Strong indications emerged in Abuja on Wednesday that the embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Etteh, might step aside on October 30. The Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and...
Forty years ago, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka travelled to Nigeria's secessionist Biafra region to try and calm growing tensions. The visit saw him thrown in jail, forced to spend 22 months in solitary confinement....
Honours came in bountiful proportions for Nigerian banks at the weekend in Washington D.C, United States. The events also provided another opportunity for stakeholders in the financial sector to shower encomiums on the...
A former judge of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, Prince Bola Ajibola, has said that the letter written to the counsel for a former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori, by the Attorney-General of...
Contrary to expectations, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, will not step aside for the emergence of an Interim Speaker, who is expected to preside over the debate on the Idoko...
There is growing anxiety in the Senate over allegations of impropriety and fraud leveled against the leadership of Senator David Mark by Senator George Akume. Two newspaper reports bordering on the allegations of award...
Kebbi State Governor, Usman Dakingari yesterday became the second governor elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to have his election nullified by the Election Petition Tribunal since the April...
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Maurice Iwu has opened up on the flaws that afflicted the April general elections, insisting that they were systemic. Iwu, in the official report of...
When he arrived at the National Assembly complex in Abuja yesterday, Aminu Ibrahim Safana, a member of the House of Representatives was full of life. But it turned out to be his last appearance in the legislature. As...
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Tuesday in the United States (U.S.) cautioned those playing the ethnic card in favour of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Olubunmi Etteh. Soyinka rejected the...
Expectations of drama were high. And the House of Representatives session lived up to the billing yesterday. For about one-and-a-half hours, the House of Representatives Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, was held...
Ailing infrastructure in the aviation sector may soon be rehabilitated as the World Bank has approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of N5.87 billion ($46.65 million) for Nigeria under the West...