YEMEN FIGHTING PUSHES NEARLY 3,000 TO DJIBOUTI IN LESS THAN A WEEK- UN. (PHOTO).

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Yemen fighting pushes nearly 3,000 to Djibouti in less than a week: UN    Nearly 3,000 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in less than a week as escalating violence drives growing displacement within the country and across its borders, the UN refugee agency said Friday. “Refugees continue to arrive by boat through Obock, Khor Angar, Moulhoule and Godoria after difficult journeys in small vessels,” UNHCR representative in Djibouti Sandrine Desamours told reporters in Geneva, Anadolu Agency reported. More than half of those crossing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait are women and children, while some families have been displaced for a second time after previously fleeing Yemen during the 2015 crisis and later returning. UNHCR is preparing for at least 10,000 new arrivals but warned that capacity is rapidly diminishing. Markazi refugee village, designed for 5,000 people, was already hosting more than 2,700 Yemenis and 1,500 Eritreans. More than 100,000 people have also been displaced ins...

SENATE LEADER OPEYEMI BAMIDELE PROPOSES SINGLE SIX-YEAR TENURE FOR PRESIDENTS AND GOVERNORS. (PHOTO).


 Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, has announced plans to sponsor a bill that would establish a single six-year tenure for the President and state governors after the 2027 general elections.


Bamidele said the proposed legislation would be among the first bills he intends to introduce when the 11th Senate is inaugurated, stressing that it would allow elected leaders to focus fully on governance instead of re-election politics.


Speaking during an interview with reporters in his office on Tuesday, the Senate Leader criticised the existing two-term arrangement, noting that it often forces officeholders to spend a significant part of their first term preparing for re-election.


“One of the first set of bills that I look forward to moving, by God’s grace, when we come back for the 11th Senate, God willing, is for a bill that will only make it possible for anyone who wants to be president of this country, or governor in any part of this country, to spend only one term of six years,” he said.


Bamidele argued that a single six-year tenure would remove the distractions associated with seeking a second term.


“So that you don’t even have to worry about wasting almost one and a half years of your first term thinking and struggling and looking forward to how you’ll be re-elected,” he explained. 


“If you know you are there for six years, only one tenure, you put in your best from day one. You know this is the only chance that you have.”


The Senate Leader acknowledged that the proposal may face opposition but maintained that lawmakers have a duty to push for reforms they believe will improve governance.


“That’s my opinion. It doesn’t mean everybody will agree with me. But it also does not mean that I am prevented from doing that because that has not been the law,” he said.


He further emphasised that laws must evolve with changing realities. “The essence of law, the essence of parliament, is that laws are like human beings; they grow,” Bamidele added.


If passed by the National Assembly, the proposal would require constitutional amendments before it can take effect.

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