The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Abbas Tajudeen, has said that the increase in the standing committees of the House from 109 to 134 was to allow for better legislative oversight of the ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government by the legislature. Abbas, who made this known durng an interactive session with journalists in the National Assembly Complex, on Tuesday, decried the aim was to share leadership positions among members. He noted that some of the committees of the house were too large for effective oversight functions. “For example, the Committee on Tertiary Education had over…
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A United States court sitting in Chicago has ordered the Chicago State University (CSU) to hand over all records relating to Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu’s studentship of the school to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar within two days. The ruling was delivered on Tuesday following an application filed by Atiku, seeking the documents to prove that Tinubu was not eligible to vie for the presidential election when he did. The court held that the former vice president had been able to sufficiently satisfy the purpose for seeking the records. A United States court sitting in Chicago has ordered the Chicago…
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, and the governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the November 11 governorship election in the state, Athan Achonu, have condemned the Tuesday killing of security operatives in the state. In separate statements, Uzodimma and Achonu described the killing as reprehensible. In a statement issued by Uzodimma’s spokesperson, Oguwike Nwachuku, the governor assured that the suspects would be caught. The statement read, “Governor Hope Uzodimma has assured the public that those behind the Tuesday killing of security operatives at Ehime Mbano area of Imo State will be fished out and made to face the law.…
Mr. President, Heads of State and Government, Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. President, 1. On behalf of the people of Nigeria, I congratulate you on your well-deserved election as President of this Session of the United Nations General Assembly. We commend your predecessor, His Excellency, Mr. Csaba Korosi (Cha-ba Kor-o-chi) for his able stewardship of the Assembly. We also commend His Excellency, Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, for his work seeking to forge solutions to humanity’s common challenges. This is my first address before the General Assembly. Permit me to say a few words on…
The son of Ali Bongo Ondimba and several allies of the ousted Gabon president have been charged with high treason and corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor told AFP Wednesday. Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, as well as four others close to the deposed leader, “have been charged and placed in provisional detention” on Tuesday, said Libreville prosecutor Andre-Patrick Roponat. They face a range of charges including high treason against state institutions, massive misappropriation of public funds, forgery of the president’s signature, corruption and drug trafficking. Bongo, 64, who had…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said bad governance is at the root of the recent coup d’etat sweeping through some African countries. According to Obasanjo the practice of democracy without integrity bad governance, nepotism, and favouritism amidst sit-tight syndrome are fuelling the coup d’etat in Africa. Within the last two months, the military had taken over democratically elected governments in Gabon and Niger Republic citing poor leadership and mismanagement of the countries’ resources. Obasanjo said that as much as he hated military rule having suffered untold hardship under the late military despot, General Sanni Abacha, when he was incarcerated…
Barely two weeks after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the February 25 polls, the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, have filed 86 grounds of appeal at the Supreme Court to nullify the judgment. The two candidates in separate appeals filed on Tuesday, asked the apex court to set aside the PEPT ruling and nullify Tinubu’s election, describing the verdict as erroneous. Atiku’s appeal was hinged on 35 grounds in which he faulted the tribunal’s ruling on electronic transmission of results, Federal Capital…
No fewer than fifty scholars of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, will undertake research in agriculture, humanities, engineering, and other fields of the discipline as the university management announced winners for the 2023 academic research grant facilitated by its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr Olutoyin Okeowo. The grant is part of the university’s efforts to aid the discovery of new ideas, concepts, study and academic excellence. Grouped into 10 groups, the list released by the university indicated that one of the research teams, which is led by Prof Wahab Akanbi of the Department of Agriculture, will look at the use…
Vice Chancellor, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Prof. Timothy Abiodun Adebayo has proffered solutions to the ravaging hunger and poverty in the country, stating that ‘one of the ways out of food insecurity is for every Nigerian to tickle the land for our collective wealth and comfort’ According to the university administrator, “if we can tickle the land, the land will yield its treasure. All of us will eat and be comfortable and there will be wealth and peace in the society. Without being metaphorical, I am saying the way out of the crises rocking the country is for Nigeria to…
Date: 2023-Sept- 20 🎯TOPIC: GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER 📺 WATCH THE DEVOTION VIA THE LINK BELOW👇 https://youtu.be/xDy0GSCrCPA?si=xcdL_P162FmJ8UJo ✝️ TEXT:2 Corinthians 8:1-24(NKJV) 8:1. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 8:2. that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality. 8:3. For I bear witness that according to [their] ability, yes, and beyond [their] ability, [they were] freely willing, 8:4. imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the…