties adopted Read More
Our national constitution summons us quadrennially to the polling booths to perform our civic duties as citizens. That duty, as important and as sacred as they come, is the process by which we institute governments, arguably, of our choice. That duty obliges us to either change or retain our political leaders in the executive and the legislative branches of government Read More
A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, has asked the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to clarify the commission’s position on Section 134 of the 1999 constitution to the public. Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution provides requirements to be met by a presidential candidate in relation to the office of Read More
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have been urged to devise simple ways for Nigerians to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). President of Jasawa Community Development Association (JCDA), Shehu Ibrahim Masallah, made this remark on Sunday at the general congress of the association where they adopted their constitution. “INEC has registered Nigerians, including members of our community, even at Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has refused to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resume the continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise. In a judgment delivered, Tuesday, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that going by the date of the verdict, INEC would have had “just a few days away from 90 days before the general elections. Justice Ekwo, Read More
Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, constituted a 103-member Presidential Campaign Committee to mobilise votes for the party, ahead of the 2023 general elections. The PDP stated that the committee had the task of mobilising votes for the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and other candidates in the state. The party in a statement Read More
Before he ventured to contest the Senate Presidency, Senator Ahmad Lawan, had a clear-cut vision in his legislative agenda which some at the time considered a rather tall order. One of the most ambitious of them was his bid to restore the nation’s deformed budget cycle to the January to December timeline. The country for twenty years Read More
The Nigeria Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees (NUAAE) has suspended its National President, Comrade Simon Anchaver, and General Secretary, Comrade Aitekhuehi Ededuan, indefinitely for alleged criminal breach of agreement in accordance with the NUAAE constitution. The suspension, according to the a statement issued over the weekend by the acting president and secretary of NUAAE, Comrades Aniedi Ekpo and Chapi Read More
A former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Chief Wole Olanipekun, Wednesday said that the ongoing constitutional amendment can not work, maintaining that Nigeria needs constitutional replacement. Olanipekun who delivered the 13th convocation lecture of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun state, insisted that the present constitution can not solve the security, pandemic and other problems facing the country. Speaking Read More
The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, and the League of Imams and Alfas in Yorubaland, may have set for power show, Saturday, over the installation and turban of the founder of Jama’atu Ta’awun Muslimeen, Sheik Daood Imran Molaasan, as the Grand Mufti of Iwoland. While the Muslim group warned Oluwo to shelve the plan for the installation, the monarch Read More
Following allegation of $4 million bribe against officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Coalition of Political Parties (CUPP) has called on political to focus on campaigns and leave frivolous allegations against the commission. Urging security agencies to be on top of their game, the CUPP said that it has concluded after thorough investigation that the allegations are false and Read More
Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Salihu Moh Lukman, has called for a new orientation in the management of political parties to address issues of membership recruitment and management, party funding and administration. Lukman, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said unless these issues are addressed Nigerians will continue to experience all the familiar Read More
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and a chieftain of the party in Bayelsa state, Hon. Yekini Nabena, has commended the peaceful conduct of State Congress in the state where new leaders have emerged. At the Bayelsa state delegate election congress, Barr. Dennis Otiotio emerged as the new APC Chairman, Hon. Francis Koloko as Read More
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed support for Senate amendments to the Electoral Act which mandates political parties to elect their candidates through direct primaries mode. In a statement signed Wednesday in Abuja, by the APC’s acti g national secretary John James Akpanudoedehe, asked Nigerians to ignore the the soundbites from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which vehemently Read More
Ahead the 2023 general elections, a support group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the platform of Progressives Consolidation Group (PCP) has rated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as the best qualified to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. The APC members said Osinbajo’s presidency will increase party’s chances for massive success in the coming general elections and also accelerate growth Read More
A new group within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged known as ‘APC rebirth’, demanding that a free and fair process of the national convention should be urgently announced to avoid implosion of the party. The group also kicked against the consensus option being deployed by the national leadership of the party to elect party officials from the Read More
Following rate of criminality and security challenges facing the nation, Govenor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, of Ondo state has called for urgent restructuring of the country in the best interest of all. Governor Akeredolu, speaking over the weekend in Akure, Ondo state capital during the commemoration anniversary of the 61st anniversary of the country said the current system adopted in the county does Read More
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has said governors were not voted to power by Nigerians to destroy the country in its present critical stage, adding that the “unity and oneness of Nigeria as a nation is sacrosanct.” Speaking at a special interaction with journalists at the Government House Friday, Ganduje said the clamour for power shift bandied about Read More
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