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Ozekhome Faults Southern Governors’ Call For Constitutional Conference

By Tony Okafor – Awka, Punch Newspaper Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, SAN has faulted the call by 17 Southern Governors for a constitutional conference. The Governors had said such a conference would straighten knotty problems confronting the country. But Ozekhome who spoke in Anambra State on Thursday, as a keynote speaker at the 25th

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South’s Governors Call For Dialogue And Restructuring Divide Stakeholders

By Sanni Onogu, Tony Akowe, Frank Ikpefan, Abuja; Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin, Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt, and Okungbowa Aiwerie, Asaba – The Nation Newspaper A huge division broke in the country yesterday over the call for restructuring and an urgent national dialogue by South’s Governors to fashion a way out of the worsening insecurity. Tuesday’s bi-partisan

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FG Must Prove Kanu Wrong On Petition To US – PANDEF

By Chukwudi Akasike, The Punch Newspapers The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has called on the Federal Government to demonstrate sincerity in tackling insecurity in the country. PANDEF said this was necessary in order to prove the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu wrong in his allegations that there was bias

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#Report: Capital Budget Implementation Worst In Cross River, Ogun, Imo

By Oge Udegbunam and Mary Izuaka, Premium Times Twelve out of Nigeria’s 36 States paid the least attention to the implementation of real and people-impacting projects, classified as capital expenditure in the 2019 Budget, recording a less than 30 percent performance, a new report says. A report by the civic advocacy group, BudgIT, said among

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Billions In Company Payments Failing To Improve Lives In Niger Delta, New Study Shows

By CrossRiverWatch Admin The hundreds of millions of dollars  (US) multinational energy companies pay every year towards development in the Niger Delta are having negligible impact on people’s lives or environmental protection, a new study co-authored by civil society organizations Policy Alert (Nigeria), Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK, has found. The report, “What’s in It for Us?” is

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What If? – WITTY THOUGHT WITH KEN HENSHAW

This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. What if Southern Nigeria decides to cut supply of petrol, diesel and kerosene to the North? Who hurts more? We need to think and act more

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PDP, APC Tied To Apron Strings Of Financiers In Cross River

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has been at the helm of affairs in Cross River State since 1999. But, it has been embroiled crisis in recent times and the conflict may affect its chances in future elections. The major opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), is equally destabilised by internal squabbling. Nsa Gill of

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What Does It Take To Get President Buhari To Leave Office? – WITTY THOUGHT WITH KEN HENSHAW

This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. On all counts and indicators, especially those ones he rode into power promising, this President has failed. On the economy, the man has supervised 2 recessions

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