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Leadership News. Leadership is a Nigerian daily national newspaper. It was established in October 2004 by Sam Nda-Isaiah, a pharmacist cum businessman and politician, and is published by Leadership Newspaper Group based in Abuja, Nigeria. [1] On its website, the paper asserts: "We shall stand up for good governance.
The current constitution of Nigeria has the president of Nigeria as the head of state and government. From 1960 to 1963, the head of state under the Constitution of 1960 was the queen of Nigeria, Elizabeth II who was also the queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The monarch was represented in Nigeria by a governor-general.
Obasanjo served two terms in office. On 29 May 2007, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was sworn in as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the 13th head of state completing the first successful transition of power, from one democratically elected president to another in Nigeria. [24] [25] [26] Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010 at the presidential ...
State House website. Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is the 16th and current president of Nigeria. [1] He was the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic . Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to the United ...
Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo GCFR [1] [2] ( / oʊˈbɑːsəndʒoʊ / ⓘ oh-BAH-sən-joh; Yoruba: Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ [olúʃɛ́ɡũ ɔbásanɟɔ] ⓘ; born c. 5 March 1937) is a Nigerian general and statesman who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to ...
v. t. e. The 10th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature inaugurated on 13 June 2023 and will run its course until 13 June 2027. [1] [2]
The federal government of Nigeria is composed of three distinct branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial, whose powers are vested and bestowed upon them by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the National Assembly, the president, and lastly the federal courts, which includes the Supreme Court which is regarded as the highest court in Nigeria.
The House of Representatives (also called Green Chamber) is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. [1] The Senate is the upper chamber. [2] The Green Chamber has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or first-past-the-post) system, most recently in 2023.