The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria has commended Delta State for being one of the few states that have implemented financial autonomy for states’ legislature and judiciary...

Why do state governors take active interest in the running of state legislatures, especially in the selection of Speakers? This is the question that agitates the minds of Nigerians following the confusion in some states’ Houses of Assembly. In Edo State, history seems to have repeated itself because just as in 2014, when the then…

The three-man petitions tribunal for the governorship/ national and state assembly elections yesterday began sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. The panel granted eight of the 30 ex-parte applications filed before it. The chairman, Justice Vincent Agbata, promised that they would be “transparent, fair and firm in their dealings with all parties”, warning…

The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to resume from Tuesday, the collation of the governorship election result in Bauchi State and may declare the winner of the poll, hitherto ruled as inconclusive. The commission announced the decision in a press statement on Friday night after resolving some issues around the result of Tafawa Balewa…