The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has launched a scathing attack on the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), accusing the panel of conducting what it described as a politically motivated exercise aimed at shielding powerful public officials while undermining the judiciary. In a statement issued on Thursday by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko, the rights group alleged that the committee had abandoned the principles of impartial legislative oversight and was instead staging what it called a “political cover-up” by reaching conclusions on issues already pending before a…
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The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has paid glowing tribute to the late Sardaunan Sokoto and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, describing his death as the close of a remarkable chapter in Nigeria’s public service history. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Forum said the elder statesman, who died in Abuja at the age of 87, left behind an enduring legacy of integrity, patriotism and exceptional service to Nigeria. The statement, signed by the Forum’s Chairman, Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua, said the late Sardaunan Sokoto distinguished himself as one of Nigeria’s most accomplished…
The crisis rocking the Niger State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) deepened on Thursday as five aggrieved senatorial aspirants from the Niger South Senatorial District rejected Governor Umaru Mohammed Bago’s reconciliation efforts and headed to court to challenge the outcome of the party’s primary election. The aspirants—Engr. Adamu Alfa Abu, Senator Peter Ndalikali Jiya, Senator Bima Muhammad Enagi, former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Muhammad Nami, and Mohammed Ndarani Mohammed (SAN)—said they had resolved to seek judicial intervention over what they described as irregularities that marred the party’s primary process. Their decision comes despite a…
By Douglas Baye-Osagie _dbayeosagie@yahoo.com_ Donald Trump, the self-styled mighty overseer of world politics, has laid his hands on Gianni Infantino’s forehead. All we hear now is more money from commercials, a redefining of the rules of the game, the expansion of the World Cup, and more money to football federations for “the development of the game.” Yet when corrupt football administrators, like some we have in Africa, receive these huge flows of millions of dollars, they cannot even clear the grass to get a stadium off the ground. We have seen it before. That money will be diverted into non-football…
The Senate has commenced one of its most comprehensive oversight exercises on Nigeria’s petroleum industry, summoning the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), major regulatory agencies and dozens of international and indigenous oil companies over issues arising from the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Oil and Gas Industry Audit Reports for 2021, 2022 and 2023. The investigation, to be conducted by the Senate Committee on Public Accounts chaired by Senator Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, is aimed at probing revenue leakages, remittances, royalties, taxes and compliance with statutory financial obligations in the nation’s oil and…
A retired Superintendent Route Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Evangelist Ameh Itodo Ameh, has mounted an audacious challenge to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s expected re-election bid, calling on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to deny the incumbent a second-term ticket and instead present him as the party’s presidential candidate in 2027. In a political declaration titled **”Change Tinubu to AMITO Come 2027,”** Ameh argued that the ruling party should draw lessons from the United States, where then-President Joe Biden ended his 2024 re-election campaign after growing concerns within the Democratic Party about his electoral viability following a…
The Obidient Movement has debunked reports alleging that its National Coordinator, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, was removed from office by former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, describing the claim as a calculated attempt to mislead Nigerians and sow confusion within the movement. In a statement signed by Onyeka Dike on behalf of the Media and Communications Directorate of the group on Thursday the movement insisted that Obi neither relieved Tanko of his position nor authorised anyone to announce such a decision, urging the public to disregard what it called a fabricated publication. The denial followed the circulation of a statement…
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has raised the alarm over what it describes as Nigeria’s rapid descent into mob rule, warning that the country’s constitutional order is being steadily replaced by jungle justice as lynch mobs increasingly assume the roles of police, prosecutors and judges. In a strongly worded statement on Wednesday by its national Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights group said the growing wave of public lynchings, torture, sexual violence and extrajudicial killings across the country signals a dangerous erosion of the rule of law, insisting that swift prosecution of perpetrators has become imperative to…
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Wednesday sounded the alarm over the latest bloodbath in Southern Kaduna, declaring that the massacre in Kauru Local Government Area is part of a calculated campaign by terrorists to shatter the fragile peace returning to the state and plunge it back into years of sectarian violence. The group said the attack on Naridon Village—where scores of residents were reportedly butchered, homes razed and several people abducted—goes beyond an isolated act of terror, warning that it bears the hallmarks of a deliberate attempt to undermine reconciliation, destroy public confidence and provoke fresh…
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Esther Walson-Jack, on Wednesday admitted that her office failed to carry out adequate due diligence before approving the staffing structure and recruitment waiver for the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), whose establishment documents have since been declared fake. Appearing before the House of Representatives committee investigating the alleged fraudulent agency and the N1.3 billion earmarked for it in the 2026 Appropriation Act, Walson-Jack acknowledged that the Office of the Head of Service should have subjected the documents presented by the promoters of the council to stricter verification. She explained…