The Senate on Tuesday suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yaya Tongo, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess […]
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President Bola Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has transmitted a Constitution Alteration Bill seeking the establishment of state police to the Senate. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, made this known during Tuesday’s plenary, adding that the Senate will consider the constitutional amendment bill on Wednesday (tomorrow). Akpabio also announced that the states have promised to consider […]
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By John Dike, Osogbo Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Akogun Kamorudeen Lere Oyewumi, has dismissed allegations by the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) linking him to violent incidents in the state, describing the claims as false, malicious and politically motivated. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the senator’s media office insisted […]
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By John Dike, Osogbo A pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, the Defence for Yoruba People’s Rights (DYPR), has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tunde Disu, to redeploy Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Gotan, as part of measures to curb the persistent wave of political violence and killings in the state. The group, which […]
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By Ifeanyi Igwebike Mbanefo Nigeria does not need another electoral reform bill to correct every flaw in its democracy. What it needs now is the disciplined use of the legal tools already embedded in the Electoral Act, the Constitution, and the courts’ remedial powers. The uncomfortable fact is that Nigeria’s turnout crisis is not merely […]
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Death toll in Plateau attack rises to 22, health workers among victims More soldiers deployed as search for abducted Oyo students, teachers intensifies Presidential aides, Bayo Onanuga, Dada Olusegun, and House of Representatives member, Philip Agbese, have separately dismissed calls for President Bola Tinubu’s resignation, made respectively by the presidential candidate […]
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Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has commended a former Housing and Urban Development Minister, Chief (Mrs.) Alice Mobolaji Osomo, for her outstanding public service. Eulogizing her on the occasion of her 90th birthday, he described her as a symbol of excellence, integrity and selfless service. The governor, in a congratulatory message, said Mrs Osomo’s life […]
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President Bola Tinubu. Photo: State House THE National Assembly’s decision to extend, for a third time, the implementation of the capital component of the 2025 Appropriation Act, from June 30 to September 30, 2026, is yet another symptom of the chaos that has come to define Nigeria’s budget cycles under the Bola Tinubu administration. Nigeria’s […]
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Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Northern Elders Forum have warned that Nigeria risks sliding into anarchy if the Federal Government fails to rein in Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, over his reported ultimatum to Fulani leaders in Oyo State following the abduction of a […]
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State governors are seeking greater constitutional authority over security operations within their domains and guaranteed funding arrangements for the proposed State Police Services, according to a report of a high-level strategic meeting involving state Attorneys-General, legal experts and senior security officials convened by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat in Abuja last week. The report, contained […]
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