The British government has promised to support Nigeria’s move to secure a permanent seat at the United Nations (UN), especially for being a stabilising force in Africa.The British government reiterated its commitment to building and strengthening its relationship with Nigeria.The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Mr. Andrea Pocock, who gave the hint yesterday during a…
The Senate Committee on Constitutional Review yesterday said that out of the 61 requests it received from new state agitators, none of them fulfilled the constitutional requirements provided for state creation as enshrined in Section 81 of the 1999 Constitution.Consequently, the committee has turned down the requests for additional states creation.Chairman of the committee and…
The Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution on Wednesday presented its amendment bill detailing the contents of the third alteration to the nation’s foremost document.Highlights of the bill are the rejection of proposal for state police; abolition of states/Local Governments Joint Accounts; adoption of a single six-year tenure for President and governors…
Natives of the ceded Bakassi Peninsular are demanding $200bn from the Nigerian and Cameroonian governments as damages for the alleged neglect and killings of their relatives.They also sent an appeal to the United Nations Security Council to take over the territory on trusteeship in order to prepare it for self-determination.
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on Wednesday ordered the closure of Anambra State University after a student demonstration paralysed activities at the Igbariam campus of the university.Students had poured into the streets on Wednesday morning after gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, killed a female student on Tuesday.
Imo State Deputy Governor, Chief Eze Madumere, has said his boss, the Governor of the state, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has presidential ambition in 2015.Madumere said there was no reason for him or his boss to deny the presidential ambition, adding that the public was aware of it.The deputy governor, who spoke with reporters in Abuja…
The North on Wednesday disagreed with the National Assembly on the proscription of two Islamic miltant groups – Boko Haram and Ansaru–by President Goodluck Jonathan.While the North through its two prominent groups, the Arewa Consultative Forum and the Northern Elders Forum, faulted the ban, the National Assembly insisted that it was a welcome development.
The United States has issued fresh travel alert on Nigeria, warning its citizens not to travel to North and nine other states in South.The US predicated the alert on the emergency rule in Yobe, Adamawa and Borno states, saying extremists could expand their operations beyond the three states to other parts of the country.“The ability …
The Chaplin, Plateau State Government House, Chidi Ebere has disputed insinuations and prophecies making the rounds in the country that Nigeria may disintegrate during or after 2015 general elections, saying that “The country will be at peace beyond 2015”.The Cleric stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Jos, on the nation’s 14 years of…
As Goodluck Jonathan reacts to Education Review story, promises to rebuild St. Philip’s Central School, Akpakaogwe, Ogidi, Anambra StateThe special edition of Education Review, Tuesday, April 30, 2013, which focused on the “Untold Story of Achebe’s school days,” attracted the attention of President Goodluck Jonathan, we can now authoritatively reveal.The edition which harped, among other…