The Centre for Transparency and Advocacy (CTA) says the stage is set for Nigeria to have credible elections in 2023 and beyond, with the signing into law of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022. The Executive Director, CTA, Ms Faith Nwadishi made this known in a statement in Abuja on Saturday. She said the assent to the Bill was historic as it strengthened Nigeria’s quest for a transparent electoral process that would deepen the nation’s democracy. The President Muhammadu Buhari, after many years of waiting, on Friday, signed the amended 2010 Electoral Act into Law. The new law now known…
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Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have demanded Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said was deplorable, but inevitable. Although Russia, a permanent member of the Council, refused to support the draft resolution, 11 of the 15-member UN body voted in favour while India, China and the United Arab Emirates abstained from the vote. Speaking to journalists after the session, Secretary-General António Guterres, stressed that “we must never give up”. “We must give peace another chance. Soldiers need to return to their barracks. Leaders need…
United States Ambassador to the UN, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield, on Friday told her Russian counterpart Amb. Vasily Nebenzya that he could not veto the voices of countries speaking against invasion of Ukraine. Thomas-Greenfield said this after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops, a move several Council members said was deplorable, but inevitable. Although Russia, a permanent member of the Council, refused to support the draft resolution, 11 of the 15-member UN body voted in favour while India, China and the United Arab Emirates…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says more than $800,000 million (N332 million) is in the kitty for 500 participants of its special skills acquisition programme in Nigeria. Its Team Lead, Governance, Peace and Security in Nigeria, Matthew Alao stated this in an interview in Ado-Ekiti shortly after the graduation ceremony of 200 beneficiaries of UNDP’s skill acquisition programme for women, youth and victims of violence in Ekiti on Friday. He said that under the organisation’s Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Programmes, 100 beneficiaries were drawn from Kaduna, 200 in Ekiti, and 200 in Osun, all who were trained in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Ukrainian military forces to overthrow their own government as his country pushes its military might in Ukraine. Putin said in a recorded address filmed before meeting with the Russian Security Council on Friday that Ukrainians need to “take power into your own hands” and overthrow a government he dubbed “neo-Nazis,” Politico reported. “It seems that it will be easier for us to come to an agreement than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis, who occupied Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage,” he said, according to Politico. Putin also said…
The Lagos High Court in Ikeja has convicted kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike who is popularly known as Evans and two others, Uchenna Amadi and Okuchuwkwu Nwachukwu, to life imprisonment. Justice Hakeem Oshodi sentenced the trio on Friday after convicting them on two counts of conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The victim is the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. In convicting the trio, Justice Oshodi held that the prosecution had successfully proved the charge against them beyond a reasonable doubt. In reaching his verdict on Evans, the judge held that he observed the demeanour of the witness,…
The Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022, passed by the National Assembly forwarded for Presidential Assent, via a letter dated 31st January, 2022. In line with established tradition, I received inputs from relevant ministries, departments and agencies of government after careful and thorough reviews of the Bill and its implications to democratic processes in our country. It is gratifying to note that the current Bill comes with a great deal of improvement from the previous Electoral Bill 2021. There are salient and praiseworthy provisions that could positively revolutionize elections in Nigeria through the introduction of new technological innovations. These innovations would…
The federal government on Thursday in Abuja said it would continue to seek constructive engagement with members of the medical profession. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this at a grand reception in honour of Dr Osahon Enabulele, who was elected last October as the President-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA). Represented by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, Buhari said that the Federal Government was doing everything possible to bring equity to the medical profession. Meanwhile, Buhari said that effort was on to promote research around the medical profession and thanked Enabulele for attaining the feat as the leader of…
The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) has disbursed N574.668 billion revenue to the federal, states and local government Councils for the month of January 2022. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a virtual meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for February 2022. According to Henshaw Ogubike, Director Information, Press and Public Relations, OAGF, the N574.668 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N291.400 billion; distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N178.066 billion and Exchange Gain of N5.202 billion and Non Mineral Revenue of N100.000 billion. In January 2022, the total…
By Babagana Wakil, Maiduguri Nigeria’s vice president, professor Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday, commissioned projects in Borno state. The Nigeria AirForce 002, which conveyed the VP landed at the Maiduguri International Airport where the state governor, Babagana Zulum alongside Senator Kashim Shetima and members of the state Assembly, received him. The vice president commissioned six out of the 500 projects constructed by the administration in his second year in office. The projects include Doctors Quarters with 71 Apartments beside Legacy Garden and Resilience Shopping Complex with 78 shop located at Bulumkutu GSM market. The VP also inspected Yemi Osibanjo Orphanage where…