More facts have emerged on the Budget Padding controversy rocking the National Assembly with reports that Senate President, Godswill Akpabio allocated N90bn to his constituency. BudgIT, a non- governmental organisation claimed that Akpabio padded the budget of the Ministry…
ON October 29, 1974, the Nigerian Ministry of Defence, through the Ministry of External Affairs, wrote to Nigerian missions and embassies abroad that it wanted to buy tonnes of cement to build barracks for its post-civil war armed forces of…
Principal Professional Officer for the City of Cape Town Caley Green announced the launch of the city’s 2023 Infrastructure Report at a Masterclass during the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium of South Africa (SIDSSA) on March 17. Evaluating the city’s bulk…
INTRODUCTION TWO week ago, we took a break from this series to discuss a very burning issues of the judiciary titled: THE PLATEAU STATE LEGISLATORS’ DEBACLE: BETWEEN LAW AND JUSTICE. In our last discussion on this tranche, we considered true…
THE National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has condemned in strong terms the killing of 16 soldiers (officers and men) and some civilians on Thursday, March 14, 2024. The killings were allegedly carried out by youths from Okuama community in Ugheli…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri SENATOR representing Southern Borno, Mohammed Ali Ndume and member representing Hawul/Askira-Uba federal Constituency, Hon. Dr Midala Usman Balami have mourned the passing away of a young talented Army Officer, Major Danjuma Shaffa who was among Officers…
TO many people, the name Putin has become synonymous with hegemonic high-handedness, and a vestige of the reminiscences of the old Soviet Union and her Spartan order. They think that for a world in search of peace, egoists, and “despots”…
THE Borno Youth Forum has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to release the former head of the IGP Intelligent Response Team (IGP-IRT), DCP Abba Kyari, on account of his exploits against Boko Haram terrorists and kidnappers in the country.…
NO fewer than 183 former Niger Delta agitators have dragged the Federal Government (FG) to a Federal High Court, Abuja over allegations bordering on alleged stoppage of their monthly allowance. The 183 ex-militants, in a 17 separate suits filed by…
THE Director General, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Dr. Joseph Ochogwu, has called on all Nigerians to stand in solidarity with Nigerian Army and insist on thorough investigation of the killing of 16 soldiers in the autonomous community…
