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…Salutes Edo women for role in realization of MEGA Agenda Betsy Obaseki, the wife of Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has challenged the continued marginalization of women in politics in Nigeria, particularly at the local government level, urging for more strengthened legislation to encourage women’s participation in politics at all levels. The state first Lady made the call at …

President Bola Tinubu recently stopped the implementation of a hike in electricity tariff and insisted that subsidy be paid on power consumed nationwide, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, revealed on Wednesday. Adelabu also stated that the Federal Government would investigate the legality of the five-year licence extension given to privatised power distribution and generation companies, stressing that the operating …

• Observers accuse N’Assembly of abandoning critical oversight• Say action displays insensitivity to plight of Nigerians Some Nigerians, yesterday, faulted signing of the N2.176 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill by President Bola Tinubu, describing it as ill-timed, even as they knocked the National Assembly for failing to scrutinise demands by the executive arm of government.Deputy President of Trade Union Congress …

Not less than 18 candidates cleared by INEC will contest the governorship election in Kogi, 17 in Imo and 16 in Bayelsa. Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to many Nigerians …

WASHINGTON — As they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a clear alternative to former President Donald Trump, five Republican presidential candidates gathered Wednesday for the party’s latest debate. Trump, the overwhelming front-runner in the race, skipped the event, as he has the first two, citing his polling advantage. There was no shortage of noteworthy confrontations on stage, as the …

Today felt like a ceremonial comma. A punctuation mark in an autumn of familiar political sentences. The government setting out the hoped for legal architecture to make their recent promises a reality. Those hoping for a frisson from the unexpected will have left deflated. But Downing Street never suggested this would be a flurry of the fresh, a wagon load …

…says there must be an end to detention The court directed that Emefiele should be released to a team of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, that represented him in the matter. An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, granted bail to the detained Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele. The court, in …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has instructed all its branches nationwide to continue issuing various denominations of both old and redesigned banknotes in ample quantities to deposit money banks. The apex bank disclosed this in a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, and posted on its X handle on Wednesday. This comes in response to reports of …

Ahead of the Saturday, November 11, governorship election in Imo, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said there will be no election in the polling units with no registered voters. The commission also published detailed information on 40 polling units where elections will not take place on Saturday. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, …

• Only Delta, Lagos, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, enjoy full financial independence• Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Benue, nine others have partial autonomy• Soremekun, Ajayi warn against emasculation of legislature In clear disregard of constitutional provisions, at least 31 governors are yet to concede financial autonomy to the legislative arm of government in their states. Findings by The Guardian show that Houses of Assembly in …