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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 4 May 2021 Between 1999 and 2007 (eight years), five Senate presidents emerged from the five South-East states: one from each of the states. It is a point used to ridicule the South-East geopolitical zone as incapable of working as one. But those who make that argument miss the underlying point in that scenario. Between 2007 and 2019, a period of 12 years, one person from the South-East, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, was the Deputy Senate President. The South-East ...

Reflections on Police Reform Mon May 03 2021 Police is an integral part of every country’s national security architecture, and police reforms are a vital part of security sector reform and an important component of peacebuilding/state building. Against the backdrop of the ongoing national policy debate on the Senate bill on police reforms, we offer these reflections on reforming policing in Nigeria. In principle, every police reform effort is country-specific, but guided by a set of global be...

•Wants calls for secession dropped •Lagos to install 2000 security cameras National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said the country is yet to recover from consequences of the civil war, therefore, cannot afford to experience another one. He urged those clamouring for secession to jettison the idea because the country is better together than being separated. In his goodwill message at a special Ramadan lecture held at Lagos House, Marina, yesterday, Tinubu...

Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze argue that the pressing need is to devolve policing powers to the states Police are integral part of every country’s national security architecture, and police reforms are a vital part of security sector reform and an important component of peacebuilding/state building. Against the backdrop of the ongoing national policy debate on the Senate bill on police reforms, we offer these reflections on reforming policing in Nigeria. In principle, every police...

+ Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, revealed on Friday that he has no plans to relocate to Accra yet though the social networking service has set up its African office in Ghana. According to Ghana Web, Ghanaian Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, had disclosed that Jack is expected to relocate Accra in June 2021. “Jack will be based in Accra, so this will be his base while he visits the other countries on the continent and I am hoping that his friends would also follow him and see wh...

  A federal lawmaker on Thursday said the National Assembly will move to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari if the Executive does not act on its security resolutions. The House of Representatives on Wednesday inaugurated a 40-man committee to find a solution to the country’s security challenges, including but not limited to an insurgency in the North-East, banditry in the North-West, secessionist agitations in the South-East and Fulani-Herdsmen crises across the Middle-Belt and several South...

Ex-PDP National spokesman, Chukwuemeka Eze blasts Wike over Rivers LG poll Published A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Chukwuemeka Eze has blasted Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike over the recently concluded local government council election held across the State. In a release made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday, Eze, an erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), described the exercise as a sham and of no significance...

Ex-gov Aliyu donated money to other parties in 2019 –PDP Published 1:12 am The Peoples’ Democratic Party in Niger State has said former governor Babangida Aliyu remains suspended for his role in undermining the PDP and ensuring that former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential elections. The Party leaders and faithful in the three senatorial district of the state reaffirmed their support for the suspension of Aliyu through their spokesman, Mallam Yahaya Usman. The PDP spoke...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12:37 am OLUFEMI OLANIYI examines how the lingering feud between Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and ex-governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, after the South-West Peoples Democratic Party congress could affect the party’s chances in the 2023 general elections The congress of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, held on Monday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, passed but its outcome has worsened the bitter rivalry between Governor Seyi Makinde o...

APC can’t repeat Imo governorship drama in Anambra — Oye, APGA chair The Punch Published 12:33 am The National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, Dr Victor Oye, tells TONY OKAFOR, his views on the attack on one of the party’s aspirants in the forthcoming Anambra State November 6 governorship poll, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, among other issues There has been some political stability in Anambra State until gunmen attacked one of the governorship aspirants on the platfo...