Prof. Adele Jinadu, lead speaker at a conference organised by Section on Public Interest and Development Law, an arm of the NBA made this call on Thursday in Abuja.
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This is to deal with the current deteriorating state of security characterised by persistent losses of lives of innocent Nigerians in the hands of armed groups.
To put effect to the resolution, the upper chamber directed its Committee on Constitution Amendment headed by Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, to submit its report within two weeks.
His own achievements in the area of security as Governor of Sokoto State, which ended the dreadful banditry of restive youths he inherited when he was sworn is as Governor in the state, leaves him in no doubt that is is all a question of method, strategy and the will to follow things through
Osinbajo made the remarks while delivering a lecture at the special parliamentary session in commemoration of the third anniversary of the 8th Assembly of Lagos State House of Assembly held at its hallowed chambers in Alausa, Ikeja
It is time for all southern traditional and political leaders to rise and hold a Southern and Middle Belt meeting on restructuring immediately. A communique from such a strategic meeting should aim to: boycott elections for the ethnic groups in the Middle Belt and the South; demand restructuring along the six geopolitical zonal lines
Ogundimu, the Chairman of Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Finance, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The Lagos State Chairman of the party, Fatai Ibu-Owo, made the party’s position known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, said this while briefing State House Correspondents on the outcome of the forum’s meeting in Abuja
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State stated this while submitting the committee’s report to the APC National Working Committee on Thursday in Abuja
The AGF gave the advice in his address at the opening of a two-day retreat organised by the Southern Senators’ Forum in Calabar, Cross River State on Friday
The APC in the zone said the ill-feelings of not belonging in the scheme of things had fuelled current agitations in the zone
The Vice President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity made the clarifications in Abuja and while speaking on a radio programme on Orange FM in Akure, Ondo State amidst some media reports that Osinbajo opposed the restructuring of the country because of his reported comments during a question-and-answer session at the Second Foundation Day Lecture of the Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin in Ondo State last week
The former governor said such excuse was not as important as the loss of lives and property being experienced at present
Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat is currently the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Lagos State. He had served as Commissioner for Science & Technology. Obafemi, the brilliant son of Pa Olatunji Hamzat, an influential politician in Lagos, in this interview with FUNSHO AKINWALE, spoke extensively on his ambition to rule Lagos State
The Conference adopted the recommendation that any state that requires it shall establish a police force to be operated and run by the state
Although the meeting was held behind closed doors, but a reliable source told The Eagle Online that while a former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Jimeta Gambo, insisted that there should be no state police, his Co-Chairman, Chief A. K. Horsefall said that the country needed state police
Under the existing Constitution, the Police is on the Exclusive Legislative List, which makes it a solely federal matter only the National Assembly could legislate upon
Others included limiting the powers of the central government and the federating units and immunity of certain public officers from prosecution
Abubakar, who marked two years in office as the nation’s number one cop at the weekend, said this in an exclusive interview published in the latest edition of the Chief Detective magazine