Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki on Wednesday averted what could have been the outright rejection of the nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari who are to be screened by the upper chambre.

For three days, Governor Nasir El Rufai literally re-located Kaduna State Government House to the cosy 5th Chuker Polo and Country Club, about 15km east of Kaduna metropolis.

The Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, should be renamed the Code of Corruption Bureau, CMB, as long as Mr. Saba is in charge. The fellow either has no sense of recent history or is just plain untrustworthy for such an important position. In his many years as Chairman of CCB the organization has brought only two important people to court. The first was Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State, in 2011; the second is Senator Bukola Saraki – the current Senate President in 2015. The CCB apparently, wakes up every four years to select a victim to justify its existence – which had become almost a criminal drain on our resources with nothing to show for it.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has fixed October 17 as the flag off date for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship campaign in the state.

Captain of industry, Mr. Gamaliel Onosode, Passed on last week. The eldest son of the deceased, Ese, in this interview, speaks on the life and times of the man fondly called ‘the boardroom giant’.

Nigeria’s 1996 Olympic feat, the best in her history, is already beginning to sound like a broken record. That year’s Games held in the City of Atlanta, USA offered the country her biggest breakthrough in the international sporting arena when her contingent bagged 2 gold,1 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Kingsley Kuku, immediate past Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, is one of the promotes of the Niger Delta struggle, having been part of the Kaiama Declaration of 1998, which set the stage for the agitation for a better region, and having participated actively in most of the programmes that subsequently resulted in the granting of amnesty to militants on June 25, 2009.

Chief Charles Idahosa is Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Political Matters. He celebrated his 62 birthday last week and used that opportunity to speak on national issues and his home state. In this interview, Idahosa says his boss will dictate the tune on his successor in 2016 just as he dismisses the insinuation that his Bini people are ganging up against the governor How has life been with you at 62?

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is taking the Federal Government N14.2 billion loan facility through the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN,to spur infrastructural development of Enugu State.

Sam Onwuemedo, Director of Press and Media for the Government House, Owerri, a position generally known in common parlance as “Chief Press Officer to the Governor,” shot-off a protest e-mail to me quite recently. It was, he said, “nauseating” – those were his words – that I had it in for Mr. Anayo “Rochas” Okorocha, Governor of Imo state. I could sense Sam, even in the cold alphabets of his mail, straining to remain polite, and maintain the good-keep between us built on a long relationship. He was, after all, once my colleague in the Vanguard.