Ogun State Government has nullified the ongoing selection process for the vacant Awujale stool, directing the Fusengbuwa ruling house to recommence the exercise in line with extant laws. Vice Chairman of the Fusengbuwa ruling house, Prof. Fassy Yusuf, confirmed the development, explaining that the decision followed a meeting convened by the state government to address…
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Wednesday, dismissed the video of suspected bandits claiming sponsorship by the state government. Speaking while declaring open the Kwara State Police Security Summit in Ilorin on Wednesday, AbdulRazaq dismissed the claim as baseless. “Under no circumstances has the Kwara State Government harboured or provided safe haven to bandits, contrary…
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has dismissed speculation that he plans to defect to the All Progressives Congress, insisting that he remains in the Peoples Democratic Party despite the opposition party’s ongoing leadership challenges. Makinde spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during the public presentation of a book titled ‘Headlines and Soundbites: Media Moments that Defined…
Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers, says there was over N300 billion in the state government account when President Bola Tinubu suspended him due to the emergency rule. In March, President Bola Tinubu imposed an emergency rule in Rivers, and suspended Fubara, Ngozi Odu, his deputy, and the house of assembly for six months. Speaking on…
The House of Representatives has stepped down consideration of the reports on the 2026–2028 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) following an extensive debate that exposed disagreements over key macroeconomic assumptions, particularly crude oil benchmark prices and their implications for government revenue. The reports were presented by the chairperson of the…
A member of the House of Representatives, Abdussamad Dasuki, has drawn the attention of his colleagues to alleged alterations of the tax bills as passed in both chambers of the National Assembly. Speaking under the matter of privileges at Wednesday’s plenary session, Dasuki alleged that the gazetted copy of the new tax laws in circulation…
Lawmaker representing Abia North in the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has dismissed claims by his Abia South counterpart, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, that President Bola Tinubu is destined to lose the 2027 presidential election. Senator Kalu insisted that the opposition lacks both the structure and momentum to unseat Tinubu in the forthcoming 2027 presidential election….
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, says the Nigerian constitution does not expressly confer power on the President to assume or temporarily displace executive or legislative institutions of a state. Falana made this known on Tuesday in an interview on Arise Television. He was reacting to the Supreme Court judgment, which reaffirmed that the President holds…
An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Alwan Hassan, has claimed that 95 per cent of ministers who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari should be behind bars, alleging that their tenure was a period of unchecked power and alleged corruption. Hassan made the allegation during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme aired on…
The Senate has passed the 2026–2028 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), paving the way for President Bola Tinubu to present the 2026 Appropriation Bill, estimated at ₦54.4 trillion, later this week. The passage followed the consideration and debate of a report presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance,…