As a panacea to Nigeria’s insecurity challenges, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, has advocated for the creation of state police. Kalu, while addressing newsmen in Abuja after returning from Geneva, Switzerland, where he represented Nigeria at the 55th WTO–Inter–Parliamentary Union Public Forum, explained that the state police bill before the National Assembly aims to improve response times and align policing with international standards. The deputy speaker announced that a...

Following the lifting of the six-month state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers state by President Bola Tinubu, members of the State House of Assembly have resumed plenary. The assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule reconvened on Thursday afternoon at the Assembly Residential Complex along the Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway. The Assembly has resolved to probe the state’s finances during the six-month rule of Ibok-Ete Ibas as the sole administrator. Plenary last held on March 12,...

Due to the government’s failure to implement pension increments and palliatives, members of the Coalition of Federal Pensioners of Nigeria have threatened to embark on a nationwide protest by October 6. Recall that in October 2023, President Bola Tinubu approved N35,000 for workers and N25,000 for pensioners as palliatives. Mukaila Ogunbote, National Chairman of the coalition, stated this at a news conference on Tuesday in Lagos, noting that the pensioners had given the government until September...