The National Assembly has powers to replace the 1999 Constitution
By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN,CON,OFR The Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo Agege, was recently reported to have stated that the National Assembly has no power to replace the 1999 Constitution and that those calling for its overhaul should channel their demands for a new constitution towards constitutional amendment. Expectedly, this generated responses from stakeholders, particularly […]
German public broadly behind new lockdown as shops and schools shut
A new lockdown that started in Germany on Wednesday, under which all but essential shops have been forced to close and schoolchildren are to return to remote learning, is backed by 73 per cent of the public, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by dpa. The sweeping closures and restrictions come on top of a […]
Uzodinma presents N346bn budget for 2021 fiscal year
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo on Wednesday presented a N346.16 billion budget for the 2021 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly. The budget titled “Budget of Wealth Creation” is made up of N74.66 billion recurrent expenditure and N271.52 capital expenditure. Further breakdown of the estimate shows that the Consolidated Revenue Fund Charges (CRFC) […]
Universal Health Coverage: FG pledges to reposition healthcare sector
By Chioma Obinna As the world mark this year’s Universal Health Coverage Day, UHC, the Federal Government has pledged to reposition the country’s healthcare sector with a view to ensuring Nigerians have access to quality healthcare need without falling into poverty. In his message to mark the day with the theme: “‘Health for all: Protect […]
APFFLON calls for CRFFN Registrar’s sack
Amid the unending crisis in the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the President of African Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics of Nigeria (APFFLON), Mr. Frank Ogunojemite has joined calls for the sack of the CRFFN Registrar, Barr. Samuel Nwakohu.
Presidency: Power rotation is inevitable until Nigeria is restructured
By Olu Fasan THERE is an intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the opposition to rotational presidency in Nigeria. The advocates of “meritocracy” conveniently forget that Nigeria is, politically, not a meritocratic country, and that zoning is a political imperative that speaks to this country’s deeply flawed political structure that creates recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts over […]
