Nigeria’s 10th House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review held its inaugural citizens’ engagement session at Abuja’s Transcorp Hilton Hotel. Led by House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas and Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu (also Chairman of the Committee), the event set the tone for an extensive review of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, with plans for some amendments to…
Kola Oluwawole – Ekiti State (October 2018) In October 2018, Kola Oluwawole, then Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, was abruptly impeached. The reasons for his removal were not clearly articulated in public discourse, a situation that underscores a recurrent theme in Nigerian state politics—lack of transparency. Seventeen members out of the 26-member assembly…
A former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, has criticized the recent imposition of a state of emergency on Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu. The president had last Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich state. He also suspended Governor Siminilayi Fubara, his deputy, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly…
