Delegates in one voice agreed that Nigeria cannot make any significant progress unless corruption was tackled with a sledge-hammer.
Nigeria National Conference Review – Week 2
The second week of plenaries at the ongoing National Conference in Nigeria showed a progressing excitement. This week, the delegates agreed on how to vote on issues but lost their powers to elect committee leaders. The alliance between minority groups – women, youth, people living with disability – in the conference is growing. Catch expert…
EXCLUSIVE: Presidency rallies elder statesmen, others on critical national issues
Presidency is keen on ensuring a national consensus. With the National Conference entering a crucial stage of its work, the presidency has moved in to rally elder statesmen to support some of the major reforms expected to come out of the programme.
Female delegate blames women for corruption in Nigeria
“Let us tell ourselves the truth, women are the source of the whole problem we have in this country.” A delegate at the National Conference, Jummai Bello, shocked her colleagues when she lambasted the womenfolk for fuelling corruption in Nigeria. Ms. Bello, a delegate of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, while contributing to the debate…
National Conference averts hot religious debate
Christian delegate reeled out figures of faithful killed in Plateau State. Tempers almost rose at the ongoing National Conference on Tuesday when representatives of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, reeled out figures of Christians killed in the northern part of the country. The Christian leaders also complained that Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution does not mention…
Nigerian women under-represented at National Conference, but fighting to be heard
PREMIUM TIMES investigations have shown that women are under represented at the ongoing national conference in Abuja.
Confab delegates and the unity of Nigeria, By Saleh Ashaka
It was not for nothing that President Goodluck Jonathan at the inauguration of the national conference this month, urged delegates at the conference not to venture into areas that would put the unity of the country in jeopardy, but focus on areas that would foster peaceful coexistence and mutual trust among its people.
The National Conference as a Terrain of Struggle, By Jaye Gaskia @jayegsakia
For better or for worse, whether we are conscious of it or not, the recently inaugurated National Conference is and has become a very hotly contested political process and institution, a theater of increasingly intense overt Class [Political] Struggle.