After I spent one month in the cell and paid N500, 000 and the trial, some officers asked me to keep quiet, that if I said anything or tried to fight the system, they would rope me into one criminal charge and send me to prison.

The Evan Enwerem Senate is remembered for being a rubber stamp of the executive. The Chuba Okadigbo Senate is hailed for among others, its sound articulation of legislative procedures, flamboyant ventilation of parliamentary cadence, but also, for the contract scandal that eclipsed it.

FOR dumping the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) for other opposition parties, the national leadership of the party yesterday ordered the National Vice Chairman of the party in the South East Zone, Chief Olisa Metu and Chairman of the Caretaker Committee in Anambra State, Professor Osita Ogbu to immediately deregister the names of Dr. Andy Uba and Nicholas Ukachukwu from the party.

The House of Representatives will on the resumption of plenary next week push through second reading, “A Bill for an Act to Provide for Measures to Combat Terrorism and for Related Matters”.

In the 50s, 60s before independence, people like Zik, Chief Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and many others, who were political giants, were in the field. Many of them owned newspapers to fight for independence