The Majority Leader of the House, Mr. Frank Okiye, had under matters of urgent public importance, drew the attention of the House to a press interview purportedly granted by Shaiubu, where he was quoted as saying that “the Speaker, Mr. Zakawanu Garuba is deceiving us.”

He recalled in his address to the community how in connivance with some other youths, whom he said had also renounced militancy, took two expatriates hostage for about ten hours, confessing that the operation was later foiled by the police.

By Peter Okhiria

The Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has chided the Federal Government on its handling of the present ASUU crisis, saying instead of the crisis which have bedeviled the nation’s education sector, the Federal Government should introduce free education at all levels in the country.

The party said the country could afford to foot [...]

I could hear voices but could not fathom what they were saying. I could have stayed for eternity when all of a sudden I heard people shouting that they have found someone alive. That was how I was dragged out with my wife.

The Presidency yesterday commenced a lobby for the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the Senate as it emerged that government was getting zero revenue from some offshore oil production blocks as a result of fiscal arrangements with the joint ventures.

Legal fireworks are set to resume before the Supreme Court today in the cases filed by states against the Federal Government on illegal deductions from the Federation Account and breaches of Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution.

An agreement to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara Desert to Algeria will be signed next week in Abuja, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Monday.

A former security guard to the late NADECO chieftain, Mr. Alfred Rewane, Lucky Igbinovia and his (Rewane’s) driver, Elvis Irenuna, yesterday narrated to a Lagos High Court how he was killed in October 1995.

Action Congress (AC) in Osun State yesterday suspended the party’s chairman of Odo-Otin local government area of the state, Chief B.O. Ewenla.

The controversy trailing the inauguration of the 18 caretaker Chairmen by Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State last week may have been doused as the chairmen resumed in their offices and subsequently inaugurated 108 interim committee members in their councils.