The Action Alliance (AA) has approved a two-year extension for its National Chairman, Kenneth Udeze, and other national officers, following amendments to its constitution during the...
On Thursday, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, asserted that the offices of the Secretary to the Government of the...
The House of Representatives has inaugurated a 43-member House Special Committee on Constitution Review panel to make amendments to the 1999 Constitution, with a 24-month deadline...
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ALMOST every ruler in Nigeria since 1999 had toyed with whatever can be done to, at best, nibble at the edges of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution...
A former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, said on Friday Nigeria was in dire need of a new constitution to address its numerous challenges. Anyaoku,...
State governors have been told point blank that they do not have the power to ban mining activities in their respective states, as it falls under...
Dele Momodu, the Director of Strategic Communications for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, on Wednesday night, said the judges of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC)...
The Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari of crippling the Nigerian economy as...
Legal luminary, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has declared that the future of Nigeria has to be discussed now, while also harping on the need for a...
Former Nasarawa State Governor and Senator representing Nasarawa South in the National Assembly, Abdullahi Adamu, has knocked calls for political parties to zone the 2023 presidency...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has contradicted the position of the National Assembly on the electronic transmission of election results, saying it has the capacity...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday individuals championing the demand for Nigeria’s restructuring are ignorant of the constitution. The President stated this during the Launch of...
The Senate has ruled out the possibility of a brand new Constitution for Nigeria, because the 1999 Constitution does not include a clause on how to...
The House of Representatives on Sunday suspended indefinitely the public hearing on review of the constitution in Imo and Abia States over worsening insecurity. The Deputy...
Oluwole Onemola, a media aide to Bukola Saraki, former senate president, has said that the claims by the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) over the approval of...
The Nigerian Senate has extended the date for the closure of submission of memoranda for the amendment of the constitution. The Senate, in its review of...
The suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Panel of Recovery of Public Properties, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has appealed to members of the ruling All Progressives Congress...
Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, has died, the presidency said in a statement on Thursday. Essebsi, a major player in the country’s transition to democracy...
As part of its reforms and repackaging strategies, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has approved a new constitution and manifesto to put it in good stead...
The Senate, on Tuesday, mandated its Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters to liaise with the National Judicial Council, (NJC) Office of the Attorney...
An unidentified anti-Trump protester set himself ablaze outside the Trump International Hotel on Tuesday night prompting staff inside the hotel to put calls through to the...
Long-serving Gambian President Yahya Jammeh seems really desperate to hold onto power after declaring a state of emergency. He cited undue foreign interference in the recently...
Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, today, told the new Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, that he is not constitutionally empowered to run the affairs of...
The current economic recession and delay in the release of funds, may have stalled the constitution review exercise in the Senate, checks by Ripples Nigeria have...
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, factional national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has said that he was ready to step down as the party’s chairman....
A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4)...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Tuesday, called for the abolition of security votes in the country for the president and state governors, declaration that it is...
The League of Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (LEPAN) on Wednesday congratulated young Nigerians for their tenacity as a bill seeking to reduce the age of candidacy...
Some retired Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and leading senior lawyers have added their voices to the controversies surrounding the trial of the Senate...
The Borno State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Baba Basharu, has been suspended by the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, over his alleged...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said it is planning to carry out a major review of the country’s electoral laws, and that the establishment of Electoral...
The House of Representatives may have found a way around the protracted constitution review exercise being carried out by the National Assembly. It has adopted a...
A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State has declared that restriction of movements in Lagos during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise is unlawful, Justice Mohammed...
Daar Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT) have described as ‘laughable’, the threat of former Lagos State governor, Ahmed Tinubu to sue the company for...
In spite of controversy surrounding the state of his health, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gen. Muhammadu Buhari gave his much anticipated speech...
The controversial cop, who was recently posted to oversee Zone 2, of the Nigeria Police, Joseph Mbu, has warned that his men will set aside the...
