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Court Reinstates Suspended Edo LG Chairs, Deputies

An Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City has ordered the restatement of the suspended Local Council Chairmen and their deputies in the State. The court, presided over by Justice Efe Ikponmwonba issued the order on Friday, December 20, 2024. Justice Ikponmwonba gave this order while ruling on a suit filed by the embattled...
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Court Declares APC Congresses Illegal

The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has invalidated the Local Government and State Congresses conducted by the Tony Okocha-led All Progressives Congress(APC), in Rivers State. According to the court ruling, the Rivers State APC under the leadership of Okocha conducted the congresses in violation of a court order. The new executives from...
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Sani Calls For Inclusion Of Public Hearing In Budget Bill

Senator Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central lawmaker and human rights activist, has suggested a critical review of the legislative process surrounding the 2025 Budget in the 10th National Assembly. Sani who highlighted the lack of public hearings for the 2025 appropriation bill emphasized that this exception could be revisited in the future to strengthen...
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Congresses: APC’ll Adopt Option A4

…Says PDP’ll disintegrate before 2027 Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has assured of transparent congresses to elect the executive committee members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, at all levels. Omo-Agege who spoke on Wednesday at a stakeholders’ meeting in Effurun, in Uvwie Local Government Area, said the party...
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LG Autonomy: When House, Stakeholders Brainstormed

PHILIP NYAM reports on the national dialogue convened by House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) on local government reforms One issue that has gained traction in Nigeria of late is local government autonomy. Governance at the third tier of government has been abysmal and many stakeholders tend...
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Obaseki Asks Okpebholo To Get On Task Of Governance 

The former governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki has urged Governor Monday Okpebholo to stop ‘whining and get on with the task of governance’ Obaseki, who was reacting to allegations of N 200 billion debt owed contractors by the government, N3.8b state government contribution to the Museum of West Africa Arts (MOWAA), among others...
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How APGA Outlived Its Usefulness

On Thursday, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2025 governorship election in Anambra State, Paul Chukwuma knocked to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), saying the party has outlived its usefulness. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos State, Chukwuma said APGA has a selfish structure designed to benefit only the cabal running...
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Report On Hacking Of NBS Website Suspicious

Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said the coincidence of the hacking of the website of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), shortly after the release of damning statistics on security, is suspicious. Atiku in a statement by his media office in Abuja on Thursday, noted that the incident was cause for concern to the...
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