Being text of a speech delivered by Mr. Peter Pacqueens Aisagbonhi, Anti Corruption League, United Kingdom, at the 3rd Ralph Okpara Memorial Lecture of the National Association of Seadogs at the Nigeria Institute of...
A Foreign perspective on Anambra StateBy Andrew Obinna OnyearuOn 24 October 2007, the Supreme Court, interpreting, amongst other provisions, section 34(2) of the Electoral Act 2006, nullified the outcome of the April...
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...
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,...
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...