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...
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Tribunal Nullifies Kebbi Gov’s Election
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...
NAFDAC And The Adedibu Menace
By Reuben Abati We have been having a lot of problems with Adedibu. When we were working on unfortified spaghetti and macaroni that were smuggled into the country and that were unhealthy for consumption of our people,...
Iwu opens up on April poll
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...
Etteh Saga: Rep dies
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...
Soyinka insists on truth, justice
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...
Reps hold Etteh hostage
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...
Nigeria gets N5.87b World Bank aviation safety loan
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...
Nigerian varsities join ICT certification revolution
Plagued by a recurrent unemployment nightmare, graduates of Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions now see Information and Communications Technology, (ICT) as an escape route from the bizarre situation....
Yar’Adua and enforcement of the rule of law in Nigeria
By Dr. Olu Onagoruwa Yar'Adua's emergence into the Federal Political System was controversial. There is a general belief that his election was rigged by General Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Iwu and INEC, who...
Akunyili Showcases Nigeria In France
Nigeria was at the weekend the toast of international community as over 900 Women Entrepreneurs and professionals gathered at an International Conference in Deauville, France to share from Nigeria 's strategies and...
Firefighters Put Out Ughelli Pipeline Fire
The pipeline fire, which began in the early hours of Friday, at a vandalised condensate pipeline in the outskirts of Otor-Udu, Ughelli South Local Council, Delta State, was finally put out yesterday by a contingent of...