•Anyaoku, Obasanjo, Gowon, Jonathan Former Nigeria leaders and other top dignitaries will on Monday, March 18 gather in Lagos for a National Dialogue to commemorate 10 years anniversary of the 2014 National Confab in honour of late Prof Ben Nwabueze SAN. A press statement made available to The Frontier today by the organisers under the [&helli...
•Anyaoku All is set for a national dialogue to commemorate 10 years anniversary of the 2014 National Confab and to set a popular agenda for the constitution review process of the federal government. The dialogue organised in honour of the late Prof Ben Nwabueze SAN, CON, is scheduled to hold next week Monday, March 18, […]
•Women call for constitutionalisation of the right to abortion in a rally French lawmakers are expected today to anchor the right to abortion in the country’s constitution, in a global first that has garnered overwhelming public support. A congress of both houses of parliament in Versailles starting at 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) should find the [&hell...
•Obasa In response to the growing threats of kidnapping and other forms of insecurity in Nigeria, the Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the National Assembly to commence urgent constitutional amendment to allow for the creation of state police. At a plenary session today presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, [&helli...
•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•Falana and Tinubu Amid the controversy trailing the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis rocking Rivers State, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has said that the President cannot reinstate 27 cross carpeting members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. In a statement yesterday, Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), sai...
•Security Forces exchange gunfire in Guinea-Bissau The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) today condemned the violence that erupted in Guinea Bissau in the early hours of yesterday. The condemnation was contained in a statement issued by the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. It stated that the community learnt with deep preoccupation...