In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Nigeria has prohibited state governors from dissolving local government councils and appointing caretaker committees. The court declared such actions unconstitutional and a violation of the principles of democracy and decentralization. The judgement, delivered on Thursday, came after a lawsuit was filed by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), challenging the governors’ powers to dissolve elected local government councils and replace...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would significantly increase women’s representation in the National Assembly. The bill, which passed its second reading on Tuesday, aims to create 74 additional seats exclusively for women. Currently, women hold only 4 out of 109 seats in the Senate and 14 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives, totalling a mere 18 seats out of 469 in the National Assembly, representing a paltry 3.8...

The federal government has vowed to institute legal action against Daily Trust newspaper for falsely accusing the government of signing a Samoa deal to promote LGBTQ rights in the country. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this disclosure during a press conference on Saturday, 6 July at the National Press Centre, Abuja. Daily Trust had reported that the federal government signed the Samoa agreement with clauses requiring Nigeria to endorse the...