By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA—A bill seeking to cancel Federal Government’s annual grants to political parties was read for the second time yesterday at the Senate. The bill entitled: ‘For an act to repeal the Electoral Act 2006 and enact the Independence National Electoral Commission Act’ was sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu […]

YESTERDAY’S weekly Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF, provided an ample opportunity for cabinet members to pay glowing tributes to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as ministers took turns to eulogize the life and times of the immediate past Nigerian leader in a valedictory session.

Indications that President Goodluck Jonathan might contest the 2011 presidential election emerged, yesterday, as elder statesman and founding member of the People’s Domcratic Party, PDP, Prince Emma Anyanwu, has said the Yar’Adua/Jonathan joint ticket remains valid till 2015.

FORMER Minister in Charge of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and two key officials of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, were arraigned, yesterday, before a Federal High Court in Maitama over alleged abuse of office and corruption.

It all started shortly after we began taking his course. He would go on and on about our dressing, picking some of us out of the crowd. I was his first casualty, nothing I did seems to please him. One day he told me to see him after the end of the lecture in his office. He said he wanted to ask me a few things and advise me on how to go about life. It was a big lie.