Traditional rulers across Nigeria have urged the National Assembly to reinstate their constitutional roles that were stripped away in the 1999 Constitution. According to the royal fathers, the exclusion has created a governance gap, particularly in areas of grassroots mobilization and security. They made the appeal during the North Central Zonal Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution (Zone A), covering Niger, Kogi, and Kwara States, held in Minna, Niger State, on Saturday....

Amidst rumour of defection to All Progressives Congress (APC) by Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has collapsed its structure into the ruling party. At a leadership caucus meeting held at the Oke Fia Government House in Osogbo, Osun State capital on Saturday, the party leadership promised to move with the Governor to wherever he would be going, even as it passed a vote of confidence...

Mr. Okechukwu Akaneme, former President of the Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, brutalized by agents of the Anambra State Government at his home in Onitsha, has died. Precisely on October 11, 2024, Mr. Akaneme was at home in Onitsha when revenue agents working for the Anambra State Waste Management Agency – ASWAMA in the early hours of the morning came for levy enforcement and in that process broke his spinal cord and thereafter abandoned him and...