Ahead of politicking for Speakership in the 10th House of Representatives, Plateau lawmaker is speculated to be nursing interest in the top job READ ALSO: Reps Bagos, Mwadkwon, Gagdi, Deputy Speaker atop Plateau National Assembly Scorecard With winners declared for about 325 out of 360 House of Representatives seats already declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), attention is beginning to shift towards the race for the leadership of the 10th...
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There’s need to look a little beyond the populism driving the candidacy of the APC gubernatorial candidate in Benue State, writes Sesugh Akume If the trend as seen from last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly continues, in another week Benue will be voting Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia by a landslide as governor. Except the miraculous happens, the election next Saturday seems a mere formality. The people love Fr Alia, as he has been in their...
#FixPolitics expresses grave concern about the upload of results by INEC and declaration of a winner for the 2023 Presidential elections
The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development has restated the need for a more transparent, accountable and people-oriented parliaments across the African continent. Director of Strategy at the Centre, Itia Otabor, made the call on Thursday, in Abuja, at a Capacity Building Workshop for Media and Civil Society Partners on ‘Open Parliament Index (OPI),’ a project being implemented by the Nigerian Network of Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations. OrderPaper Advocacy Initiative, Nigeria’s preeminent...
The obidient movement is the most defining factor in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election but can it secure victory for Mr. Peter Obi and turn the tide for a people seeking liberation from successive failed leadership?
Youth Advocate, Michael Olaogun bares his thought on the 'power of the youth' in this electoral cycle and concerns about the future of Nigeria's youth in politics post-2023
The earthquakes in Turkey-Syria and Zelenskyy's visit to London are two parallel events with paradoxical themes which shaped world discourse this week
With the tenure expiration of the Ninth National Assembly just about four months away, we examine the appropriation of N30.173 billion as severance package for the lawmakers and sundry provisions Severance packages refer to pay and benefits given to employees who leave employment at an organisation unwilfully. Typically, such packages are instituted to help protect the newly unemployed and are offered to employees who are laid off or retire. However, they...
The echoes of Tyre Nichol's brutal killing by police in Memphis raises a new perspective to the racial equality debate in America just as the workers' winter strikes in the UK revs up wage raise demands and a currency swap programme goes awry in Nigeria
With the power of incumbency, federal might, and many other factors in favour of the APC, can PDP and Dauda Lawal take their 'pound of flesh' from Governor Matawalle on March 11?