The Save Nigeria Group (SNG), human rights lawyers and political groups, on Sunday advised the National Assembly not to pass the bill canvassing immunity for the legislators. The lawyers, Messrs. Fred Agbaje and Festus Keyamo, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) and Igbo Youth Congress (IYC) described the bill as provocative. The House of Representatives [...]
National Conscience Party this morning lost in its bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from deregistering some political parties. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos dismissed a suit filed by the party and awarded cost of N16,000 against it. NCP had filed a suit before the court in apprehension that it [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, 26 February, finally signed the long-awaited 2013 budget, after he reportedly reached a truce with members of the National Assembly, following weeks of bickering over the 2013 Appropriation Bill. The budget signing was however done behind closed doors, altering the long tradition of the president performing the exercise before the cameras, [...]
Recent revelations about the degradation and inexcusable neglect of the Nigerian Police College, Ikeja, Lagos, is, undeniably, a subset of the larger manifestation of leadership failure and misrule that has continued to assail the country’s developmental capacities. The rot in the college, like other paramilitary and military barracks across the country, is no less a [...]
TOKUNBO OLAJIDE Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, finally signed the 2013 Appropriation Bill into law, ending weeks of stand-off between the Executive arm and the National Assembly over the budget estimates. A statement released, Tuesday evening, by the presidency said President Jonathan appended his signature to the contentious budget after the executive reached a truce [...]
Seventeen employees curiously booted out of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, after training and receiving salaries, cry for justice At least, going by the usually well ironed uniforms of its officials, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, presents an outward appearance of an organisation concerned with its public image. Contrary to [...]
Senator Babafemi Ojudu tells AYORINDE OLUOKUN and DESMOND UTOMWEN about his frustration as a legislator and why Nigeria finds it difficult to make progress You’ve been at the National Assembly for over a year. What has been your experience, especially in terms of perception as a journalist and now as a lawmaker? For me, it [...]
