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• ‘It’s ganged up against North’• Ortom throws weight behind Lagos Declaration• ‘Buhari disturbed by Southern governors’ resolution’• Northern governors need to embrace decisions, says PDP scribe• Northeast governors meet in Taraba over insecurity, economy• Group says it’s the turn of North Central to produce President The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the position of the Southern governors that the …

The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking the creation of state police. The bill, sponsored by Luke Onofiok (PDP, Akwa-Ibom), was considered by the House and passed for second reading on Tuesday during plenary. The bill seeks to amend the 1999 constitution and make police a concurrent issue in the constitution, which will allow states to create …

The 15-man committee set up by Governor Godwin Obaseki to screen political nominees to be appointed into his cabinet has commenced a review of all petitions received from across the 18 local government areas of the state. Chairman of the committee, Prof. Dennis Agbonlahor, while speaking to journalists in Benin City, reassured that the committee will be fair to all …

By Bob Majiri-Oghene Etemiku Nigeria’s foremost environmental group, the Environmental Rights Action Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/ FoEN), has rejected the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as passed by the National Assembly and called on both chambers to immediately harmonize and produce environmentally friendly and peoples bill. According to a press statement released in Benin City, Edo State, Dr. …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the procurement of four armoured boats and four speed boats, as part of measures to boost security on the state’s waterways and protect the lives and property of the citizenry. In a statement, Permanent Secretary, Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOGPADEC), Mr. James Ufumwen, said the procurement of …

If the Supreme Court in its wisdom annulled the votes of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 elections in Zamfara State and declared the Peoples Democratic Party winners in the polls, can Governor Bello Matawalle give back the mandate to the APC? This is the question the PDP would seek to ask the courts if its threats to challenge …

Benue State Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom, has described the decision of Southern Governors Forum to enact laws to ban open grazing of livestock in the region as a bold and patriotic move that will bring an end to the lingering crisis caused by armed herdsmen. Governor Ortom said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Terver Akase …

The Senate has set up a seven-man conference committee on the recently passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, announced the composition of the conference committee at plenary on Tuesday. He named the committee members to include the Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, who will serve as Chairman; Senators Mohammed Sabo – North West; Albert …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary, Tuesday decried reports that the lawmakers were planning to remove electronic transmission of election result from the Electoral Act amendment bill, saying that they are yet to receive the report from the committee. Gbajabiamila’s statement was in response to a point of order raised by a member, …

The members of the House of Representatives from the 17 Southern states have unanimously and unequivocally endorsed the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum (SGF) that the next President should emerge from the southern region. They also described the attempt to tamper with the Electoral Act to remove electronic transmission of results as a malicious and unpatriotic act aimed to …