Outgoing members of the National Assembly are not likely to get their April/May salaries and allowances before they quit on May 29 as the N10billion loan obtained by the House and the question mark over the 2011 budget threaten to affect the payment of their salaries and allowances.

Very soon, the Life of this National Assembly will come to an end. Consequently, time is ripe to assess its performance in all areas of its works as an arm of Government. It is conceivable that concerned stakeholders would be looking at the National Assembly from different angles.

Not a solitary roll of drum or one sound of the bugle was heard; no thud of marching feet; no flags at half-mast was flown, or the draping of a casket with the national colours observed; no laying of wreaths, only the shedding of tears from close family and friends … . And yet, the country was supposed to be in mourning. Or were we?

AGAINST the backdrop of the recent post_election violence in some Northerner states a former Provost Marshall of the Nigerian Army, Brig-General Don Idada Ikponmwen (rtd) has asked security agencies in the country to be watchful to avoid a repeat.

As the list of the Super Eagles went public on Thursday with the name of West Brom’s prolific goal poacher Osaze Odemwingie conspicuously missing and raising eyebrows, the Nigerian Football Association has stated that the decision to leave Osaze out of the team was borne out of him (Osaze) walking out of the team after their last Orange CAF African Nations Cup Qualifiers against Ethiopia in Abuja.

Unknown gunmen, yesterday, killed a pastor and one other person at Jaruma village in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

A fresh scarcity of kerosene is here and consumers are not smiling, already under pressure from an economy that seems to be in a free fall.

It is said that those who want to be ranked among the best tennis players in the world, must start learning the trade from the age of five or at most age of seven.

Scores of aides and personal staff of outgoing members of the National Assembly are facing an uncertain future after their principals lost in the bids for re-election and are preparing to depart the Senate or the House of Representatives.

The Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, wants President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint mostly technocrats from well-established professional bodies in the country, to assist him deliver democracy dividends to millions of Nigerians.