The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has described the position of Senate Whip Senator Ali Ndume on President Bola Tinubu and his administration as a self-serving blackmail to whip up public sentiment. The group noted that Ndume had recently described the administration as a kakistocracy but the policy analysis group said the Senate Whip’s comment wasn’t fact-based. A press statement on Tuesday signed by the group’s chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, argued that policies and programmes...

The PDP Asue/Ogie Diaspora Media Directorate has hailed Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State for emerging first in Nigeria’s Fiscal Transparency League Table The group which commended Obaseki for positioning the state in direction of economic progress said that posterity will be kind to him, stressing that it’s an achievement that encapsulates the state’s commitment to transparent governance and fiscal responsibility. The Diaspora Director of Media, Deacon Darlington Okpebholo Ray along with Prince Ralph Odua,...

Newly elected 21 local government council chairmen in Adamawa have been warned to avoid absenteeism in office, as the present administration will not condone such habit for a chairman to abandon his official duties for no reason. Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State on Monday gave the warning while swearing-in the newly elected 21 local government chairmen held at the Mahmud Ribadu Square Yola. Fintiri charged them to eschew corruption in the discharge their...

The State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) in Delta and Adamawa States have declared the results of last Saturday’s local government polls conducted in their respective states with People’s Democratic Party (PDP) sweeping all the chairmanship seats. The Chairman, of Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr Jerry Agbaike who announced the results in Asaba said the People’s Democratic Party won the 25 local government chairmanship seats and settled 499 councillorship positions, while the Allied People’s Movement...

Professor of Public Law, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Joy Ezeilo has said that the Nigerian Constitution is skewed to exclude the political participation and representation of women in the country. The Professor of Public Law, who stated this at the weekend in Abuja at the Coordination and Strategy Meeting on Affirmative Action Reforms for Increase Women’s Political Representation in the Ongoing Constitution Review Process organised by UN Women, said Nigerian Constitution is not gender sensitive,...

Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation has commended the Federal Government and the judiciary over last Thursday’s ruling in support of local government financial autonomy. Afenifere made the commendation in a press Statement on Sunday signed by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi. It will be recalled that the Federal Government, through the Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in May this year, instituted a case at the Supreme Court seeking...