While engaging in regional advocacy activities in the South Eastern States not too long ago, two major human rights issues confronted us and these are the sudden unprecedented re-emergence of illegal police check-points and the rapidly declining and shrinking democratic space in the run up to next year’s elections which is only few months away.
Browsing: Senator Ike Ekweremadu
Rumours made rounds in the state that the National Assembly seats, including Anambra North Senatorial District, presently occupied by the Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, has been negotiated out to APGA for 2015
The trouble started when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Senator Andy Uba (PDP Anambra South), stood up to applaud INEC for a job well done on the Ekiti State governorship election
The Senate, in a resolution after meeting, said the debate was stood down to enable them consult with various stakeholders in order to ensure that everybody buys into the extension emergency rule
ccording to Ekweremadu, the alteration being proposed on Section 9 “is to make provision for the President, in addition to the National Assembly, to initiate the process of a new constitution”
Ekweremadu made this known in Abuja at the opening of a three-day International Conference on: “Promoting Credible Election in Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges in Information and Communications Technology
He said: “We believe that we now have a bloc that can speak for the people of West Africa
The meeting, which started at 2pm and lasted barely two hours, was presided over by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and attended by party chieftains, including President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo and Speaker Aminu Tambuwal
Granted that there are provisions introduced by the Senate Constitution amendment committee like the controversial single six year tenure provision which are debatable, one fact is that the current social engineering of amending Nigeria’s extant constitution if properly anchored, will positively change the tempo of delivery of democracy dividends and will embolden key institutions to make independent decisions and policies to serve the public good without let or hindrance by the emperor-like powers that the governors enjoy under the constitution being amended
President Jonathan is being criticised by the opposition for purportedly nursing a presidential ambition in 2015 even when he is alleged to have promised to do only one term
The third edition of the Ike-Oha U-18 Unity Football championship ended on Friday in Enugu with Udi Local Government Area emerging champions, with an emphatic 2-0 win over their Aninri counterparts
Ogbodo, the Political Editor, Northern Operations of The Guardian, died in an auto crash at Achijili, near Anyigba in Kogi State
The councils stated this position when their chiefs, accompanied by senators, House of Representatives members from the state and other major stakeholders visited the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee of the National Assembly, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, in Abuja
Jonathan hurriedly flew home on Thursday night from Davos, Switzerland where he was attending the World Economic Forum
This is the second terminal to be commissioned in the ongoing airport remodelling project, initiated by President Goodluck Jonathan
The President said the news of the death was “very shocking, sad and regrettable” as the late Prince Ekweremadu still had “many years ahead of him to accomplish more goals in life”