First daughter of the Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Stephanie Ebidenere Diri and her spouse, Ballad Tamaradoubra Agbeyei, were yesterday joined in matrimony at the state headquarters of the Royal House of Grace International Church in Yenagoa. The glamorous event had in attendance former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, Governor...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu today urged state governors to stop building flyovers in areas with low traffic and instead channel their significantly enhanced federal allocations into road networks that would improve living standards and give security agencies better access to remote areas. He noted that states were now receiving four to five ...
•Late Buhari and wife Aisha Vice President Kashim Shettima, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, state governors, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, are among the dignitaries attending the one-year remembrance ceremony in honour of former President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. Also present at the event are members of Buhari...
•Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State Oyo State governor and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) presidential candidate for the 2027 election, Seyi Makinde, has lamented that state governors are routinely blamed for insecurity despite lacking constitutional authority to direct security agencies operating in their states. Makinde made the remarks durin...
•Nigerian Senate There are discordant tunes over the establishment of state police, with some citing likely abuse by state governors, while others welcome the development as a panacea for insecurity in Nigeria. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central) cautioned against the abuse of the initiative by state governments, insisting that any ...
•President of the Nigeria Medical Association, Prof. Afekhide Omoti Medical doctors have called for the public ranking of governors and states based on health outcomes, saying such a system would promote accountability and encourage greater investment in healthcare delivery. The physicians argued that assessing state governments using indicato...
•Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) The Senate has outlined a series of safeguards aimed at preventing state governors from abusing state police powers as the Red Chamber passed constitutional amendments to establish decentralised policing across Nigeria. The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, disclosed the measures while leading debate on th...
•Tinubu, Nigerian Senate and Police The Senate today passed the landmark Constitution Alteration Bill seeking to establish state police across the federation, marking a major step in Nigeria’s decades-long debate over decentralising the country’s policing structure to address worsening insecurity. The passage followed a rigorous clause-by-clau...
•Police State governors are seeking greater constitutional authority over security operations within their domains and guaranteed funding arrangements for the proposed State Police Services, according to a report of a high-level strategic meeting involving state Attorneys-General, legal experts and senior security officials convened by the Nig...
No fewer than four state governments have set up their own airlines in the last seven years, spending an estimated N500 billion in the carriers’ set-up and fleet acquisition. Apart from the four states, at least three others – Ogun, Anambra and Lagos – are at different stages of establishing their own carriers, with a […]
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