Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Emeka Ihedioha, has declared the resolve of the 7th assembly to redeem its image and win back the confidence of Nigerians.

In view of the crises in four African nations, the Federal Government has so far evacuated over 10,000 Nigerians between the months of February and April 2011.

Justice Abeeb Abiru of an Ikeja High Court, has ordered the Inspector-General of Police, to produce the Managing Director of Folio Communications Limited, Mr. Fidelis Anosike, his brother, Noel, and their company to answer to the charge against them.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday gave an insight into his economic agenda for Nigeria in the next four years, as he called for the establishment of a tax regime on goods imported into Africa as a means of funding infrastructural projects on the continent.

Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu, has charged Team Bayelsa to make the state proud by clinching the first position in the next week’s National Sports Festival taking place in Port Harcourt Rivers State.

The Bank of Industry, BoI, has expressed readiness to partner with the Kwara State Government to generate electricity.

THE Northern Nigeria of today comprises 19 states, and to a very large extent, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. Despite the heterogeneous ethnic composition of the North, the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group still predominates, with over 70 percent of its people belonging to the Hausa-Fulani ethnic stock. By extension, the historical evolution of the Hausa group is closely linked with other ethnic groups that can be found in the region.

LAST week, Mr. Sam Amuka came to Abuja. I met him in the company of Alhaji Samaila Isa Funtua, and as has become norm, when two or three people meet today, we discussed the state of our country. Uncle Sam re-iterated fears about the deep chasm in perspective, between North and South.

I have come under fire, lately, from quarters accusing me of pressing a mere panic button with intent to malign professional boxing through defining and labeling it as one deliberately designed for self-impoverishment.

IN a constitutional order, government stands on a tripod and governmental powers are shared among several independent but inter-related branches: in a broad sense, while the legislature makes policies, such policies are implemented by the executive and the judiciary steps in to interpret any question arising from the policies or from the Constitution.