A lot of horse-trading reportedly went into the deal that eventually culminated in the decision by the national conference to create additional 18 states from the existing 36, Nigerian Tribune has reliably learnt. Delegates from the North had reportedly opposed the idea of creation of new states, particularly the central objective of proportionate representation in…
Residents of Ohafia in Abia State were jolted yesterday by reported discovery of bombs in the community.
A Federal Government delegate at the ongoing National Conference, Chief Mike Ozekhome has proposed that the name Nigeria should be changed to ‘Airegin’. He made the proposal on Wednesday, while contributing to the debate on the report of the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, co-chaired by retired General Ike Nwachukwu and Honourable…
Legal luminary and frontline constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has again spoken about the on-going national dialogue, proposing a total devolution of powers at the centre to either six or more zones, while the existing 36 states remain basic federating units of government. What Nwabueze called for in effect was the removal the exclusive powers…
The clamour for state creation pitted delegates against one another at the National Conference on Wednesday.
NIGERIA is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group, Boko Haram, than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country’s break-up less likely, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said. Speaking to Reuters at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Soyinka said the horrors inflicted by the…
Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Kawu Sumaila, has flayed the recent decision by Imo State government to register all Northerners, residing in the state. The lawmaker, in a statement, said such actions was tantamount to making Northerners second-class citizens in their country. “This kind of action is misguided, unfortunate and…
The Federal Government has been advised to take a decisive stand to end terrorist activities of the Boko Haram insurgents in the country. Speaking, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at an Energy Environment and Investment forum organised by the Rivers State Government, former United State’s Assistant Secretary of States, Mr. James Rubin, said there…
A suspected bomb device has gone off in Ile Ife, the popular university town in Osun, South-West Nigeria. Such explosions were usually associated with the terrorist-ravaged North but have lately started to creep into the South. The device was said to have gone off at the back a house that is not far away from…
A bomb blast has occurred shaken parts of Kaduna, North-West Nigeria.