Tag: National Conference
Confab in stormy session over rules of procedure
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja After hours of stormy session devoted to considerations and arguments over rule of procedure that will guide the…
Someone failed to include me on list of delegates
Nwike Ojukwu As the 492 delegates to the National Conference get down to work, it is pertinent to revisit the…
National Conference adjourns
After its first day of sitting dedicated to questions from delegates on procedural, sitting arrangements, logistics and similar issues, the…
Agbakoba rejects National Conference allowances
Chief Olisa Agbakoba,(SAN) a former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association and a rights activist on Tuesday rejected the…
Jonathan declares open conference on Nigeria’s future
.President denies nursing personal agenda President Goodluck Jonathan at 5.06 p.m today formally flagged open the National Conference, being attended…
Tight security as Jonathan gets set to open confab
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Security has been beefed up around the Federal Capital Territory as delegates to the National Conference which will…
Osoba expresses confidence in confab
Former Governor Olusegun Osoba of Ogun State and an All Progressives Congress chieftain, has expressed confidence in the ability of…
Nwachukwu leads South East delegates to confab
Governors of the South East Zone of Nigeria have appointed retired Major General Ike Nwachukwu as the Chairman of their…
Nigeria shifts take-off of national conference
Nigeria has shifted by a week the inauguration of the National Conference, a talk-shop on the future of Nigeria that…
Osoba leads ex-governors to confab
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Former governor of Ogun State, in western Nigeria and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,…
Justice Kutigi to chair National Conference
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday approved the appointment of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Legbo Kutigi, as the…
Durojaiye leads Ogun state delegates to confab
Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state on Thursday in Abeokuta named six delegates that would represent the state at the…
Nwabueze disqualifies himself from Confab
Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has ruled out attending the proposed National Conference as a delegate. He said he wanted…
Yoruba adopts positions for confab
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Nigeria’s Yoruba ethnic nationality today unanimously adopted its position to be presented at the proposed National Conference and…
General Akinrinade leads Osun delegates to confab
The state of Osun Government in western Nigeria, has nominated Gen. Alani Akinrinade, former Chief of General Staff and Prof.…
Oyebode among Ekiti delegates to confab
Governor Kayode Fayemi of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti has sent names of the State’s delegates for the National…
National Conference: Time To Forge Ahead
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje Since the announcement of the proposed convocation of a national conference by President Jonathan Goodluck there…
Confab: Yoruba groups agree on agenda, delegates
The Yoruba Assembly on National Conference on Monday approved the final agenda to be presented by the ethnic bloc at…
Activists Remember Beko Kuti
Kazeem Ugbodaga Eight years after his demise, human rights activists in Nigeria have remembered the works of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti…
Confab: Nigeria’s Ifa devotees want 3 seats
Adherents of African indigenous religions in Nigeria on Sunday protested over their exclusion from the proposed national conference scheduled to…
Confab: Yoruba group sidelines Tinubu, APC leaders
Former Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said he did not…
National Conference: Making The Most Of An Imperfect Situation
By Daniel Onwe Over the years, there has been the clamour for a national conference or dialogue or discourse, whether…
Council rubber stamps Jonathan’s national confab, centenary fiesta
Nigeria’s Council of State has rubber stamped President Goodluck Jonathan’s N7billion talk shop, the proposed national conference and assured maximum…
Governor Elechi recants opposition to national dialogue
Gov. Martins Elechi of the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi on Friday restated his support for the proposed Federal Government’s…
Confab Holds Early Next Year —Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday that all necessary preparations are being made to ensure that the proposed national conference…
Jonathan Should Not Dump Our Report
Senator Femi Okurounmu, Chairman, Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, in this interview with AYORINDE OLUOKUN, speaks about the work of…
National conference ill timed,says Kwara Speaker
Stephen Oni/Ilorin The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Abdulrazak Atunwa, has advised Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to suspend the…
Jonathan’s South-South Stealing Nigeria Blind
Alhaji Isa Lawal Kaita, a Second Republic governor of Kaduna State and founding member of the People’s Democratic Forum, gives…
Northern Nigeria ready for national confab, says Aliyu
The Governor of the central Nigerian state of Niger, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu, on Saturday said the North is ready for…
National Confab: Groups make submissions to advisory panel
The Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue will treat all memoranda submitted to it, the Chairman, Sen. Femi Okunronmu, has…