Governments at all levels should make issues of gender equality and eradication of all forms of discriminatory practices militating against women advancement in the country a priority, Senator representing Enugu East in the Senate, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has said. Senator Nnamani who made the call In a goodwill message to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) in Abuja , praised the indomitable spirit of women who have excelled in various fields of human endeavour despite the odds against them. Senator Nnamani identified some impediments against women advancement to include cultural barriers, barbaric dehumanizing practices, discrimination against their right to…
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The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sen. Tolu Odebiyi has celebrated With women in Ogun West Senatorial District and globally as they mark the International Women’s Day (IWD). The Media Aide to the senator Olubunmi Omo’ogun in a press statement said the International Women’s Day is a day set aside to celebrate women globally. The day which was first celebrated by the United Nations (UN) in 1975, also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. While describing the women as the backbone of the family and the bedrock of the nation, the Ogun…
By: Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse The Executive Director HASNUR Iniative for Women and Youth Development in Jigawa state, Hajiya Hadiza Abdulwahab has called on the Jigawa state government and law enforcement agencies to enforce the Child Right Law enacted recently in the state Speaking as part of this year’s Women International Day celebration in Dutse, Jigawa, the executive director described inadequate women involvement in government policies and programmes, inadequate focus on women education and poor women participation in politics as major challenges of women in the state. Th executive director said the area of focus of her organization are on Women,…
The senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District in the senate of the National Assembly, Sen. BiobarakumaDegi-Eremienyo, has given out over 140 motorbikes and 100 sewing machines to constituents as empowerment. A statement from his media office said the constituents were drawn from towns and villages he represents. The gesture the statement indicated is a continuation of the series of empowerment programmes that he has initiated and lined up for their upliftment as their representative. According to the statement, the distribution of the items took place in Elebele, Ogbia LGA, Bayelsa State before in the presence of community and party leaders.…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday set aside the ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja, barring the Senate President from tampering with the newly amended Electoral Act 2022.the President the ruling had also barred President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation in the same veinLawan insisted that the ex-parte order cannot stop the National Assembly from amending section 84(12) of the Electoral Act.The court in a ruling delivered on Monday by Inyang Ekwo, on an ex-parte application by the People’s Democratic Party, barred the President Muhammadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation…
From Abel Abogonye, Lafia The Management Staff and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) of the State House of Assembly have passed a vote of confidence on the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi over his leadership qualities and improved workers welfare. The Acting Clerk of the House, Mr Ibrahim Musa and PASAN Chairman, Comrade Dauda Nuhu gave the commendation when they paid a thank you visit to the Speaker in his office in Lafia. The Acting Clerk and the parliamentary union leader said that they were at the Speaker’s office to appreciate him over improvement in their welfare and…
Law, incidentally, does not enjoy a universal acceptance in terms of definitions. There are points of convergence as there are points which presuppose definitional parallelism. The absence of this universality in definition, when juxtaposed with other disciplines known to mankind, clearly underscores the uniqueness of law as a discipline. As such, any definition of law proffered will definitely lay bare the dictates of which school of thought which the proponent of such definition adheres to. This treatise, purposively, is not an attempt to offer lectures on Jurisprudence; as such, the urge to further elucidate on the theories of law will…
***Urges Party Faithfuls to remain steadfast A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and former member of the House of Representatives from Kogi State, Hon Karimi Sunday Steve on Monday declared that there was no crisis in the Party as being speculated in some quarters. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, he said on the contrary the Party is waxing stronger on daily basis He pointed out that such perceived crisis was the imagination of the Party’s detractors According to him, “My attention has been drawn to statements by members of the major opposition Party (PDP) rejoicing…
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be playing the ostrich over imminent implosion of the party as it now lives by speculationsThe crisis rocking the ruling party took a twist on Monday as the Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello, confidently drove into the secretariat of the party parked his car on the spot for the CECPC National Chairman. He presided over the party’s meeting at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja. Photographs of Governor Bello presiding over the meeting of the APC ignited more speculations about the leadership of the party. The party however…