Newly elected local government chairmen have resumed work in thirty-two local government councils in Oyo State. The State Chief Judge, Justice Munta Abimbola, led the new local government chairmen to recite their oath of office at a ceremony in the capital, Ibadan. Governor Seyi Makinde was also present at the event, during which he challenge the new…
Pressure is being mounted on Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State Government to order the release of two activists – Larry Emmanuel and Victor Anene Udoka. Twenty-eight-year-old Emmanuel and thirty-two-year-old Udoka have been in detention for forty-nine days, after they were arrested for taking part in a protest on April 5, 2021. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability…
A group of Igbo professionals has called for the withdrawal of a shoot-at-sight order to the police in response to the security challenge in the South-East. The group known as Nzuko Umunna claims that the order was issued by the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, during the launch Operation Restore Peace in Enugu last…
The Governors of Lagos and Ogun states have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Lagos-Ogun Joint Development Commission. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State travelled to Abeokuta where he joined his Ogun State counterpart, Dapo Abiodun, for the ceremony. In his remarks; Governor Sanwo-Olu said Lagos and Ogun states have so much in common and much…
Soldiers have detained the Interim President and Prime Minister of Mali in what is being seen as a second coup in ten months. President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane are being detained alongside the Defence Minister Souleymane Doucouré at the Kati military camp near the capital, Bamako. Reports say the military action followed a changes…
A professor of law, Itse Sagay, has advised governors of the seventeen southern states to send bills to their state assemblies for the making of a law to back the ban on open grazing. Professor Sagay said the ban on open grazing cannot be enforced without the signing of a law, which could help in the prosecution…