Sentences with phrase «federal character»

«We all know this is not a good time for such rally with unmitigated attendance of killings, mass destruction of properties as well as disregard to the principle of federal character through lopsided federal appointment among other reasons.

The Governor who also call for the review of the existing federal character principles call on all stakeholders to embrace good governance in their domains in a bid to have a better society.

«They are representatives from Federal Character Commission, Police Service Commission, Police Force Headquarters and other agencies of government

Responding to a request by the Governor for the inclusion of more Plateau State indigenes in Federal appointments, President Buhari assured that, «the request will be looked into so as to reflect federal character in line with the Federal Government's determination to address issues of marginalization in the spread of appointments and other privileges.»

Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator Tijjani Yahaya Kaura, has observed that it is time for Nigerian leaders, especially the lawmakers to...

«Though the new administration is at liberty to carry out postings and appointments in line with the policy objectives of the new IGP, it behooves on the Police hierarchy to consider federal character principles and competency while performing these functions because the force is Nigerian Police.

At the highest level, we must reorganise or reconfigure to reflect federal character because of our constitution.

Tell me why we must have three senators from every state of the federation, isn't that just based on some defined federal character principle and not population size or merit?

Only two other issues have dominated Nigeria's political economy from before independence the way fighting corruption has: federal character a.k.a. «equitable» allocation of power and resources and political succession.

Well, in a country that preaches Federal character based on regional, state, senatorial district and constituency representation: it is only fair to equally distribute the polling units.

What has the number of polling unit in a particular area got to do with the retarding federal character that promote incompetency?

The lawsuit is based on the preemption doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court under the constitution's supremacy clause, which states that certain matters are of such federal character, as opposed to local or state, that only the federal government can act on them.

According to these distinguished Nigerians, there are lopsidedness in employment and postings in the Nigerian Army in favour of the Igbos, which is clearly in the breach of the principle of Federal Character.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator Tijjani Yahaya Kaura, has observed that it is time for Nigerian leaders, especially the lawmakers to reboot the country.

And having done so without the necessity of altering to any degree their social economic patterns, they saw no reason for changing their traditional notions of the federal character of the national government, the benefits of Negro slavery, or the superiority of a rural - agricultural way of life.

Federal character has become a total charade.

Agbakoba in a statemet on Monday alleged that the appointment made by the Federal Government of Nigeria, contravenes the provisions of S. 14 of the Constitution and also the Federal Character Commission, Act and the provisions of Sections 42 of the Constitution of Nigeria that prohibits discrimination of any of Nigeria's ethnic groups such as, in this case, the South East.

The statement issued and signed by the Forum's Chairman and the Secretary, Solomon Asemota, SAN, and Pastor Bosun Emmanuel, respectively, noted that «such a conspiracy could exist is confirmed by the flagrant violation of the Federal Character Principle in the Constitution by the Buhari Administration.»

Aside that, those appointments, 13 in number, discarded the federal character principle.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Shettima Bukar - Abba as the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC).

Members of the House of Representatives have decried an alleged violation of the federal character principle in recruitment by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has faulted the non-representation of the state in the Federal Character Commission, FCC.

This appointment truly characterized the federal character

He said that the commission was guided by its enabling law, recruitment guidelines and the federal character as enshrined in the constitution.

And his appointments were generally meritorious yet representative of the federal character.

Ani said that the exercise was based on merit, federal character and geographical spread, adding that all successful candidates went through the required processes.

He stated that, «With the appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the NIA Director General, all heads of security agencies are now northerners and the question is, is this what those who enshrined federal character in our constitution envisaged?