Tag: Nigerian Constitution

My editor has told me that the Electoral Act forbids media organisations from publishing news or analysis about elections on Election Day that can...

 ABSTRACT The Nigerian judiciary has in recent times, been in the eye of the storm, as it faces a barrage of criticisms over some judgments...

Since man became aware of himself and realised that whether by mutual arrangement or contrived by nature, there are always leaders and followers, communities...

Restructuring. This has been the governing subject since 2015. It became very tendentious with the secessionist agitations and the killings by gangs of criminals...

By SEGUN FATUASE Prominent lawyer,  Afe Babalola, says an interim government should replace the current administration at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in...

It has become evident that judging from the relentless pressure being mounted on former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by power brokers in the North,...

A date has been set by an Abia State High Court to give a judgement in a case concerning, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the...

The Ekiti State government has said some members of the All Progressives Congress are uncomfortable with the rising profile of Governor Kayode Fayemi ahead...

Controversial Nigerian cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has said his senior brother was kidnapped by bandits and he had to pay a ransom to get...

The banishment of deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is unlawful. Sanusi was banished to Awe, a remote community in Nasarawa State. However, Justice Anwuli...

Popular legal and advocacy organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 116 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court...

Doctors in Nigeria have rejected a proposal by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, for physicians trained in Nigeria to work...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) over his failure to probe allegations...

The Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has said that anyone who wants to lead Nigeria must negotiate with the northern...

By Ismaila Chafe ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration is ready to arrest and prosecute all persons inciting violence through words or actions. He...

The High Court of Abia State on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of the case involving the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of...

The Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has said all is set for the million-man freedom march sheduled to...

The proposed administration of the Value Added Tax (VAT) by the states is an idea whose time has come. This is the verdict of some...

Kogi State has been recognised by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) as an oil producing state. RMAFC confirmed this in a letter...

One month from now, Nigeria’s last batch of states created in 1996 to bring the total to 36, would turn 25 years old.  The last...