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Former Kaduna lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has said the Supreme Court has freed the local governments from over two decades of captivity and systemic plunder by the states. Sani’s statement followed the Supreme Court judgement on Thursday, granting autonomy to the local governments in the country. The court in a landmark ruling ordered all state…
By News Desk The arraignment of Mr Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was, on Thursday, stalled after he collapsed outside the courtroom of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed before the case was called. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, told…
By News Desk The supreme court has ruled that the federal government should henceforth pay allocations directly to local government councils from the federation account. Delivering judgment in the suit on Thursday, a seven-member panel of justices held that state governments have continued to abuse their powers by retaining and using the funds meant for…
News Desk The family of Iretiogo Akanro, who died during a CT scan at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta, Ogun State, has said it will sue the hospital for her ‘avoidable’ death. Alleging negligence, it added it will also demand N700 million from the hospital. Iretiogo (fondly called Ireti), it said, had persistent cough and…
By News Desk The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will today arraign former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Osun Defender reports that Mamman, who was a minister under former President Muhammadu Buhari from 2019 to 2021, was sacked by Buhari alongside the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,…
Daga Musa Tanimu Nasidi Ali Ndume, babban lauyan majalisar dattawa, ya ce shugaban kasa Bola Tinubu ya rufe kofarsa kan wasu ministocinsa. Sanatan ya yi magana ne kan tabarbarewar tattalin arziki da karancin abinci a kasar. A wata hira da BBC Hausa a ranar Talata, Ndume ya ce ‘yan majalisar dokokin kasar ba su da…
By THEANALYSTNG Ali Ndume, chief whip of the senate, says President Bola Tinubu has shut his doors on some of his ministers. The senator was speaking on the economic hardship and food insecurity in the country. In an interview with BBC Hausa Monitored in Lokoja on Tuesday, Ndume said members of the national assembly do…
By Reno Omokri One thing I find remarkable about many of us Southern Nigerians is how we often feel that people from Northern Nigeria are educationally inferior or behind. Actually, that is a fallacy, and the delusion of that fallacy is why they continue to dominate Nigeria politically. Because being underestimated is a blessing. The…
By News Desk Shaibu Yusuf, the man who climbed mast in Abuja to protest the state of the nation.Shaibu Yusuf, the man who climbed mast in Abuja to protest the state of the nation. The police command in the federal capital territory (FCT) says Shaibu Yusuf, who climbed a broadcast mast in Abuja, will be…
By Iliyasu Zakari An unprecedented event occurred today at the Lokoja LGA Council Hall as the Staff in Local Government Secretariat throng into the Hall to celebrate the extension of the tenure of the Local Government Caretaker Chairman. The DLG, Alh. Musa Omuwa in his address stated that the event is unprecedented in history of…
