2027: Non-release of N371bn to INEC threatens polls
With 111 days to the January 16, 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections, concerns are mounting over the non-release of the balance of about N371 billion of the N873.78 billion budget projected for the polls, with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, warning that sustained funding is critical to effective planning, logistics and security.
Order Saraki, Melaye, others to refund ‘illegal N13.5m allowance with interest,’ SERAP asks court
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the Senate President Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye and 107 other senators to refund “illegal and unconstitutional N13.5 monthly allowance receives by each senator with interest, and to stop the lawmakers from receiving such unjustified allowances.”
APC convention: Oyegun, Amaechi absent as S-South leaders back Oshiomhole for chairman
THE leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South zone, met in Benin City, yesterday, and adopted the immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as the zone’s choice for the party’s national chairman.
We’re dying of hunger, ASUP cries to Gov Ikpeazu
ABA—THE Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Abia Polytechnic, Aba chapter, has sent a Save Our Soul message, SOS, to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, to save its members from what they described as ‘starvation and untold suffering’ which they have been subjected to, due to non-payment of 11 months salary arrears.
FG’s list of looters, laughable – Methodist Church
THE Methodist Church of Nigeria has described as laughable, the list of looters recently released by the Federal Government, saying that the list portrays the commitment of the present administration’s fight against corruption as a mirage.
APC Congress, way to go in building truly democratic party – Tinubu
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on Monday congratulated his party for embarking on the congresses against all odds, saying that it is the way to go in building and upholding a truly democratic political party.
