Constitution Review: NULGE Seeks Autonomy For LGAs
By Isaiah Benjamine
The National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has urged the National Assembly to ensure autonomy for local governments in the ongoing constitution review.The National President of the Union, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel ADK who said this, yesterday,said that a memo to that effect has already been submitted to the Assembly.The union leader pointed out that the demand was based on the belief that meaningful development could only be achieved from the grass roots. Full story...
Source:http://leadership.ng/nga
Posted by Amaka, 24 October 2012
Nigeria: A People's Constitution
THE House of Representatives is giving Nigerians an opportunity to participate in amending the 1999 Constitution. It is a novel idea billed to hold from 10am on Monday November 5 in all 360 federal constituencies of the country.It may be a response to calls for a sovereign national conference or an attempt to correct the lie that prefaces the 1999 Constitution which states that Nigerians gave themselves the document.The House calls the move a fulfillment of its pledge, in 2011, to make governance more inclusive. It is an opportunity for Nigerians - of various levels of understanding - to participate in the making of the Constitution. The only amendment, in 2010, was on electoral reforms. Nigerians want more. Full story...
Source:http://allafrica.com
Posted by Amaka, 22 October 2012
Nigeria: Senate Confirms Receipt 2013-15 Medium Term Expenditure Framework
By Dele Ogbodo
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday in Abuja forwarded the 2013-2015 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper to the Senate, with a pledge that the 2013 budget will continue with his administration's fiscal consolidation programme.The Federal Government, in the paper, disclosed that following its initiatives and in line with the trend since 2011, the share of recurrent spending in aggregate expenditure is set to further reduce from 71.47 per cent in 2012 to 68.7 per cent in 2013 while capital expenditure as a share of aggregate spending is set to increase from 28.53 per cent in 2012 to 31.3 per cent in 2013.
Source:http://allafrica.com
Posted by Amaka, 20 September 2012
Jonathan, Constitution and Civil Society Organisations
President Goodluck Jonathan got civil rights labour activists and professional organisations together in the State House recently to sound them out on the way to achieve a constitution that would actually be regarded as a people-oriented document. Leon Usigbe reports the event, which also attracted the leadership of the National Assembly.PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan was, for several hours last week, locked in deliberations with civil society organisations (CSOs) and professional groups in a presidential retreat at the Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, brainstorming on how to actualise a people-oriented constitution for the country in the ongoing constitution amendment process.
Source:http://tribune.com.ng
Posted by Amaka, 12 September 2012
New Constitution Ready by June 2013 –Ihedioha
By John Alechenu and Olalekan Adetayo
Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, has assured Nigerians that the new Constitution that will emerge from the ongoing amendment process would be ready latest by the second quarter of 2013.Ihedioha said this in his paper, ‘Perspectives of Constitutional Amendment,’ which he presented at a presidential retreat for civil society organisations and professional associations at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.
Source: http://www.punchng.com
Posted by Amaka, 7 September 2012
Posted by Amaka, 7 September 2012
Nigeria: States' Race for Distinctiveness
BY OLAWALE OLALEYE, ADEMOLA ADEYEMO AND AYODELE OPIAH
Increasing adoption of autonomous flags, coats of arms and anthems by some states for the purpose of creating a distinct identity for themselves has begun to generate mixed feelings, especially as some consider it illegal. In this report, Olawale Olaleye, Ademola Adeyemo and Ayodele Opiah weigh the different reactions that have trailed the development.Full story...
Source:http://allafrica.com
Posted by Amaka, 3 September 2012
States’ Anthem, Flag: Signs Of A Nation Under Frustration – ACF
BY
The spate of agitations by some groups for political autonomy as symbolised by the adoption of anthems, flags are manifestations of frustration with the affairs of the nation, the Arewa consultative forum (ACF) has said. Recently, Ogoni, Bayelsa State and the Yoruba National Assembly had composed their own anthems and designed their own flags in furtherance of their self-determination demands.
Full story...
Full story...
Source: http://leadership.ng
Posted by Amaka, 3 September 2012
Immunity Clause Is Not Our Problem, Says Ahamba
FORMER National Chairman of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Mike Ahamba spoke with BERTRAM NWANNEKANMA on the on-going efforts by the National Assembly to amend the constitution.
Do you support the calls for the removal of immunity clause?
The removal of immunity clause is an area, where I know I hold a minority opinion. I am one of those who say it should not be removed, because that is not our problem. Our problem is institutional collapse-failure of institutions to carry out their respective responsibilities. When you talk about checks and balances, it is anticipated that some of things will happen. So if people in the executive are ‘looting’ the state treasury, it is for the House of Assembly to declare that a gross misconduct. If a sitting governor is found to have taken two million dollars out of Nigeria, he has disobeyed the law of the country. You don’t have to wait for Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) because the commission cannot do anything because of immunity. The responsibility lies with the House of Assembly to now commence an impeachment proceeding. Full story...
Source: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com
Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012
Nigeria Needs a People’s Constitution
Nigeria has to develop a people’s constitution to rise above its present challenges, the Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, New York, Prof. Ali Mazrui, has said. Speaking at the eighth Aelex Annual Lecture in Lagos on the theme: “This house must not fall: Constitutional reform and the people’s will”, the scholar said Nigeria must allow the people to participate in the development of a constitution. Full story...
Source: www.thenationonlineng.net
Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012
Constitution Review: Delta Canvasses True, Fiscal Federalism
Being presentation of Delta Government position by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan at the retreat of the Senate Committee on the review of 1999 Constitution on Friday, July 20. Full story...
Source: www.thenationonlineng.net
Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012
Nigeria Does Not Have What is Called a Constitution – Idaye Opi
Source: www.channelstv.com
Posted by Ufuoma, 27 July 2012