The Senate has passed a bill to establish the Nigerian French Language Village, Badagry, Lagos State, as an inter-university centre for French studies. This followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND. The Senate also passed the Chartered Institute of Directors Bill, 2021 after considering the report of the […]
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The governor also announced a N5 million cash gift for a Level 16 officer in Lagos State Civil Service for winning an impromptu quiz Lagos State Governor with 2019/2020 outstanding officers (Junior & Senior Categories) in the Public service at the Marriott Hotel, Ikeja, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State […]
The Senate yesterday condemned the “unlawful” encroachment and arrest of Nigerians by the authorities of the Republic of Benin. It directed its Committees on Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, and States and Local Governments to interface with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice, and the National Border Commission to put in […]
EFFORTS to resuscitate the troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), are effectively dead in the water after the exposition by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) of a systematic plot to frustrate its revival involving senior government officials and players in the dog-eat-dog aviation industry, fresh details show. NewZimbabwe.com is reliably informed […]
THE fifth population census in Zimbabwe after its independence in 1980, will be conducted in April next year, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced. The process which precedes the delineation exercise of constituencies ahead of harmonised elections in 2023 will commence on 21 and end on 30 April. Ncube said this at his first meeting […]
Abuja — The Presidency, on Tuesday, stated that it got the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, due to “cross-border cooperation” in a well-coordinated “international operation”. They said after Kanu was nabbed, he was then handed over to National Intelligence Agency, NIA, and then returned to Nigeria to face the Law. These […]
Political scientist Professor Mustapha Hussein has asked former President Peter Mutharika to guard against public pronouncements, which could bleed disunity and generate into chaos in the country. Hussein was reacting to the remarks Mutharika made at a press conference he held in Mangochi on Sunday. The political analyst said the former President, being a lawyer […]
Seychelles will test the functionality of its national anti-trafficking in persons legislation in the coming days through a simulation exercise. The exercise is taking place at the Regional Fusion Centre and Law Enforcement Safety and Security (REFLECS 3) base at Bois de Rose on the outskirt of Victoria, the capital The United Nations Office on […]
The Southern governors’ position on raging national issues, yesterday, raised dust in the polity, eliciting support and criticisms in many quarters. Rising from a meeting attended by 15 of the 17 state governments in the South on Monday, the governors, among others, insisted on power shift to the South in 2023, and rejected removal of […]
Local Government Chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has said that the former governor of the State, Ayodele Fayose, will not be bothered by petty blackmail, linking him with any threat to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) for whatever reasons. The chairmen emphasized that; “It’s PDP or nothing for Fayose […]
Civil Society Organisations yesterday made good their threats to stop legislative activities as they blocked the entrance to the National Assembly in Abuja. Though their protest was peaceful, they were encircled by a combined team of police and men of the Department of the State Security (DSS). The CSOs made vehicular movements in and out […]
The federal government has pleaded with the United Nations and its agencies to support the country on its numerous environmental challenges. The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, made the plea yesterday during a courtesy call on the ministry by the Deputy-Secretary General of the United Nations, Mrs. Amina Mohammed. The minister, while extolling the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday charged the army to develop new strategies to tackle the insurgency and other emerging security threats in the country. The president acknowledged that the army had saved Nigeria from disintegration. He said this in Abuja during the grand finale of 2021 Nigerian Army Day celebration (NADCEL) lecture series. Buhari, represented by […]
The Senate was on Tuesday sharply divided over the debate on a Bill to regulate the slaughtering, breeding and ranching of donkey in the country. The Bill for an Act to regulate the slaughter of donkey and establish the breeding and ranching of donkey through the export certification value chain to mitigate the extinction of […]
A clampdown by security forces against pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini has left scores dead. Many factors led to unprecedented violence in Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Could this spell the end of that system? The United Nations on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into reported rights abuses, including by law enforcement, following the eruption of […]
The Senate has condemned what it described as the “unlawful” encroachment and arrest of Nigerians by the authorities of the Republic of Benin. Accordingly, the upper chamber directed its Committees on Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, and States and Local Governments to interface with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal […]
Geneva — The violence that erupted in eSwatini in recent days – in which dozens of people have been reported killed or injured during protests – is deeply concerning, the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday. “I think what has been happening, stemming from the protests that began in May, indicated over this death by […]
Much of the debate on the Draft Firearms Control Amendment Bill has focused on the so-called “right” to have a gun for self-defence. There is no right to carry a gun for self-defence under our Constitution. Most people in South Africa do not own guns. Those that argue for the right to carry a gun […]