NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is facing the threat of losing its parliamentary majority in the upper chamber of the National Assembly after about 20 of its senators have announced plans to defect to other parties.
Next year, Nigeria goes to the polls and as is the custom when elections looms, politicians...
NIGERIA'S Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) is planning to deploy additional machines and ad hoc staff for next year's general elections after being told by the National Assembly to extend the voter registration by 60 days.
In February next year, Nigeria goes to the polls but with voter registration not as...
Ayo Akinfe
Today is June 12, Nigeria's Democracy Day, so I am going to use the occasion to present a document to Nigeria's leading presidential candidates. On June 7 in 1776, Richard Lee from Virginia moved the US Declaration of Independence in Congress. How about someone moves our Declaration of Economic Independence in the...
Ayo Akinfe
Sign a document that you as president will get the National Assembly to pass a bill compelling the following states to generate at least $10bn annually from these products:
Taraba - Wildlife sanctuary
Ondo - Cocoa, Kolanuts and Palm Oil
Bayelsa - Shipbuilding
Borno - Cattle colony
Zamfara - Solar farm
Katsina...
Ayo Akinfe
I will offer free tuition right up until the end of secondary school
Under my watch, Nigeria will spend 15% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on education
I will provide free uniforms in all public schools
My government will offer one free school meal for all primary and secondary school pupils
No primary...
MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in the senate have wished vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo good luck in his quest to lead Nigeria after he hosted the legislators to an Iftar dinner at his official residence yesterday.
On Monday, Professor Osinbajo formally joined the 2023 presidential race,...
Ayo Akinfe
Tell all the state governors that as from October 1, we plan to scrap the federal allocation regime. They thus have to get their states self-reliant
Scrap government subsidies on all religious pilgrimages. If you want to go to Saudi Arabia or Israel, you are on your own
Scrap all government payments to traditional...
AIR Peace chairman Allen Onyema has warned that all local airlines operating within Nigeria will have to shut down their operations in three days time as a result of the ongoing fuel scarcity.
Over recent weeks, Nigeria has been plagued by a chronic shortage of petroleum products like petrol, kerosene and aviation fuel....
LAWMAKERS in both chambers of Nigeria's National Assembly voted to reject diaspora voting tonight as they refused to support a constitutional amendment that would have allowed Nigerians living outside the country to participate in the 2023 elections.
In a major setback for diaspora organisations, like the Central Association...
MEMBERS of Nigeria's National Assembly have begun debating a controversial bill that grant life pensions to its presiding officers like the senate president and the speaker of the House of Representatives among others.
Nigerian lawmakers are among the highest paid in the world, which causes a great deal of consternation...
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