State Police appears to be on the way to becoming a reality after President Bola Tinubu and state governors agreed to work on the modalities to establish it. But the clearest indication yet that the quest may translate into reality is a ‘Bill for an Act to Alter the Provisions of the Constitution of the […]
•Oniha In the first six months after taking office, 13 new state governors collectively borrowed N226.8bn from domestic and external financiers. This emerged as findings showed that 16 state governors also increased the debt profile of their states by N509.3bn with domestic and external debt of N243.95bn and $298.5m (N265.37bn), respectively, ...
A former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, Atiku Abubakar; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen; governors, and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), have joined other leaders to call for love, unity and hope as the country celebrates Easter today. In ...
•Policemen Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State says governors will demand the review of the current revenue allocation formula once state police is adopted. The governor of the North Central state last night said funding would be an issue for governors to pursue the adoption and implementation of state police, reports Channels TV. Sule a...
Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, South west governors, General Alani Akinrinade, traditional rulers and other distinguished personalities are expected at the Renewed Hope Agenda summit scheduled to hold in Ibadan on Monday. The summit which is packaged by the Yoruba Patriots’ Movement and Coalition of several Civil Society Organi...
•Nigerian Governors Forum Following the order by President Bola TÃnubu for the full implementation of the Oronsaye report, especially as it pertains to cutting down the cost of governance, the state governors are under pressure to toe the same line. The pressure is coming from Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, who have challenged the state go...
•Akpabio Governors yesterday denied a claim by Senate President Godswill Akpabio that the federal government disbursed N1.08trillion to states to address the food crisis in the country. During the inauguration of the renovated central mosque in the Iseyin area of Oyo State yesterday, the state governor, Seyi Makinde, said as the Vice-Chairman ...
•Some Nigerian governors A bill seeking the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to empower governors to appoint state commissioners of police scaled second reading on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. In the alteration to the constitution under consideration, a commissioner of police appointed from among the serving policemen...
•Tinubu and PDP logo The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, yesterday said President Bola Tinubu will not resign under any guise. He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors should perish the thought of resignation by the president, reports The Nation. The minister described the governors’ call as a dist...
•Tinubu and PDP logo Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have advised President Bola Tinubu to throw in the towel if he cannot provide a sustainable solution to the problems plaguing the nation. The PDP governors who gave the advice in a statement at the weekend reminded the All Progressives […]