Category: FEATURES

Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, Prof Chidi Odinkalu has taken to his official X  account to react after court stopped the Central Bank  of Nigeria from releasing allocations to the government of Rivers state. According to PUNCH, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing monthly financial allocations to Rivers State Government. According to a post that Prof Chidi Odinkalu made on his page on Wednesday, he said 20 years ago when Bola Ahmed Tinubu was…

Thousands of primary and secondary school children and teachers across Cross River State were stranded Thursday morning following the sudden declaration of a two-day public holiday by Governor Bassey Otu. According to a press release by the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Nsa Gill, the public holiday is to allow teachers, public officials, and other citizens to travel to their respective wards and local government areas to participate in the local government and ward elections. Gill released the announcement late last night, by which time many school authorities…

Bayelsa Governor, Senator Douye Diri has faulted Nigeria’s brand of federalism where only the federal government can create local government, describing it as an aberration. Governor Diri also said Nigeria was on the wrong development path and needed to turn back. Delivering a lecture titled: “Rethinking Our Future: The Need For True Federalism and Economic Renaissance,” at the 64th Founders’ Day Lecture of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Enugu, the Bayelsa governor averred that states should constitutionally have the right to create and legislate on local governments in a…

Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has expressed disappointment over the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which ordered the seizure of statutory allocations to Rivers State Government. Naijaonpoint reported on Wednesday that Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Abuja Federal High Court declared that Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s presentation of the 2024 budget before a four-member Rivers House of Assembly contradicted Constitutional provisions. She criticized Fubara’s ongoing receipt and use of monthly federal allocations since January, calling it a Constitutional…

A nascent Niger Delta Militia Group christened Niger Delta Development Force, NDDF, has threatened to blow up oil installations in the Niger Delta should President Bola Tinubu refuses to rein in and stop the meddlesomeness of the Minister of the Federal Capital territory, Nyesom Wike, in the administration of Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State. NDDF said they are particularly piqued over plot by Wike to use a friendly Judge to rule in his favor stopping Local Government allocations to the state on Monday. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal…

It is with great pain and to the Will of the Almighty God that I accept the transition to Glory of my political father, mentor and a great leader of outstanding personality, Chief (Dr) Engr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu CFR, OFR MFR, (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo). Chief Iwuanyanwu was my role model, leader with many parts, very compassionate, easy going, inspiring and motivational with a touch of class. His exit will leave a vacuum too difficult to fill. He was everything to different individuals that came across him. As a man with unlimited contacts,…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has strongly criticized the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, urging them to cease their “insincere” policy advisories that are suffocating Nigerians. This statement follows remarks made by Abebe Selassie, the IMF’s African Region Director, during a press conference at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, DC. Selassie characterized the Nigerian government’s decision to eliminate the fuel subsidy as a domestic matter, distancing the IMF from the resulting hardships that Nigerians are experiencing. The NLC responded with skepticism to the…