A member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Joshua Gana (PDP-Niger), says the 10th Assembly would not be a ‘rubber stamp’ legislature for the Executive. Gana made this known in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony in Abuja. Representing Lavun, Mokwa and Edati Federal Constituency of Niger, he said Nigerians […]
A Civil Society Organisation, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) say labour movement in the recent democratic era has been overtaken by the political class in Nigeria. CISLAC Programme Manager, Mr Okeke Anya, spoke in commemoration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day, observed on Monday in Lagos. Anya said the labour movement no longer engaged governments as […]
Fellow Nigerians, 2. It is exactly three decades today since Nigerians went to the polls to exercise their inalienable right to elect a President of their choice to lead the transition from military dictatorship to a representative government of the people. 3. The abortion, by military fiat, of the decisive victory of Chief Moshood Kashimawo […]
Judges of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Saturday, viewed the first video evidence presented before them by Mr Peter Obi and his Labour Party. Obi and his LP are, in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023, challenging the election that brought President Bola Ahmed Tinubu into power. Respondents are Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President […]
By Oluwashina Iyanda Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (JANDOR) has criticised Lagos State House of Assembly on plans to enact laws that favour only Yoruba indigenes in matters of property and business acquisition. The NewsZenith reports that Adediran is the Lagos PDP governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections. His criticism is contained in a statement issued […]
The upper chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate has shifted its valedictory session, earlier scheduled to hold today, to Saturday, June 10. Dr Ahmad Lawan, the President of the Senate, announced the postponement at the plenary on Tuesday. Lawal had earlier announced on Tuesday at plenary that the senate would hold its valedictory session […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke It is generally believed that democracy is the best form of government as it is the expression of popular will. Taken altogether, it will seem that where the public good is the overriding or overwhelming consideration for democratic choice, it would not lead to rancour, but popular acceptance. The winner will absorb, aggregate […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke As a former staff of the defunct National Concord, the influential newspaper published by the Late MKO Abiola between 1980 and 2000, I know quite a number of media professionals close to the new Nigerian president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, especially since the mid-1990s. From National Concord, he picked two of my […]
The Oyo State Governorship Election Tribunal has dismissed the petition of the Action Alliance (AA) against Gov. Seyi Makinde of PDP. The Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Friday, also awarded N600,000 against the petitioner, AA governorship candidate, Babatunde Ajala. Ajala had prayed the tribunal to order a re-run of the state governorship election, in which […]
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Friday in Abuja, approved new appointments into his cabinet, days after his inauguration. The President announced the appointment during the meeting with Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) at the Presidential villa in Abuja. Femi Gbajabiamila, Speaker of the House of Representative, is the new Chief of Staff to the President. The […]