Tag: Legislature
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Gov. Mbah assures assembly members elect of healthy working relationship
Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State has promised a healthy working partnership between the Executive and the Legislature for quality service delivery in the state. Mbah said this on Thursday while declaring open a 3-Day pre-inauguration workshop for the 24 members-elect organised by the management of the house in Enugu. He told the members-elect that…
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Wike’s ‘love’ for free polls, legislature, judiciary – Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon “Wonders shall never end!” is an apt description of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s newfound love for free, fair, and credible elections, and an independent legislature, and judiciary. Yet, Wike is the antithesis of what he’s preaching, after about eight years of doing the unimaginable to undermine the electoral process, freedom of…
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When it comes to looting, executive, legislature are partners in progress (2)- Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu This is the concluding part of what we started last week, under the same topic – When it comes to looting; the Executive and Legislature are partners in progress. Last week, we established the fact of this ugly reality – albeit the reality of how Nigerians are continually defrauded on daily basis,…
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When it comes to looting, the executive and legislature are partners in progress – Godwin Etakibuebu
Godwin Etakibuebu There is no doubt over the years that there is massive looting of the Nigerian Common Wealth. And the looters of the common wealth are Nigerians, though a fraction of less than 5 percent of the adult population. Our budgets increase annually without proportionate commensuration with quality of works executed. The looters are…
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Consolidating executive/legislature relationship for good governance – Senator Babajide Omoworare
It is trite that the relationship of the Executive and the Legislative arms of government during the current National Assembly, the ninth in this nation’s history, is refreshingly cordial. The contrast could not be starker between previous polarities and the consensus ad idem achieved during this administration. This paper starts with a theoretical overview of…
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FG releases details of judiciary financial autonomy order
The federal government has released details of Executive Order 10, which grants financial autonomy to the legislature and judiciary at the State level. The details were released by Umar Gwandu, Special Assistant on Media to Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami four days after it was signed into law by President Mohammadu Buhari. Read details…
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Governors meet over independence of state’s legislature, judiciary
The thirty- Six State Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF will meet tomorrow to brainstorm on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order granting financial autonomy to the legislature and judiciary at the state level. The governors who will be holding their 9th teleconference meeting since the lockdown that resulted from the outbreak…
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Representative democracy and Nigerians lost battle – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu It is for the purpose of checks and balances that developers of democracy, from origin, enshrined the three concepts or layers into government. Without the three layers; Executive, Legislature and Judiciary, conceptualised by the founding fathers, practice of democracy would have been so frustrating. If the stages of designing policy into prosecution…
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Buhari speaks on state, legislature, judiciary autonomy
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will ensure a strengthened and stabilised democratic system in Nigeria. He made this known when the Presidential Implementation Committee on Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and Judiciary submitted a report on Tuesday. According to a statement by Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari…
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Executive arm more corrupt than legislature, judiciary combined – ICPC Chairman
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, says the executive arm of government in Nigeria is more corrupt than the judicial and legislative arm. According to Rasheedat Okoduwa, ICPC spokesperson, Owasanoye made the comment while delivering a lecture at the induction for new legislators in Abuja titled “The…