Despite receiving an estimated N9 trillion in Federation Account Allocation Committee inflows in 2025, state governors are facing mounting criticism from labour unions, civil society groups and opposition parties over what many describe as a widening gap between soaring revenues and limited improvements in citizens’ welfare. FAAC allocations t...
•Nigerian lawyers Senior legal practitioners in the country today described the granting of amnesty to terrorists by state governors as an anomaly. In separate interviews with our correspondents, the lawyers maintained that no portion of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, conferred such powers on governors, reports Vanguard. They were unanimou...
•Tinubu and Aregbesola Former governor of Osun State tate, Rauf Aregbesola has taken President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government to the cleaner over the insinuation that defection of governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will guarantee their winning the 2027 election. Speaking at the public book launch of Bola Abdullah...
•NNPP National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson The National Publicity Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ladipo Johnson, has described the mass defections of governors and political figures to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as “a shame and a pity.” Johnson, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television last n...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the federal government of marginalising governors, a move it claimed is forcing politicians to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). PDP spokesman Ini Ememobong said this last night on Channels Television. “When you [reference to President Bola Tinubu] win an election with less than 40 ...
•A cross section of worshippers during a Christmas service in Nigeria Nigerians across the 36 states of the country are celebrating Christmas, a period specifically mapped out to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. There is a festive mood across the nation, despite the economic challenges the country is facing. Several churches held Christm...
•Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State Katsina State governor, Malam Dikko Radda, has urged Nigerians to stop blaming state governors alone for the worsening economic hardship in the country, stating that the federal government controls more than half of the country’s monthly federation revenue. The governor, who stated this in an interview wi...
In a last minute effort to forestall a disruption in normal daily business activities and public order today, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, late last night met with leaderships of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). The meeting, called ahead of today’s planned protest by the Organised Labour against insecu...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is taking a firm, unapologetic stance in the face of defections and political turbulence: it will not beg governors to stay, but will extend a hand of outreach. But the party warns that politics is inherently messy, and even actions that are legal can sometimes be morally questionable. National Publicity ...
•Tinubu and Akinyemi Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a nationwide state of emergency on security, proposing a series of extraordinary measures to address the recent surge in violence and kidnappings across the country. In...
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