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, unapoloÂgetic stance in the face of defecÂtions and political turbulence: it will not beg governors to stay, but will extend a hand of outreach. But the party warns that poliÂtics is inherently messy, and even actions that are legal can someÂtimes 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...
•Nasir El-Rufai Former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i, has said that while governors from the PeoÂples Democratic Party (PDP) are defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians are deÂfecting to the African Democratic Congress (ADC). El-Rufa’i assured that the wave of defection by governors will not stop Nigerians f...
•Nigerian Senate chamber The Senate has commenced a comprehensive investigation into stamp duty collections reportedly amounting to several trillions of naira, seeking full disclosure from commercial banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and state governments. Chairman of the Senate Public Account...
•Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike The battle for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new twist on Monday in Abuja when loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, forcefully took over the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in the absence of governors elected on the party’...
•Tinubu Concerns are deepening that Nigeria may be drifting towards a one-party state as the once-dominant Peoples Democratic Party struggles to retain its few remaining strongholds following a wave of defections by its governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Four PDP governors in the North are considering switching to the APC ahead...
•Nigeria Governors’ Forum The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has pledged its full support for the bill seeking reserved seats for women in Nigeria’s legislature. In a statement issued at the end of their meeting in the early hours of today, the governors urged members to actively lobby both federal and state lawmakers to ensure the...
•Incarcerated IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu Governors, ministers and former military chiefs are among notable personalities listed as witnesses by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu as witnesses in his terrorism case. The IPOB leader, whose no-case submission was dismissed by Justice James Omotosho, is due to open his defence on ...
•Nigeria Governors’ Forum The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given NigeÂria’s 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, seven day to urgentÂly make public how they have spent the estimated N14 trillion fuel subsidy savings received through FAAC allocations. The organisation...
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