…Yoruba race. Afolabi urged the president, governors, and all national and federal legislators to promote policies, programmes and projects that would tackle the prevailing issues and challenges in Nigeria as a matter of national emergency. “The leaders must remember that the Nigerian Constitution they all swore to upho…

President of GLOBE Legislators International, Rt Hon Sam Onuigbo, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election for a second term as a matter of urgent national importance, saying the stakes for the 2027 presidential election are higher than they were in 2023. Onuigbo, a former two-term member of the House of…

…President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, hundreds of federal and state legislators and other senior officials to Osun in an effort to secure victory for President Bola Tinubu’s party. “The people of Osun have shown Nigerians that no political machine is greater than a determined electorate,” Abdullahi sa…

…targeted at foreign nationals. The prominent conference brings together over 300 legislators and officials from across the continent to address critical issues pertaining to democracy, human rights, and regional cooperation. During the debate, the Nigerian representatives demanded that the recent attacks on foreigners…

…was neither an opposition alliance nor a political pressure group but a collective of legislators concerned about what they called the steady erosion of democratic institutions. “Our membership cuts across political parties, regions and ideological differences. We are neither an opposition platform nor an instrument of…

The Ogun State Executive Council has approved the construction of 450 housing units, new official quarters for members of the State House of Assembly, the reconstruction of the Ogun State Governor's Lodge in Abuja, the rehabilitation of strategic roads across the state and the upgrading of some traditional stools. The …

…because it was founded on an incompetent suit filed by the National Forum of Former Legislators (NFFL), a body that lacked the legal capacity to institute the action. Justice Lifu Delivering the lead judgment, Justice Abba Mohammed held that the trial court wrongly assumed jurisdiction, ignored uncontroverted evidence…

…provide more than enough material for serious engagement. Nigerians are not asking for legislators who never disagree. They are asking for legislators who understand that the Red Chamber is not a stage and public service is not a performance. Because while Big Brother Naija crowns winners at the end of every season, de…

…Speaker’s possession of the Assembly’s mace could frustrate the lawmakers’ plan. “We are legislators. Don’t teach us our job. We know what to do when the time comes,” he stated. The latest development has further heightened the leadership crisis in the Ondo State House of Assembly, with the Speaker’s fate now dependent…

“Legislators have the first place in the temple of glory; conquerors come behind them” – Voltaire, 1694-1778, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 126 When one of the world’s leading philosophers made that remark in the eighteenth century, democracy was a new idea. What another sage, half a world away, in America, descr…

Kwara female lawmaker, Hon. Rukayat Shittu, was among female legislators from across Africa who participated in the West Africa Female Parliamentarians Peer Review Conference on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), held in Accra, Ghana. The three-day conference, organised by the Women in Politics Forum (WIPF…

…Birni, two days before the deadly raids on the three villages.Attempts to reach the two legislators representing Sabon Birni in the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Hon. Aminu Boza and Hon. Sa'idu Ibrahim, proved unsuccessful, with calls to both going unanswered.The state police spokesman, DSP Ahmad Rufa'i, said he had…

…case is FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2026. The Incorporated Trustees of the National Forum of Former Legislators instituted the suit against INEC, the African Democratic Congress, Accord, Action Alliance, Action People's Party and Zenith Labour Party. The plaintiff challenged the continued participation of the affected political pa…

…saying he found merit in the suit filed against them by the National Forum of Former Legislators, NFFL. The NFFL had, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2637/2026, asked the court to determine whether INEC has a constitutional obligation to remove political parties that fail to meet the electoral performance thresholds set…

…Even though the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the majority party, opposition legislators actively took part in the process that approved the state police initiative. They exercised their discretion in favour of the proposal, mainly in the national interest and not on a parochial basis. In the Senate, for instance,…

…Even though the All Progressives Congress is the majority party, opposition legislators actively took part in the process that approved the state police initiative. "They exercised their discretion in favour of the proposal, mainly in the national interest and not on a parochial basis. In the Senate, for instance, 84 o…

…Even though the All Progressives Congress is the majority party, opposition legislators actively took part in the process that approved the state police initiative. "They exercised their discretion in favour of the proposal, mainly in the national interest and not on a parochial basis. In the Senate, for instance, 84 o…

…or his dubious nature that enabled him to hold meetings with foreign delegations, legislators and public officials. "At some point, we must separate an individual's alleged conduct from the institutional systems that either enabled it or failed to detect it," he said. He noted that public records had reportedly shown t…

…Robots can do anything human beings can do. “So we are looking at that area. I wish our legislators and professors of law will take time and come together to look at this area and come up with laws that will help us in the area of AI,” the EFCC Chairman pleaded. Meanwhile, in his keynote address at the event, a former…

…Nigeria's Climate Change Act, Rt Hon. Sam Onuigbo, will assume leadership of the global legislators' organisation during London Climate Action Week. The event, which runs from June 23 to 26 and includes the inaugural Nigeria Climate Investment Summit in London, will also coincide with the 35th anniversary of GLOBE Inte…

…President recalled one of the speaker's earlier remarks at the event questioning why legislators conform. "You have to ask yourself: Those who did not conform, where did they find themselves politically? Very few people are strong enough to stand and fight against the strong arm of the executive", Saraki said. "That is…

…of controversy The dispute originated from a suit filed by the National Forum of Former Legislators, which asked the Federal High Court to compel INEC to deregister five political parties for allegedly failing to satisfy the constitutional threshold under Section 225A of the Constitution. The group argued that the affe…

…to the Northern elite - governors, commissioners, Hisbah boards, traditional rulers, and legislators - has been making the rounds. Written by a fellow Northerner, Dr Zainab Suleiman Buhari, and published in the Daily Trust, it delivered a bitter, hurtful truth that acts as Dan Fodio's healing balm on the open wound of…