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ANXIETY, CONCERN AS FRSC FAILS TO DELIVER ON DRIVER’S LICENSE Anxiety is growing in the last six months over the inability of the Federal Road Service Commission (FRSC) to attend to the avalanche of driver’s license applications from Nigerians across the country. Under this period, the FRSC has not been able to issue Nigerians new licences nor renew old ones. …

WHY WE’RE PUSHING FOR SIX-YEAR SINGLE TENURE FOR PRESIDENT – PROF NNAMCHI Recently, a group of 35 members of the House of Representatives initiated moves for the further alteration of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to provide for a single term of six years for the president and state governors, as well as provision for vice president and rotation of …

NASS TOLD TO PROBE INEC OVER POOR PERFORMANCE IN 2023 ELECTION The 10th National Assembly has been urged to urgently commence the role played by the Independent Electoral Commission INEC in the 2023 general election, why the outcome failed to meet up with the expectations of Nigerians and international community and how it expended over four hundred billion naira N400bn …

CDS MUSA ACCUSES FINLAND, EUROPEAN UNION OF SHIELDING SIMON EKPA The Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa, has accused the Finnish government and the European Union of shielding Simon Ekpa, a controversial Biafra agitator. The alleged cover has enabled Mr Ekpa to continue to incite, through social media, violence in Nigeria’s South-east state, Mr Musa said. Mr Musa, a major …

GANDUJE BASTARDIZED KANO TRADITIONAL INSTITUTION – EMIR SANUSI The 14th and 16th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, has opened up on the crisis bedevilling the Kano traditional stool since his appointment as the 16th Emir of Kano. Sanusi, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, …

TRAGEDY OF ROADS IN SOUTH EAST As Nigeria celebrates 25 years of unbroken democratic rule, there are a number of challenges that pre-date the current democratic dispensation. Among the many challenges that the people have lived with over the years is a long history of dilapidated infrastructure. To say that roads across the country are in bad shape is an …

TINUBU APPOINTS GOVERNING COUNCIL OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS President Bola Tinubu appoints 255 individuals to govern councils of federal tertiary institutions, including prominent figures like Bisi Akande and Wole Olanipekun. President Bola Tinubu has recently reconstituted the governing councils and boards for federal tertiary institutions across Nigeria, marking a significant overhaul in leadership roles. According to a statement from Nnamdi Mbaeri, …

PRESSURE MOUNTS ON APC CHAIRMAN, GANDUJE, TO RESIGN Indications have emerged that governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are prevailing and mounting pressure on President Bola Tinubu to sacrifice the party’s national chairman and former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, and allow for his replacement from any of the states in the North Central zone. Although party …

IPOB TELLS SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS TO CANCEL CONTRACTS WITH EEDC The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has asked governors in the South East to cancel all power contracts with Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) for allegedly impeding the development of the Region. The group stated that the company was incapable of providing reliable, adequate, and affordable electricity to support the …

20 STATES DENY WORKERS WAGE AWARD, LABOUR KICKS The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has described refusal of some states to pay the wage award to their workers as the height of insensitivity, lamenting the suffering workers were going through as a result of the… Eight months after the Federal Government commenced payment of N35,000, a wage award in addition to …