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  • Debt Service and Other Challenges of of Budget 2025 as Passed

    Debt Service and Other Challenges of of Budget 2025 as Passed0

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    • February 15, 2025

    An increase in debt servicing is one of the challenges Nigeria’s fiscal performance is set to face in 2025, as the National Assembly, comprising the Senate and House of Representatives, passed the 2025 appropriation bill of N54.9 trillion, out of which 14.3 trillion was allocated to service the country’s debt in the fiscal year. The

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  • Do Nigerian Prison Inmates Get Released Based on Good Conduct?

    Do Nigerian Prison Inmates Get Released Based on Good Conduct?0

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    • February 13, 2025

    Claim: Nigerian prison inmates do not get released based on good conduct. Verdict: False Background On Friday, January 24, 2025, a Facebook user, Patience Adah, posted a short clip of a man being paraded at the Anambra Women Affairs office, where he appeared remorseful of his crime. See the video here. The clip followed an

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  • INEC Challenges Security Agencies on Tackling Vote Buying During Election

    INEC Challenges Security Agencies on Tackling Vote Buying During Election0

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    • February 11, 2025

    Ahead of the Anambra state off-cycle election in November 2025, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has engaged the security agencies on strategies to tackle the menace of vote buying at the primary and main elections. Professor Yakubu made this appeal while meeting with the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on

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  • Rivers: Confusion Over Supreme Court Dismissal of Fubara’s Suit

    Rivers: Confusion Over Supreme Court Dismissal of Fubara’s Suit0

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    • February 10, 2025

    The political tension in Rivers State was accentuated on Monday following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a suit filed by the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, against the 27 members of the State House of Assembly who had defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the passage of the

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  • INEC-NBA Collaboration Puts 774 Electoral Offenders on Trial

    INEC-NBA Collaboration Puts 774 Electoral Offenders on Trial0

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    • February 7, 2025

    Collaboration between the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Nigerian Bar Association has resulted in the prosecution of cases involving 774 alleged offenders from the 2023 General Election. To further build on this, Professor Yakubu Mahmood has advocated for the establishment of an Electoral Offences Tribunal to streamline the prosecution of electoral offenders, highlighting the

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  • Reps Constitution Committee Receives Requests to Create 31 New States

    Reps Constitution Committee Receives Requests to Create 31 New States0

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    • February 6, 2025

    Despite the insolvency of several states of the federation, the House of Representatives Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution has received proposals for the creation of 31 additional states in the country. Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Benjamin Kalu, who presided over plenary on Thursday, read a letter from the committee

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