VICE-President Kashim Shettima on Thursday said the Federal Government would reinvigorate the National Addressing Council (NAC) to address challenges associated with the addressing system in the country. Shettima said this during a pre-meeting of the council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, the spokesperson to the Vice-President, said …

A bill for an Act to prohibit gas flaring, encourage gas utilisation and provide for penalties and remedies for gas flaring violations and related matters has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Benson Babajimi (APC-Lagos), in his lead debate on Thursday, said …

THE Ogun 2025 Appropriation The Chairman, House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, Musefiu Lamidi (APC- Ado Odo Ota 11), said the 2025 appropriation bill prioritised education, health and infrastructure.Bill of N1.054 trillion has scaled second reading at the House of Assembly. The lawmakers, while deliberating on the bill during plenary …

Gov. Umar Namadi of Jigawa has called for application of technology in government and legislative administration, to encourage good governance and growth of democratic culture in the country. He said this on Thursday in Dutse at the inauguration of a three-day retreat on e-legislation for lawmakers and legislative staff of …

THE President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has assured the board and management of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) of the readiness and commitment of the Senate to addressing the challenges facing the Bureau. Akpabio gave the assurance on Thursday when members of the Code of Conduct Bureau, led …

FORMER presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has urged Nigerians to join a nationwide protest against the detention and prosecution of Dele Farotimi by the Police. Farotimi, a human rights activist was arrested by officers of the Ekiti State Police Command for allegedly defaming the character …

Yes and let me repeat it very clearly, Dele Farotimi is a bastard or how else would you label a man who picks up the gauntlet and screams to high heavens about the systemic rot in the system and the cannibalisation of our people by the centurion ogres that control …

  I must confess I never knew Dele Farotimi before the tumultuous 2023 presidential election, and it was during this period he become visible to me. What I noticed about him during that trying period in that our contemporary political history was that he had this reckless approach during interviews …

In recent times, there has been an increase in the arrest and arraignment of persons alleged to have published false and misleading information against public figures. The first of these was that of a blogger who was arrested, arraigned, and subsequently remanded in prison in connection to publication relating to …

THE Senate on Thursday said that it did not suspend deliberations on the Tax Reform Bills as reported in some quarters. Leader of the Senate, Opeyemi Bamidele, made the clarification when he raised Senate Point of Order 42, during plenary. Raising the order, Bamidele said that it was reported by …