Southwest Governors Bump Heads with the Presidency Over Who Should Control Amotekun

Governors in the Southwest are involved in verbal clash with the presidency over who should control the structure and operations of the Southwest Security Network also called ‘Amotekun’. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily that the operations of security organisations set up by various states in the country would be guided by the Inspector General of Police under the community policing...

Mr. Frank Tietie, an Abuja based lawyer and Human Rights activist, says the newly amended Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) poses no threat to religious freedom. Tietie spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari signed CAMA into law on Aug. 7, to facilitate the ease of doing business in the country. But a part of the law, particularly section 839, was...

U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned a convicted bank robber, Jon Ponder, who is now running a post-prison assistance programme. A pre-recorded video of Trump signing an executive order for the pardon, with Ponder standing beside him, aired on Tuesday night. Coming amid the Republican National Convention, the president’s move is seen by some as an attempt to draw attention to criminal justice. Criminal justice reform and the need to give repentant criminals a second...

The People’s Democratic Party Caucus in the House of Representatives has threatened to sue Federal Government over what it described as breached in relation to the FG’s Special Works Project designed to provide 774,000 jobs in the country. A few weeks ago, the caucus rejected the allocation of only 25 slots to members of the House of Representatives as against the 30 slots allocated to the upper chamber members. Also, 30 slots were allocated to...

Sen. Orji’s Feud With Abia APC Chieftain Escalates

The feud between former Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia and his kinsman, Chief Benjamin Apugo, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in the state, has escalated with groups and individuals entering the fray. Apugo had in a statement accused Orji (PDP), representing Abia Central Senatorial District, of having looted the state treasury during his eighth years administration between 2007 and 2015. The comment triggered sharp reactions from Orji’s aides and close political allies, relations...

2023: APC Must Allow Tinubu to Contest – Babachir Lawal

…… Roasts Oshiomhole, Reveals Why He Was Removed As APC National Chairman A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal, says to avoid ‘’wrath of God’’  the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, must be given a chance to contest 2023 Presidency. Lawal who was sacked as SGF in October 2017 after he was indicted in N544m grass-cutting scandal, made this comment while speaking on...

The People’s Democratic Party has faulted the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership of the House of Representatives to shut down sittings of various investigative committees currently investigating the executive, adding that it is a deliberate design to cover the smell of corruption “oozing out of the APC administration.” The party then urged the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, to stop circumventing the statutory duties of the House and...

Kaduna: 3 killed, 10 Injured During Shia Ashurah Mourning Session – IMN

At least three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as Shi’ites have been reportedly killed by the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force in Kaduna State. The West African Pilot News gathered that the Shi’ite members were holding their Ashura annual mourning session when the police attacked them at Hayin Bello area of Kaduna metropolis. The President Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim Musa, confirmed that three of their...

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has berated the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for allegedly taking a side in the Southern Kaduna crisis. Secretary-General of the Council, Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, said in a statement issued in Kaduna while reacting to the removal of Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai as speaker at the NBA forthcoming conference. “For, clearly it has already taken side in the Southern Kaduna crises, contrary to its members training and what it loudly preaches, without...

Senate Queries DPR Officials Over N44.5 Remittance

The Senate has queried Officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for remitting only N44.5 billion into the Consolidated Revenue Fund in 2019 out of N2.4 trillion generated. This is as heads of many of the other revenue-generating agencies invited by the Senate’s Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning for Interactive Sessions on their 2021 revenues projections, refused to appear. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Solomon Adeola, queried the remittance...

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