Twelve years ago this month, the 5th Senate was inaugurated with Senator Adolphus Wabara as Senate President and I was sworn in as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after my election to represent the Central Senatorial District of Cross River State. I was assigned Committees and made Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals with Senator Cosmas Niagwan of blessed memory as Chairman.

LAGOS, Nigeria’s acclaimed commercial nerve centre, has within the last two weekS been visited by two fire-related tragedies involving petrol tankers. The first happened on June 2, 2015. It was a day many residents, shop owners, land owners, children, businessmen and traders in the Iyana- Ipaja area of the state have already dubbed a ‘Black Tuesday’. And they have their reason. On that fateful day, property and valuables worth millions of Naira were lost to an inferno which left 14 people injured and rendered hundreds of families homeless.

Clerk of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Mrs Umma Hikima, yesterday, proclaimed the inauguration of the first session of the Fifth Assembly, at the Lugard Hall, following a directive by Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i.

Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Princess Chinwe Nwaebili, yesterday, said the legislature passed 50 bills within her four years tenure.

Striking workers of Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, have denied barring the embattled Medical Director, Dr. Angela Uwakwem, from duty.

Americans are so used to their country being at war that one of the questions creeping up in the race for the 2016 presidential election is: Can America wage peace?

Rivers State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed a resolution asking Governor Nyesom Wike to sack members of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC and the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission, RSJSC over alleged abuse of their functions.

Legal move to disqualify Femi Gbajabiamila from emerging as Speaker of the House of Representatives failed before Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Kelechi Ubani, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Governor Nyesom Wike cannot dissolve or nullify the May local government elections in the state.

A 23-year-old, Lebanese, Yve Awad, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for allegedly attempting to traffic cocaine to Lebanon.