POLITICS

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has again moved against the proposed convention of the Labour party as advanced by the Julius Abure-led exco of the LP. The party, which accused Abure of taking a unilateral decision in respect of the proposed national convention…

Osun State Government has set up a Cyber Crime Action Committee against cyber crimes, cyber bullying and deliberate online false news. The setting up of the committee, according to a statement by Kolapo Alimi, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, is to…

The Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, has set up a seven-man panel headed by Justice S.O. Omonua (rtd), to investigate the allegations contained in the impeachment notice against the state deputy governor, Mr Philip Shaibu. Shaibu, it would be recalled, has…

Scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna State have been released, two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnappings in years. The students, about 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their…

The Chief of Staff to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, Edison Ehie, has challenged the State House of Assembly on the passage into law of the repealed House of Assembly Service Commission Bill, overriding the power of the governor at a…

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Friday, granted State Pardon and Mercy to 96 convicted inmates serving various sentences in Correctional Centres across state and empowered each of them with N100, 000. The State Pardon is in exercise of Section 212 (1)…

The Rivers State House of Assembly has ruled against Governor Siminalayi Fubara to enact the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) Service Commission Law. The House of Assembly had convened an unscheduled sitting on Friday during which they observed that more than the…

The former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council in the 2023 general elections, Akin Osuntokun, has recommended that a member from the North should become the next chairman of the party. Osuntokun, who said this during a chat on Arise TV,…

The National Consultative Front (NCFront), a key caucus in the Labour Party led by Prof Pat Utomi, has joined calls for the postponement of the proposed contentious National Convention of the Labour Party  to allow for more consultations and the cooling of…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has demanded major reforms to the nation’s security architecture and crackdown on illegal international adoption rackets involving Nigerian children. These were top issues at the Governors’ virtual meeting on Wednesday. On the security front, NGF members highlighted the critical…