Austin Oboh

3 weeks ago | independent.ng | Austin Oboh

The House of Representatives has begun yet another constitutional amendment journey in the manner of past legislators in the attempt to redress knotty or problematic constitutional provisions. But the exercise is usually fraught with the danger of replacing one challenge with another, given the fact that most constitutional issues, some critics claim, derive from the failure of office holders rather than the law.

1 month ago | independent.ng | Austin Oboh

President Bola Tinubu shocked many Nigerians when on Tuesday he declared a state of emergency in Rivers, citing the prolonged political crisis in the state. Under the proclamation, the President also suspended Governor Sim Fubara, his deputy, and members of the State House of Assembly for six months.

1 month ago | independent.ng | Austin Oboh

Since his assumption of office as president in May 2023, Bola Tinubu had not had the opportunity to meet party leaders in an important forum such as the National Executive Committee. And when he did finally meet them on Wednesday, they left him with no doubts that there was no cause for alarm. This is paradoxically different from the reception some critics thought he would get, especially from Northern leaders.

2 months ago | independent.ng | Austin Oboh

All is not well in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The leading opposition party is burdened by internal disputes arising from leadership and administrative conflicts. At the core of the disputes, however, are long-standing grudges emanating from the 2023 presidential primaries which intensely factionalised the once ‘biggest party in Africa’ and turned it into a political group where ‘the centre can no longer hold’.

Nov 24, 2024 | independent.ng | Austin Oboh

The problematic state of insecurity in the North became the subject of debate in the Senate on Monday when the upper legislative chamber expressed concerns over the infiltration of the Lakurawa terrorists from Mali and Burkina Faso into Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, other states in the North West and Niger State in the North Central. It noted that the phenomenon has attained international dimension and called on the military to develop early warning mechanisms to be able to cut short emerging threats.