•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved an extensive census of schools in Nigeria from primary to tertiary level, their conditions and live-in facilities, proximity to one another, and educational infrastructure among other data points. The stocktake would also include ascertaining the number of all teachers in Nigeria, their qualifications...
•Segun Arinze and Stan Nze Afamefuna: The Nwa Boi Story, which boasts as the first feature-length film on the Igbo apprenticeship system landed on Netflix yesterday, Friday, March 29, 2024. The significance of Afamefuna: The Nwa Boi Story film is the revitalisation of a community’s economy by allowing successful Igbo men to pass on their [&hel...
Obaship system in Ibadan Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State in the Southwestern part of Nigeria is an ancient Yorùbá city founded by warriors. But unlike other Yorùbá towns and villages, Ibadan has an age-long unique obaship system, reports Saturday Tribune. Maybe not totally strange, but Ibadan has further validated the state as a [&hellip...
•Onaiyekan His Eminence, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has said that it’s time for Nigeria to change to a system of government that would reduce corruption and bring government closer to the people. The Emeritus Catholic Bishop of Abuja stated this at a policy dialogue on a new governance structure for Nigeria, organised by the Abuja School [&helli...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has agreed to collaborate with a group of House of Representatives members pushing for a return to the parliamentary system. The 60 federal lawmakers, led by Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, had met with the ACF yesterday with the aim of garnering support for their proposed legislation transitioning from the...
•Agbakoba Former President of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, speaks to a number of issues plaguing the nation, asking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to shake up the polity with more tough decisions, this time aimed at cutting down cost of governance. He says Tinubu should kick out 38 ministers, aides and other […]
The pan socio-political organisation, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), has said that the transition of the parliamentary system as proposed by 60 House of Representatives members should take off in 2027 and not 2031. According to the organisation, the speculation in some quarters that the transition should be done in 2031 when President Bola Tinubu...
•Dantata Elder statesman Alhaji Aminu Dantata has thrown his weight behind the move to transition from a presidential system of government to a parliamentary system. Dantata, while speaking on the development today, said the parliamentary system is better than the presidential system of government because it is cheaper, reports Vanguard. The n...
•Abdullahi Ganduje Politicians are the “biggest problem” with the way the nation’s elections are conducted, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has said. Ganduje stated this yesterday while receiving the director of election and party monitoring for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INE...
Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Plateau State chapter, Izang Aware, has said that Nigerians have lost confidence in the legal system in the country. He said that there’s therefore the need for introspection by legal practitioners to make the profession responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of the common man as their last ...