A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Mr Ken Imasuagbon, has stressed the need for the National Assembly to urgently pass a law that would compel government to render assistance to orphanages.

WERE the issues at stake not serious enough to provoke constitutional crisis – and push the country to a brink again – Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, would have been winning awards from Nollywood for the imaginative stretches he is forcing on the law.

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that President Umaru Yar’Adua would neither resign his office nor allow his Vice, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck, to act as President for a second on account of his health.

The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday made a u-turn on the plans by its sitting Chairman and Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, to administer the oath of office on his successor, Justice Aloysius Katsina Alu, on Thursday 31 December 2009 which coincided with his (Kutigi) retirement date.

MAJORITY Leader of the House of Representatives, Col. Tunde Akogun (rtd), has canvassed the need for genuine electoral reforms to be put in place by the relevant authorities, saying problems confronting the conduct of a free and fair election in the country would persist unless concerted efforts were made now.