The Senate would this week meet to review the six-week ultimatum it gave President Muhammadu Buhari to end insecurity or be impeached. The upper legislative chamber billed to resume on Tuesday from the end of session recess, will sit as a whole to consider the security situation in the country since it gave the ultimatum
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Members of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Parliament have expressed deep concern over the unequal treatment of religious matters in political decisions by the government of various countries in West Africa. The parliament, therefore, called on political and religious leaders from member-states to ensure equity in the treatment of different religions existing
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Jigawa State House of Assembly has set up a fact-finding committee over the recent gas explosion in Babura local Government. Speaker of the House, Idris Garba Jahun, announced this during Friday’s plenary session. He said the Committee is to investigate the causes of the explosion and the extent of damages in Babura town. The committee
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the recent attempt on the life of the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Bauchi state Governor on Christian Religious Affairs, Pastor Zakka Magaji by unknown gunmen. The Chairman of CAN in the State, Reverend Abraham Damina Dimeus, condemned that attack on Friday when he led officials of
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A public commentator in Zamfara State, Alhaji Ahmed Bakare, has lamented that the state government’s continued distribution of food items and other essential commodities as welfare packages to less privileged indigenes would not end banditry activities in the state. Bakare said the government should rather focus on designing a formidable strategy toward ending insecurity. “If
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The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, said on Wednesday that over 400 out of 541 Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies are to be scrapped as recommended by Stephen Orosanye-led Presidential Committee on agencies’ rationalisation. Olamilekan, who made the declaration on the second day of the ongoing interface between the
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, said his administration has done “extremely well” considering the limited resources available to it. The President made this claim during a stakeholders’ meeting at the Imo State Government House in Owerri, the state capital, after inaugurating the Owerri-Orlu Road, phase one of the Owerri-Okigwe Road and the state House of
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) has called for the immediate arrest of the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, (SAN) for making what the group described as an incendiary, very dangerous, toxic and absolutely unthinkable statement that the Labour Party’s presidential candidate Mr. Peter Obi was plotting a fake attempted assassination against
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Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice have prayed to a Federal High Court in Abuja to strike out an application filed by David Ukpo, asking the court to set aside its orders made on July 1 and July 6. Recall that Ukpo, the kidney donor, through his lawyer, Bamidele
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Ahead the 2023 general elections, the acting Corps Marshall of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Dauda Biu has urged operatives to maintain political neutrality. The warning was contained in a press release signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem dated 12 September, 2022 made available to journalists on Monday. The statement reads “As political
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In Senegal, he will also attend the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) LAGOS: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-13 and Dakar, Senegal, September 14-15, where he will engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the
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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Monday, urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to probe the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, over violent and inciting statements. The governor was captured on video where he appeared to have used some inciting words against his political opponents in the state which has become
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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has asked the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to disclose the status of payment of license fees by all broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria. It urged the commission to make public the amount of indebtedness of each of the stations owing license fees. The demand was made via a statement
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Workers in the Aviation workers are currently protesting in Lagos, just as their counterparts are protesting in other parts of the country. The unions in the aviation sector had directed their members to “embark on peaceful rallies/public demonstrations at all airports in Nigeria to demand the expunging of obnoxious Essential Service clauses from the Bills/Acts
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The former Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Dare Kadiri, has asked the embattled Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo, to seek forgiveness from God over alleged infractions going on in the Assembly rather than blaming him for his travails. Kadiri, who was reacting to a statement
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