LIKE the proverbial cat with nine lives, Speaker of the House Representatives, Dimeji Sabur Bankole, once again, survived a grand plan to humble him out of office yesterday, a few weeks to his hand over date.

CRITICISMS has continued to trail the zoning formula adopted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for top political offices in which Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, was allocated to the South-East geo-political zone.

IT is now clear that the supplementary elections for governor conducted Friday last week in Imo State was an ego massage; the elections were duly concluded on Tuesday April 26 and a winner, Chief Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, clearly emerged as the winner. But like Chief Okorocha has said, it was still alright to ‘fulfill all righteousness’.

The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, has berated the governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, over his decision to hike the fees of students in the state’s higher institution— Anambra State University, ANSU

WE may be getting somewhere with this issue of the age of Nigerian football players, or sports people altogether. Not too long ago, depending on your real age, Nigerian players had no reason to tamper with their age since most competitions were open – if you were good enough you weighed in. Juniors, intermediates, and seniors competed for the few opportunities.

Nigeria’s women under-23 team, is hoping to turn the table around against their Ghanaian counterparts in the All Africa Games second leg qualifiers billed for the Ohenejan Stadium in Accra.

AFTER the 2011 general polls, the 36 state governors of the country can be grouped into five broad categories. They are governors who did not contest governorship elections; governors who sought second term and lost; those who are serving their second terms but could not deliver their states to their respective parties; second term governors who delivered their states to their parties; and of course first time governors who got re-elected.

By Gbenga  Akanmu When the Auditor-General Bill, pending before the Lagos State House of Assembly, becomes law, it will give more powers and independence to the office of the Auditor-General by placing it on first line charge.  In a address by  the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, through Mr. Sanai Agunbiade […]

Pandemonium took over the entire Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, WRPC and its sister company, the Product and Pipeline Marketing Company, PPMC, both subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Monday evening when like a tragic bolt from the blues fire explosion engulfed the loading Island of the PPMC depot.

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