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OPINION: Is Rep Gagdi eyeing Speakership of the 10th House? 

Ahead of politicking for Speakership in the 10th House of Representatives, Plateau lawmaker is speculated to be nursing interest in the top job       READ ALSO: Reps Bagos, Mwadkwon, Gagdi, Deputy Speaker atop Plateau National Assembly Scorecard   With winners declared for about 325 out of 360 House of Representatives seats already declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), attention is beginning to shift towards the race for the leadership of the 10th...

OPINION: Fr Alia and tempering expectations

There’s need to look a little beyond the populism driving the candidacy of the APC gubernatorial candidate in Benue State, writes Sesugh Akume   If the trend as seen from last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly continues, in another week Benue will be voting Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia by a landslide as governor. Except the miraculous happens, the election next Saturday seems a mere formality. The people love Fr Alia, as he has been in their...

POPULA: “Time for African parliaments to be more transparent”

      The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development has restated the need for a more transparent, accountable and people-oriented parliaments across the African continent. Director of Strategy at the Centre, Itia Otabor,  made the call on Thursday, in Abuja, at a Capacity Building Workshop for Media and Civil Society Partners on ‘Open Parliament Index (OPI),’ a project being implemented by the Nigerian Network of Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations. OrderPaper Advocacy Initiative, Nigeria’s preeminent...

Parliament Special: How justified is severance package for lawmakers?

With the tenure expiration of the Ninth National Assembly just about four months away, we examine the appropriation of N30.173 billion as severance package for the lawmakers and sundry provisions         Severance packages refer to pay and benefits given to employees who leave employment at an organisation unwilfully.  Typically, such packages are instituted to help protect the newly unemployed and are offered to employees who are laid off or retire. However, they...

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