IT is the season of budgets. The federal government, states and local government councils are going through the ritual, for that is what the annual event has become. It is the time to reel out figures government will spend on itself.

WHAT began as a good year for the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria sadly is ending on a rather sad note as the public rating of the upper chamber of the National Assembly is at it an all time low. While the House of Representatives was prevaricating on what its role should be in the nation especially when there appeared to be loss of direction in government at the beginning of 2010, the senate played a vital role in stabilizing the country with its proclamation of the doctrine of Necessity.

Founder of the Northern Union, NU, and Second Republic Senate leader, Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki has said the union has nothing against the presidential ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan whom he described as a very humble personality he had ever met.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has offered overstayed inmates and those awaiting trial at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos, of his support in getting them out.

AFTER several months of dilly-dallying, a former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has finally chickened out of the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. He pitched his tent with the Accord Party which is little known in the state.