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...