Pentecostal statesmanship
FOR a man in his nineties, T.M. Aluko still has a very alert mind, and he has come up with a new novel that bears benedictory testimony to his venerated craft. Our Born Again President, a 218-page novel of intrigues in the affairs of state, tells the compelling story of David Tanbata who leads his country to independence and later becomes transformed in a Pentecostal manner not unlike the Biblical Saul-turned-Paul on the road to Damascus.
Come let’s visit the NASS
NASS is short for National Assembly. I am inviting you to the National Assembly tomorrow. For the avoidance of doubt, tomorrow is Monday, November 16, 2009. The National Assembly? It’s a big complex where you have, making law for our governance, 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives.
N3.5bn crime control money not missing, says minister
POLICE affairs minister, Dr. Ibrahim Lame, has said that the N3.5billion released for crime prevention and control in seven cities of the country is intact and safe in custody of government contrary to the insinuation in some quarters that the money could not be accounted for.
Oyo rerun polls characterised by shootings, ballot box snatching
The rerun elections into the House of Representatives and one vacant
seat in Oyo State House of Assembly were marred by violence as thugs unleashed terror on voters.
On Ojukwu and war
WHEN Odumegwu-Ojukwu sneezes, the nation catches cold. That is to be expected. General Ojukwu showed his paces in war. He led one of the most famous wars of the late 20th century. General Ojukwu led the people of the former Eastern Nigeria with its majority Igbo population in a war in self-defence when they became targets of a genocidal rage.
Senate hinges 2010 budget approval on implementation of 2009 budget
THE Senate ended its annual retreat in Enugu, on Friday, with a warning that its consideration of the 2010 appropriation bill would depend largely on the implementation of the budget of the outgoing year.
