Legislative Agenda: Rising cost of living, insecurity, other issues confronting 10th House of Reps

“I cannot afford to continue to drive down to work again, I have packed the car,” Saliu Muhammed, a civil servant at Nigeria’s Ministry of Education, laments as he struggles to stretch his legs. He is riding back home from work in the back seat of a saloon car – one of six passengers in […]

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Nigeria on the path to greatness again

By Opeyemi Bamidele Yesterday, the National Assembly, the truest custodian and guardian of Nigeria’s democracy, resumed plenary after a 49-day annual recess. Contrary to what most people believe, annual recess is not a period of recreation or vacation for us as representatives of the people across 109 senatorial districts and 360 federal constituencies nationwide. Rather, […]

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End police checkpoint extortion and explore technology

IGP Kayode Egbetokun Responding to recent questions regarding the indiscriminate checkpoints across the country that disrupt the flow of traffic and encourage extortion and other inappropriate behaviours by police officers, the acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, stated that the Nigeria Police Force cannot vacate the checkpoints. He added that checkpoints are vibrant parts of […]

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Extrajudicial killings: Tinubu, end the Army, DSS impunity

Twenty-four years into civilian rule, extrajudicial killings are rising and undermining human rights and democracy in Nigeria. Last Thursday, police in the Federal Capital Territory put down a violent protest following a report that agents of the Department of State Services had killed a fashion designer and injured several other persons. Although it later emerged […]

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LG system is broken, needs urgent reform

Farce descended recently on Ogun State over the operations of its local governments, drawing attention to Nigeria’s broken LG system. A dispute blew open when the Chairman of Ijebu East LG, Wale Adedayo, accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the statutory funds of the state’s LGs. The state government promptly denied the allegations. Then events […]

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