The drama in the Kogi State House of Assembly in North-Central Nigeria may be far from over as the impeached Principal Officers insist that the Speaker, Matthew Kolawole was impeached by 19 lawmakers. The legislators maintain that Kolawole is no longer fit to occupy the seat of the Speaker over alleged financial impropriety, high-handedness, serial…
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Biodun Oyebanji, has been declared the winner of the Saturday’s Ekiti Governorship election. Declaring the winner, Prof. Oyebode Adebowale, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, said Oyebanji polled a total of 187, 057 to win the election. He said that Oyebanji had certified the law…
The Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP), has released help lines for prospective participants who may have challenges in registration for the usually sold-out conference. To ease registration process the Association has created a platform through which interested participants will be assisted with their registration. Thus, participants who need help with their registration are meant to…
Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) yesterday openly disagreed on the need for Nigeria to be restructured and the decentralisation of the police. While Akeredolu called for a compressive restructuring of the federation particularly devolution of…
Nigeria’s Labour Party (LP) has named Doyin Okupe, as the Vice Presidential candidate to the party’s flag bearer Peter Obi, but in a placeholder capacity to beat the Friday deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Okupe stated this on Friday in an interview with Arise TV, adding that his name had been…
African countries must continue to explore various measures to combat climate change, desertification while also addressing food insecurity and poverty across the continent. This is one of the reasons why Nigeria plans to attain net zero by 2060; as its “energy transition plan also focuses on how to creatively transit to net zero emissions and…
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has named Kabiru Masari as his running mate for the 2023 elections. This was made known by a chieftain of the party from Katsina state, Kabiru Faskari, during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday. Faskari explained that picking Kabiru, who hails from Katsina…
Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of Taraba State has cautioned judges that justice should not be for the highest bidder, urging them to be fair in their practice. The governor made the call while swearing in Justice Shuaibu Dahiru Ahmad as new Grand Khadi of the Taraba State Sharia Court of Appeal and Khadi Salau Ismailia…
A former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has drummed support for the Supreme Court to be adequately funded, unless it may soon at best be a glorified High Court. Onnoghen, lamented that justices of the apex court are suffering in silence since 2008, when their salaries and emoluments were last reviewed. The…
Governorship candidates participating in the June 18 election in Ekiti State on Wednesday signed a Peace Accord committing them to free, fair and credible election. The Chairman of National Peace Commission (NPC), and former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, at the occasion, appealed to the people of the state to live up to…