Sixty eight days after the National Assembly passed the 2013 Appropriation Bill, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday signed the bill into law, in a major twist to the controversy over the financial plan. Before the Presidential action, there was tension as the House of Representatives. The lawmakers went into a two-hour closed-session where they decided to […]
Attempts to polarise the Nigerian Governors’ Forum took a fresh dimension on Sunday evening with the emergence of Governor Godswill Akpabio as the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors’ Forum, a new forum. The forum is expected to be at par with the already divided NGF led by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State. […]
The division among the ranks of Nigerian governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) appeared to have widened at the weekend, as no fewer than 13 governors have alleged that the last meeting of the forum was staged to scheme them out. Sources close to the forum told the Sunday Tribune in […]
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: dailypost.com.ng The Presidency, on Tuesday, challenged those who claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan signed an agreement to spend one term, to produce the document. The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, said this on an Africa Independent Television programme, Focus Nigeria, monitored in Abuja. […]
• Mass redeployment of states’ security chiefs likely By CHUKS AKUNNA, Abuja and NDUBUISI ORJI, Lagos Ahead of the formal declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 election, there are strong indications that a major security shake-up may take place in states that are considered unfriendly to the Presidency. A very reliable source told […]
Edo LG Polls: Oshiomhole battles ACN leaders, awaits PDP’s onslaught SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City Political tension in Edo state is heating up daily as political gladiators rally behind their supporters ahead the April 14, 2013 Local Government Council election in the state. Being an Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) controlled state, the leadership of the […]
About 12 governors, who are members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, may join the newly formed political party, All Progressive Congress. Our correspondent gathered that the governors were already talking with the leaders of the newly formed political party. Investigations further showed that some of the governors were already thinking of how to leave […]
Ten state governors elected on the platform of four opposition parties rose from a four-hour meeting in Lagos on Tuesday with a resolve to collectively back the ongoing merger initiatives by their various political parties to wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. At the end of the closed-door meeting, held at the Marina […]
The Action Congress of Nigeria, human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN), and civil society groups have slammed the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for sending a delegation to visit Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, who is reportedly receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, in London. According to them, the governors are helping Chime to perpetuate has […]
THOUGH the northern part of the country is currently weighed down by a myriad of problems including those in the educational and security sectors, it could be developed if some measures are urgently put in place. This was the position of former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and other leaders of the northern […]
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