The Senate has resolved to henceforth engage donor agencies that give humanitarian assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the country to make commitments to accountability on their donations. It said it would do this through the National Planning Commission ...
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You can’t shut Edo Assembly, Obaseki dares Reps, court refuses pro-Oshiomhole lawmakers access to complex
The Edo Government has insisted that the House of Representatives lacked the constitutional powers to shut the state House of Assembly. The Governor Godwin Obaseki administration was responding to a resolution of the lower chamber of the National Assembly ordering ...
Read More »Senate tasks govt on extension of nation’s continental shelf as court orders Switzerland to issue Nigeria $14m bond
The Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to redouble efforts towards extending the nation’s continental shelf. Citing Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Nigeria, had in May 2009, written ...
Read More »Nigeria risks being dumping ground over AfCFTA pact, NECA warns
The Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has cautioned that Nigeria risks being a dumping ground with President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Director General of NECA, Timothy Olawale who spoke to journalists after ...
Read More »Surrender or be forced to comply, army tells Boko Haram fighters
General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-Gen. Abdulmalik Biu has urged Boko Haram fighters to either lay down their arms or be forced to comply to end insurgency. He stressed that their surrender, was to save ...
Read More »House of Reps committee submits report on Bauchi assembly, assures of justice
The House of Representatives Committee set up to resolve the crisis in the Bauchi State House of Assembly has concluded its investigation and vowed to ensure that justice is done on the complaints from across the state. Headed by Musa ...
Read More »Rivers considers fresh security architecture over CPs’ high turnover
Citing the frequent change of commissioners of police, the Rivers government is to launch fresh comprehensive security architecture to enhance security in the state. Governor Nyesom Wike dropped the hint while receiving the new Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, at ...
Read More »House of Representatives orders Obaseki to reconstitute Edo Assembly as Benin monarch takes crisis to God, ancestors
The House of Representatives yesterday gave Governor Godwin Obaseki one week to issue a fresh proclamation for the reconstitution of the Edo State House of Assembly in deference to Section 105 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). It asked ...
Read More »Civil society organisations seek cancellation of drug laws in Nigeria
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have advocated the repeal of drug laws in Nigeria, which according to them, do not take into cognisance the health and human rights of people who use drugs. They stated this at a stakeholders’ roundtable on ...
Read More »Fashola pushes for public-private investment in nation’s infrastructure development
Immediate past Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has canvassed public and private participation in funding infrastructure in the country. Speaking at the launch of ‘Frontier Capital Markets and Investment Banking: Principles and Practice from Nigeria’, a book ...
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