Ondo State Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has congratulated Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka on his 90th birthday anniversary, describing him as a global icon and a Nigerian patriot of the highest standard. This was in a statement on Saturday by his spokesman, Prince Ebenezer Adeniyan. The Governor, fond of Soyinka’s multiple literary works, said the […]
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An American-based Professor of Medicine, philanthropist, and President of Public Policy Advocacy and Research Council (PPARC) Prof. Emeka Umerah, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment which ordered that federal allocations should henceforth be paid directly to the nation’s 774 Local Governments rather than through state governments. In a statement signed on Sunday on behalf of […]
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Ondo State Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has urged the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to give priority to projects that will meet the peculiar needs of each of the oil-producing States in the country. He said implementing generic policies and initiatives without putting into consideration the peculiar challenges and comparative advantages of […]
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Resurgence of suicide attacks political — Middle Belt Forum Until last Saturday, the country had forgotten that suicide bombers once held the northern part of the country hostage. For some years, suicide bombing was almost a daily occurrence as terrorists carried out suicide attacks using women and children even as the military continued to engage […]
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Rescue workers gather next to heavy machinery at the site of a school that collapsed earlier in Jos, on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Muhammad Tanko Shittu / AFP) President Bola Tinubu has sympathised with the victims of the Plateau building collapse over the incident he labeled as a “huge loss to the nation”. About […]
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By Mike Ozekhome, SAN The Supreme Court judgment today, July 11, 2024, directing the Federal Government to pay allocations due to Local Government Areas directly to their account thereby abolishing the old practices of State-Local Government Joint Account, is timely and courageous. What the judgment has done is more like interpreting section 162 of the […]
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Four female students from Jacob’s Well High School International, a Port Harcourt based private school who developed an android application named AgriConnect, are to attend this year’s World Technovation Girls Challenge at the Silicon Valley, California, United States of America. Their winning android application was developed to deal with hunger issues in the country. They […]
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A former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has faulted the Supreme Court verdict on the financial autonomy of the 774 LGAs in the country. On Thursday, the Supreme Court declared that the federal government should henceforth pay allocations directly to local government councils from the federation account. The seven-member panel of justices held that […]
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Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, and Kwara State Governor AbdulRazal AbdulRahman Most states have resorted to governing the local governments through caretaker committees set up by the State Government. This contradicts Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees the local government system by democratically elected officials. But caretaker committees have […]
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Governors are comfortable with the Supreme Court judgment that granted fiscal autonomy to local governments, according to the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Kwara, AbdulRazaq AbdulRahman. He told correspondents on Friday before a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that the ruling has relieved the governors […]
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