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On August 9, 2022, Kenya held its general elections during which the president, governors, senators and members of the National Assembly were elected. The results of the elections were announced …
How the constitution deleted tradition Read MoreIt is important to reassess the growing push for constitutional change in Nigeria. While the call for a new constitution is fueled by genuine concerns, it may not be the …
The misplaced urgency for a new constitution Read More
The crisis rocking the Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wednesday, deepened, following the expulsion of the National Vice Chairman, South South of the Party, Chief Dan …
Edo: PDP expels impeached deputy governor, national vice chairman Read More
Elder statesman and former Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nduka Eya, has urged Nigerians to stop ‘demonising governors’ over local government administrative and financial autonomy. Eya made the call while …
Blame military for council woes, not governors – Eya Read More
As every society evolves so has Nigeria been, and organically inter-connected with this evolution is the paramount role that the use of constitution as a requisite tool for government and …
Nigeria’s trajectory and its constitution Read More
Joshua Egbodo Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Tajudeen Abbas, has declared that national integration remains the utmost priority of the parliament in the ongoing constitution amendment process. Abbas …
Constitution review: National integration, our priority-Abbas Read More
Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has reacted to the political development in Rivers state where 27 lawmakers elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into …
CNPP urges defecting 27 Rivers’ lawmakers to vacate seat, calls for bye-election Read More
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 …
Tinubu sets up constitutional review committee on police reforms 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 …
Nigeria needs new Constitution – Anyaoku 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 …
Ondo assembly reinstates position on deputy governor’s impeachment 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 …
Conflicting orders as court restrains LP from suspending national officers 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 …
Constitution review: Reps urges CAN to transmit Security Council Bill to Buahri 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 …
NASS passes federal audit service bill, prescribes 5-year jail term for defaulters 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 …
Court restrains Gombe, police from arresting Daylight Reporters’ publisher 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 …
Court fixes May 19 for judgment over retirees’ suit against FG 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 …
Power in a piece of paper – an essay on the quirks of democracy 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 …
Agbakoba to INEC: Clarify your position on Section 134 of Constitution 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 …
Ease process for Jos citizens to collect PVCs, JCDA urges INEC 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, …
2023: Court refuses to order INEC to resume CVR over short day to election 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 …
Lagos PDP sets up 103-member presidential campaign committee 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. …
The validity of Lawan’s ‘correctness’ on executive/legislature harmony 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 …
NUAAE suspends president, secretary over ‘financial indictment’ 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 …
Nigeria needs new constitution, not amendment – Olanipekun 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 …
Oluwo, league of Imams at war over installation of Grand Mufti 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 …
$4m bribe: CUPP urges parties to focus on campaign, leave INEC alone Read More