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A bill which would empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold general elections on same day has scaled second reading in the Senate. The bill aims to amend the Electoral Act 2022 to curb rising election costs, shorten campaign periods, and allow elected officeholders to serve as ad hoc delegates in…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday received his Ghanaian counterpart, John Mahama, at the State House, Abuja. Mahama’s visit to the Presidential Villa is his first official coming since his inauguration on January 7, 2025. Both leaders are expected to focus on strengthening diplomatic ties between Nigeria and Ghana as well as discussing key…
(Colossians 3:12-25)… Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man has a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which…
Ihedioha-Uzodinma By Tonnie Anele The removal of Emeka Ihedioha as governor of Imo State is certainly the most controversial judicial decision in recent times going by the enormity of negative reactions to it. This column was probably the first to argue that it is only a review of the decision that can remove the absurdities…
By Femi Aribisala When I was a Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, I had a Director who was boastful. He liked to drop names. He would tell you he spent the weekend playing golf with this General, or that he had just finished talking on the phone to that Managing…
Cross section of Members of Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), {knows as El-Zakzaky], South-west zone, protesting over the detention of their leader at the home of National Leader of All Progressive Congress [APC], Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in Ikoyi, Lagos, Wednesday. Photo: Bunmi Azeez The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) has backed the Kaduna State…
By Douglas Anele There are certain misconceptions about love, particularly erotic love, that we would dispel at this point. First, that true love is the outcome of a spontaneous emotional response, of being swept off one’s feet so to speak, by an irresistible feeling in the presence of the Other, usually described as chemistry between…
Emeka Ihedioha …Says merit in the matter too many to be ignored The lead Counsel to Emeka Ihedioha, Kanu Agabi, SAN, has reassured that He is committed to getting justice in the matter for review between Uzodinma and Ihedioha, at the Supreme Court Of Nigeria, Abuja. Agabi said beyond any other thing, He is “emotionally…
the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido He urged parents to stop sending their children to Almajiri schools, stressing that children could study the Qur’an, at there schools and with the teachers in their respective communities. The emir said that if sending children to such schools become necessary, then parents must send them with all…
…Generals IBM Haruna, Abbe, Dambazau, Ikponmwen, Nkanga, Bode George, Ewang, others advise Buhari Dayo Johnson, Dapo Akinrefon, Henry Umoru, Ozioruva Aliu, Chioma Onuegbu, Bashir Bello, Ola Ajayi, & Rotimi Ojomoyela Retired Army, Naval and Air Force officers have expressed divergent opinions over calls for the sack of service chiefs, with many urging President Muhammadu Buhari…