Governance
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Former home secretary ‘absolutely stands by’ steps taken to protect vulnerable people By March 2022, the counsel to the COVID inquiry, Hugo Keith KC, says it was clear there had been an increase in online child abuse and recourse to abuse helplines due to lockdown measures. He asks Dame Priti Patel if she believes the…
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Leaders shared concerns that a lack of confidence in policing could ‘spill over into public order issues’ – Patel The inquiry’s counsel Hugo Keith KC now moves to discuss data released in June 2020. He says it showed there was a “disproportionate imposition of fixed penalty notices on people of black and ethnic minority backgrounds.” …
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Labour using Braverman row to attack PM The row over Suella Braverman is a gift to Labour, and not just because it provides a welcome distraction from their own internal divisions over the issue of a ceasefire in Gaza. The party’s big hitters have been out in force to capitalise on the situation today –…
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The Senate on Thursday said any head of ministries, departments and agencies of government who absented from the 2024-2026 MTEF/FSP interactive sessions should be sacked. The upper legislative chamber has made it mandatory for physical appearances of heads of government agencies at MTF/FSP sittings, while they called on President Bola Tinubu to sack any unserious…
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Top news from Nigeria today 9/11/2023 Good evening from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday insisted that electronic collation of results is illegal in Nigeria. The commission said this against the backdrop of expectations that the results of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi and…
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Moscow claimed on Monday that the protests at an airport in the Russian Republic of Dagestan were the result of a “planned external provocation” by Ukraine. “The mass riots … that occurred in the Republic of Dagestan are the result of a planned and carried out external provocation aimed at undermining the harmonious development and…
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A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekeni Nabena, has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, Atiku Abubakar, can not take the nation back to the desert. Atiku had accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of forgery at a press conference on Thursday,…
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• Fear rises over selloff of assets linked to African countries• Protecting democracy in Africa paramount priority, Canadian PM tells Tinubu• Tinubu: Rule of law, electoral dispute resolution must not perish in Africa• Gabon coup underscores slippery France’s influence in African – Expert• ECOWAS urged to initiate new economic roadmap on poverty, insecurity, youth unemployment…
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The Enugu State Government has ordered a thorough investigation of the reported sudden death of students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Agbani. It declared that the Governor Peter Mbah administration was ever committed to a continued safe and better learning environment at the institution. Speaking during a visit to ESUT,…
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has disproved claims of manipulation of external powers in its efforts to resolve the political instability in Niger Republic. ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Abdel-Fatau Musah made this known in a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday. The West African bloc…
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Former national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and public affairs commentator, Maxi Okwu, has said that despite the growing anger and frustration in Nigeria occasioned by the sudden removal of fuel subsidy by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a nationwide revolution is definitely not on the cards. He said the ethnic and religious…
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Good morning from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Oil marketers, on Sunday, indicated that the cost of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, would rise to between N680/litre and N720/litre in the coming weeks should the dollar continue to trade from N910 to N950 at the parallel market. They also hinted that…
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Good evening from Meziesblog! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has announced daily nationwide protests and picketing of federal health institutions. In a notice issued on Saturday, the association which is currently on a nationwide indefinite strike said the protest will commence on Wednesday, 9th August at…
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Senators have rejected the request by President Bola Tinubu for permission to deploy Nigerian troops to Niger Republic as part of an ECOWAS force to reinstate the democratically elected president of the country, President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed on 26 July in a coup led by his presidential guards. ECOWAS leaders at a meeting in…
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THE recent coup in Niger against the democratically elected government of Mohammed Bazoum has again thrown into the front burner the fate of liberal democracy in Africa, in particular the West African sub-region. Since the ‘Third Wave’ of democracy started in the continent in the 1990s, there has been a certain belief that liberal democracy,…
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