Tag: National Conference
Confab panel approves part-time unicameral legislature
The National Conference Committee of Political Restructuring and Forms of Government has approved a part-time unicameral legislature for the country…
Confab: Committee deadlocked over resource control
The National Conference Committee on Devolution of Power, after an extensive debate on Tuesday in Abuja, could not reach an…
Confab can’t agree on revenue sharing based on derivation
The National Conference Committee on Devolution of Power after an extensive debate on Tuesday could not reach an agreement on…
National Confab Loses Another Delegate
The National Conference sitting in Abuja was on Monday hit by another sad news of the death of a delegate,…
Confab proposes new revenue sharing formula
A new revenue sharing formula was on Monday proposed by the Committee on Devolution of Power at the on-going National…
National Confab: Face security issues, says Okorocha
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo has called on delegates at the national conference to concentrate on matters that will improve…
National Confab receives memorandum for creation of Ogoja, Yemen states
. Ijebu, Ogoja old provinces not full states yet in Nigeria There were twenty four provinces in Nigeria, before independence.…
No time extension for Confab
The secretariat of the National Conference has refuted reports indicating that the Federal Government has extended its duration by six…
Confab creates role for states in mineral exploration
After four days of debate and disagreement, the Committee on Devolution of Power at the on-going National Conference, on Wednesday,…
Confab extended by six weeks
The Federal Government has approved a six weeks extension for the national conference, according to the new work plan for…
Nigeria needs Community- Based Police
By Nwike (S) Ojukwu The National Conference Committee on Devolution of Power rejected the establishment of state police and ipso…
Confab committee guns down state police
Arguments upon arguments; motions upon motions is what can best describe the process that led to another adjournment on Monday…
Confab committees collate reports for submission
Members favour creation of state police, national Guard, and federal constitution with councils no longer recognised as third tier of…
National Confab committees’ change venue, as deliberation commence
The National Conference Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi (retd.), has announced a change of venue for some of the confab’s standing…
Confab dissolves into 20 Committees
The plenary session of the National Conference in Abuja drew to a temporary close on Thursday as delegates get set…
Confab Ends Plenary Session, breaks for Easter
Chairman of the 2014 National Conference and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, retired Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, GCON, on Wednesday…
Confab delegate hospitalised
A member of the National Conference, Mr Abdulmumuni Abubakar, slumped after the afternoon session and was admitted at a hospital…
Confab delegates condemn kidnap of 100 school girls
Delegates at the National Conference have condemned the kidnap of over 100 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno state. The…
Confab delegates end debate of Jonathan’s speech
Insecurity, corruption, women’s right and the rights of minorities took the centre-stage on Thursday as delegates to the 2014 National…
Osoba pushes for return to regionalism at confab
.What Mike Ozekhome, other delegates said on Wednesday at the Abuja National Conference The call for restructuring of Nigeria into…
Delegates harp on true federalism, restructuring of Nigeria
Issues bordering on corruption, unemployment, restructuring of the country into federating units, economic development and national security topped deliberation on…
Mimiko canvasses for right to own weapons
Professor Olufemi Mimiko, the Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University and a delegate at the ongoing national conference has recommended…
‘God not an ethnic, religious bigot’, says Nurudeen Lemu
Nurudeen Lemu, the son of prominent Islamic cleric, Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, a former Grand Khadi of Niger State and…
National Confab: Corruption, insecurity top debate
Here is a summary of the discussions at the National Conference on Thursday 3 April As the debate on President…
Delegates protest at the National Conference
Some delegates at the ongoing National Conference have protested the decision of their principal officers to withdraw the power of…
Court adjourns suit to stop National Conference
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday fixed 8 May for hearing in a suit filed by a constitutional…
Hamma Misau, confab’s sleeping delegate dies
Retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, and a Bauchi State delegate to the ongoing national conference, Alhaji Mohammed Hamma Misau…
Sultan leads muslim protest to Jonathan on confab
Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, on Wednesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors in company of…
Nigeria’s Confab adjourns again
The National Conference on Wednesday adjourned plenary till Monday for consultations on the mode of voting. The Chairman of the…
Confab adjourns after heated debate on voting pattern
Nigeria’s National Conference on Tuesday was abruptly adjourned following sharp disagreement among delegates over the mode to be adopted on…