Former Senator and former Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, on Sunday, berated the youths criticising the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, for not engaging the government of President Bola Tinubu on some of his policies, as he always did with other administrations. Mr Ojudu advised the young ones to go … Read more
Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has asked the Nigerian government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, stated this while speaking to reporters in Onitsha on Saturday, according to a report by Punch newspaper. The … Read more
The federal government has filed a suit at the Supreme Court against the the 36 state governments, seeking the enforcement of full autonomy of the local governments in Nigeria. There are 774 local government areas in the country. However, efficient governance at the the level of the third tier of government has been hampered by … Read more
Two years after, senators reconvenes in newly-renovated chamber Senators resumed from about four weeks of Easter and Eid-el-Fitr recess on Tuesday at the newly-renovated chamber. The upper chamber embarked on holiday on 20 March. Ahead of Tuesday’s plenary, seats had been allocated to the 109 senators including the senate president in the chamber. It had … Read more
Nigerian lawmakers are raising concerns over the planned implementation of the Oronsaye Report by President Bola Tinubu. The House of Representatives, on Thursday, following a joint motion by Kama Nkemkanma (APC, Ebonyi), Olumide Osoba (APC, Ogun), and Jonathan Gaza (SDP, Nasarawa), said there must be a thorough review of the report to connect it to … Read more
Nigeria gained a marginal one point to rank 145 among 180 countries in the new Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday. Its new score of 25 in the 2023 CPI, which is up from the 24 it recorded in the previous ranking, is far below the Sub-Sahara African average of … Read more
The Supreme Court’s failure to release certified true copies of its judgment on Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is a violation of the Nigerian Constitution, Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel to the IPOB leader, has said. The Supreme Court had, on 15 December 2023, ordered a continuation of Mr Kanu’s terrorism … Read more
