2023: Don’t Donate Campaign Funds to Parties with Corruption Records, HURIWA Urges Nigerians
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Friday, harped on the need for financial accountability and transparency among all the 18 political parties in Nigeria as the country heads to the poll in 2023….
Supreme Court Strikes out Request for Review Of Own Judgment On PDP Guber Candidate
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has struck out a request by a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi, Senator Joseph Ogba, to review its final judgment of September 14, 2022, which upheld Chukwuma Ifeanyi as the governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic…
Nigeria: Truss’s Ephemeral Rule And Lessons
By Emmanuel Onwubiko The prime minister of one of the World’s most powerful democracies and Nigeria’s erstwhile colonial administrators prior to independence in 1960, Liz Truss of Great Britain spoke outside Downing Street to announce her resignation. Having spent just…
Delta 2022: Okowa Tasks Contractors on Projects’ Delivery
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has urged contractors handling projects on facilities for 21st National Sports Festival being hosted by the state to redouble their efforts…
HURIWA Demands Probe Of ESN Members Allegedly Killed, Buried By Nigerian Army
Prominent civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Thursday, demanded a transparent probe into the alleged killing of scores of members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), during military air raids in a community in…
Mental Health and Drugs: A Nexus
By Emmanuel Onwubiko Adamu Bamidele Ikokwu (not real name) is one of the sons of the very senior politician in one of the communities not far away from Lagos. He was schooled in some of the best British affiliated schools…
Nnamdi Kanu: Your Appeal Amidst Disobedience Is Sacrilegious – HURIWA to Federal Government
Stating that disrespecting the binding judgment of the court of Appeal on the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and appealing at the Supreme Court against the same decision you disrespected amounted to a legal…
Energy Transition A Developmental Opportunity, But Africa Needs To Engage Critically, Vocally – Osinbajo
The current global energy transition is both an opportunity for the preservation of the earth and a vehicle for unlocking the development potential and livelihoods of millions of people, especially those in developing countries. However, the transition must also be…
Amidst Russian-Ukraine War, Foreign Interests in Nigeria’s Coal Increases — Adegbite
The Honourable Minister of Mines and Steel Development arc Olamilekan Adegbite has revealed that the ongoing energy challenge in Europe ocassioned by the Russian-Ukraine War has increased foreign interests in Nigeria’s coal. The minister also disclosed that the prime minister…
Lagos Speaker Obasa Mourns Afuye, Speaks On What Will Be Missed About Late Ekiti Speaker
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the death of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Oluwafunminiyi Afuye, as a huge loss to the body of Speakers in Nigeria….
Federal Treasury Academy Matriculates New Students
Determined to tackle manpower deficit in the accounting departments of federal ministries and establishments, the Federal government of Nigeria has enrolled new students into the Federal Treasury Academy (FTA) Orozo, Abuja. The overseeing Director of the Office of the Accountant-General…
