Following the move by the Buhari administration to investigate the $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal, it has been discovered that the $26.5 million (about N5.2 billion) plea bargain money received from the multinational oil servicing company was not paid into any of the Federal Government accounts.

The uniqueness of the forthcoming Kogi State gubernatorial election is not in doubt as it will be remarkable for many reasons. Aside the fact that it is going to be the first major election after the 2015 general elections, it will be an opportunity to open another chapter in the PDP troubled politics.

For years, pro-democracy activists sold the idea, indeed fought on the idea, that the democratic alternative was the only means by which a free people must organize and govern themselves. Freedom ultimately comes when we have a voice in the affairs of our community, and in the larger space of the nation through effective representation: the kind of representation in the Assembly of the people gathered to determine the ways and means of our national governance.

Hajia Fatima Kehinde Okunuga, an Ijebu-born princess, was an aspirant for the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, she speaks on the exigency of women political empowerment, causes of gender inequity and possible ways to ameliorate the situation

78-year- old former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, Prof. Albert Ilemobade, who was gruesomely murdered by his domestic staff on June 21, seemed to have had premonition of death.