Members from almost, if not all, the six geo-political zones have submitted requests or bills to the National Assembly for the creation of a federal-funded regional body for the development of their geopolitical zones. Already, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been in operation since 2000 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo yielded to agitators’ […]

THE International Monetary Fund, IMF, feels entitled to plug Nigerian leaders with constant advisories on how to run our economy and society because we are always running to borrow from it. History has, however shown that the IMF and its Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank, are more concerned in propagating their neo-colonialistic interests than […]

The 10th Session of the National Assembly headed by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has served notice of its intention to embark on further alterations of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999. This is a routine assignment undertaken by each session of the Assembly, with the Deputy President of the […]

THE chicken is coming home to roost at last. For the first time ever, the political leadership of this country has flashed the green light over the idea of decentralising the federal monopoly of policing in Nigeria. After President Bola Tinubu’s meeting with state governors last week, the Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris Malagi, announced […]

GOVERNOR Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger State reacted very poorly to the protests that rocked Minna, the state capital, and other areas recently over rising hunger and hardship. He blamed the “opposition” for allegedly “sponsoring” them. Some women who were part of the protests were arrested but later released with public apologies from the Governor. […]