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Eze Onyekpere The Nigerian constitution of 1999 is called the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999. The relevant word for the purpose of this discourse is the word “federal” which recognises the various tiers of government that make up the federation. The constitution provides for the distribution of powers and separate management of financial and other resources among the tiers of government. However, recent events in the recovery of looted assets, especially judicial decisions have thrown up challenges and issues which question the federal structure and call for deep reflection on the justice and propriety of the decisions.…

The immediate-past Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, wednesday said recycling the old order in Nigeria cannot get the country out of the woods in all areas of development. The former governor, therefore, called for reorder of government operational system for national development. Mimiko made the call in his remark when the Executive Council and leaders of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, paid him a visit to commiserate with him on the death of his mother, Mama Muinat Mimiko, at his Ondo City residence. According to him, If the leadership of this country continued to…

An Abuja High Court has sentenced the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Olusegun Runsewe, to prison. Justice Jude Okeke made the order on Thursday while ruling on a motion drawn from a suit filed by Ummakalif Limited against Minister of the FCT, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), DG of NCAC, and the Minister for Culture and Tourism, as the first, second, third and fourth defendants respectively. In the motion, the claimant sought an order of the court committing Runsewe to prison for contempt of court order made on December 15, 2017. Justice Okeke described Runsewe’s…

China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago. Lead scientist Xu Jianguo told the official Xinhua news agency that experts had “preliminarily determined” a new type of coronavirus was behind the outbreak, first confirmed on December 31 in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million. It initially sparked fears of a resurgence of highly contagious Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and prompted authorities in Hong Kong — badly hit by…

Prince Harry and his celebrity wife Meghan’s bombshell resignation from front-line royal duties rocked the British monarchy on Thursday, with reports suggesting Queen Elizabeth II had not been informed in advance. The couple said they would now “balance” their time between Britain and North America and rip up long-established relations with the press, in a surprise statement Wednesday that appeared to catch Buckingham Palace off guard. In a short, terse response a short time later, a palace statement said discussions with Harry and Meghan were “at an early stage”. “We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these…

•Vouches for Buhari not to nurse third-term agenda National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, yesterday described the agitation for presidency in 2023 in this early hours of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term as wrong and untimely. He told State House reporters in Abuja after holding a closed-door meeting with the president that anyone who had the interest of the country at heart would not be discussing issues bordering on the 2023 presidential election now. Tinubu, while responding to a question on his perception about the clamour by some northern politicians to retain presidency in the…

• Says security masterplan near perfection • Decries dearth of reading culture among youths • Donates land to build National Library Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun yesterday said that with the communication components being “mainstreamed” into the state architecture, security arrangement would be near perfection in the state. Abiodun pledged that when in operation, criminals would have no hiding place. “Not only would the tracking devices ensure smooth communication among the security outfits in the state, they would also ensure that all patrol teams are where they claim to be,” the governor stated. He spoke when he received the Assistant…

• Okorie, Igbo group disagree with APC national leader • ‘Jonathan not under pressure to contest 2023 election’ The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday said it was too early to debate which zone of the country should produce the next president. He cautioned that such a debate would negatively affect the pace of governance by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Essentially, Tinubu, who spoke to State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday cautioned that discussing 2023 presidency now would distract the administration from providing…

‘Tunde Adeparusi Despite her potential for greatness, a large population with great human capital (i.e. a dynamic workforce), enormous natural resources, growing economy, raw materials and great reservoir of oil deposits which presents her as the largest exporter of crude oil in the entire African region, Nigeria, as a nation, has absolutely no excuse for being a society that would allow its systems to deteriorate to such an extent where corrupt practices become the norm and insecurity the order of the day. Nigeria should not fit such a case study! Although societies vary in terms of approach, methodology and policy…

Charles Onunaiju The bumbling Washington’s regime of Mr. Donald Trump has finally crossed the line; cold-bloodily assassinating formal top actor of another state on the street. Major General Qassem Solemaini is not a shadowy chief of a murderous extremist band or a boss of a violent drug cartel, not even a commander of a rebel army or a rogue general on the run. He was a charismatic general of an established and legally recognised institution of a formal state. Solemaini was the military commander of Iran’s elite Quds force or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the equivalent of the US Special…