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27 Jun 2021
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...
4 Jul 2019
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…
2 Apr 2019
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…
16 Mar 2019
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…
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Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for leading a decades-long effort to recruit and trap teenagers and women for sex. Judge Ann Donnelly handed down the term in the Brooklyn federal court nearly a year after the 55-year-old Kelly was convicted by a New York jury. "The verdict…
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A Mexican reporter was shot dead on Wednesday in the violence-plagued northeastern state of Tamaulipas -- the 12th journalist killed so far in a particularly bloody year for the country's press.
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved projects to shore up power supply across the country.
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Before we get started, note that K-Fashion is simply Korean fashion. Three words that should come to mind when we hear K-fashion are elegant, graceful, and classy. It basically embodies the fusion of traditional style and modern fashion to create ingenious apparel. The sense of style is rather conservative, what I call a "delicate aesthetic,"…
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