•Marwa and governors wives The Nigeria Governors Spouses Forum (NGSF), has called on the federal and state governments to declare state of emergency on substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Nigeria with a view to mobilising resources to tackling the pandemic. The call was one of the resolutions in a communique signed by Chairperson [...
•House of Reps A bill for an Act seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to change the educational qualification for elections into certain political offices, has been stepped down by the leave of the House of Representatives. Standing in the name of Adewunmi Onanuga, the proposed legislation aimed at pegging minimum qualification for elections...
•Gov Bala Mohammed The People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF), has decried the rising cost of living in Nigeria saying the nation is sliding down the road of Vanezuela’s economic turmoil under President Bola Tinubu’s watch. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, said this in an interview with newsmen sho...
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are meeting at the Oyo State Governor’s lodge in Abuja. Although the agenda for the meeting is unknown at this time, the governors are likely going discuss issues relating to security, and the forthcoming off-season elections in Edo and Ondo states. Already in attendance [...
•Some Nigerian governors The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has met with the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu to address the security situation in the country as well as the rising cost of food items. During the meeting that had a representative of the Department of State Services (DSS), the governors agreed to support the NSA […]...
•Tinubu and Ajaero The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, says most governors of the 37-Member Tripartite Committee On Minimum Wage are guilty of not complying with the proposed base pay structure. Vice President Kashim Shettima had inaugurated the committee in Abuja earlier yesterday, saying the decision was aimed at ...
In a bid to combat the rising cases of insecurity in the South-West states, the six governors in the region have commenced discussions with President Bola Tinubu-led federal government on the need for the Amotekun corps to be allowed to carry sophisticated arms. The Ekiti State governor, Biodun Oyebanji, who disclosed this yesterday during a [...
•Akinlade Olutunji The National President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Akinlade Olutunji, has said that no state governor in Nigeria has the legal right to ban mining activities in their states. He said that the mining act is found in the executive list and under the control of the federal government, reports Daily […...
•Governor Ahmed Aliyu The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Ahmed Aliyu as Sokoto State governor. Reading the lead judgment, Justice Tijani Abubakar dismissed the appeal by the PDP and its governorship candidate, Saidu Umar, agreeing with the reasoning of the court below. … developing story
•Supreme Court Five governors will today know if they will remain in office or exit as their states’ chief executives. The governors, whose fates are to be determined by the Supreme Court, are Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta), Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Nasir Idris (Kebbi) and Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa). The Supreme Court’s schedule s...

