•PDP governors The crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party deepened on Tuesday as governors elected on the party’s platform rejected moves by an Nyesom Wike-backed caretaker committee to reschedule the party’s national convention and dissolve key zonal structures, arguing that the faction lacked the constitutional authority to take such dec...
•Nigerian Senate Some Senators have raised the alarm over what they described as a paucity of funds, which has adversely affected the functioning of standing committees and the implementation of budgets. Senators cried out today during a meeting between Senator Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Ogun West), who led the Senate Committee on Appropriations,...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has empanelled four committees to investigate petitions against about 27 judges on issues relating to allegations of misconduct. The NJC at its meeting between August 14 and 15 also elected to discard petitions written against the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, the Chief Jud...
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of local government caretaker committees in 20 states of the federation following Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment that outlawed their existence. In the landmark judgment, the apex court granted local governments both administrative and fiscal autonomies, declaring that they can only be governed by democraticall...
•Governors Most states have resorted to governing the local governments through caretaker committees set up by the state government. This is contrary to Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guarantees the system of local government by democratically elected officials, reports The Nation. Caretaker committees have become a pre...
•Audu Ogbe Former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, has urged the federal government to stop the payment of monthly allocations to states whose governors set up caretaker committees for Local Government (LG) administrations. “Any governor who sets up a caretaker committee should not receive any funds because a caretaker is illegal, by the S...
•The Nigerian Senate Determined to pass the N27.5trillion 2024 Appropriation Bill before the end of this month, the Joint National Assembly Committee on Appropriations has given a 48-hour deadline to all sub-committees to submit their reports on the 2024 budget. Recall that President Bola Tinubu had last month, presented to the joint session o...
To stave off embarrassment by its chieftains and business moguls who have taken a position not to serve in its Standing Committees, the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee has decided to suspend the inauguration of Standing Committees on Finance, Publicity, Intergovernmental, Conflict and Resolutions. National Publicity Secret...
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