•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Constitution Review has concluded its two-day retreat on the amendments to the 1999 constitution in Kano and agreed to include full autonomy for local governments in the country’s legal document. The federal lawmakers, however, expressed divergent views on the issue of state police, reports Daily Trust....
•Nigerian Senate Southern and Northern Senators yesterday disagreed over the agitation for the reintroduction of a regional form of government in Nigeria. The Senators spoke sidelines of the ongoing two-day retreat of the Senate Adhoc Committee on Constitution Review in collaboration with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in Kano, re...
•Elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark Niger Delta leader, Chief Edwin Clark has warned the president of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio not to allow anti-democratic forces to hijack the National Assembly in the planned review of the country’s constitution. The former national commissioner said groups are mobilising to hijack various debates aimed at...

