AS the Senate prepares for resumption next week, Tuesday, plans have been concluded by the leadership of the legislature to place six senators on suspension over their involvement in the recent petition to the police over alleged forgery of Senate rules.

So many aspects of our lives seem to be lived online these days, whether we’re browsing on our mobile on the bus, sitting at a library computer, on our laptops… it’s hard to imagine how we ever lived without the internet.

Tragedy struck in Hospital Road, Aba, Abia State, Monday, as a man identified as Uba Okoroafor stabbed his sister in-law to death and committed suicide thereafter.

THIRTY-SIX State chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and that of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja have given the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party, a 14-day ultimatum to summon a meeting of the National Executive Committee, to address burning issues in the party.

Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, yesterday gave a fresh insight into the bail out given the 36 states of the federation by the federal government, saying it was not meant to pay outstanding salaries and allowances being owed workers and pensioner across the country as widely believed.

As part of measures to eradicate poverty among residents, and in Nigeria in general, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos State has provided free three month skill acquisition training for 75 unemployed residents including men and women as well as undisclosed amount of financial support for 25 widows in the council area.

The beauty of every woman, they say lies in the hair. The African woman takes pride in the uniqueness that is found in carrying natural, well groomed hair. For some, it is a sign of our identity while others may carry their hair in its natural state either because it is fashionable or for a whole lot more reasons.

We frown at a lot of things that the religions are against but we don’t look at certain modern realities and this question of abortion comes under that. When I was doing my postgraduate training, Britain was one of the first countries that legalized abortion and they had a lot of reasons for that. Those reasons are not peculiar to Britain. Since I was going to work in their maternity unit we had to sign a contract that said when you are there you will be able to carry out abortions.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, Chief Tony Nwoye, has blamed the ongoing crisis in the Anambra State chapter of the party on the alleged ambition of the national publicity secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh.

ABUJA— THE 36 state governors cried out, yesterday, over the worsening economic crises in the country and the failure of the Federal Government to release to them the bailout promised by President Muhammadu Buhari sometime ago.

It was a black Wednesday for the family of Mr. John Nwabufo of Nkwelle-Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State as a generating set reportedly set his family house ablaze, with the man and his wife, Ndidiamaka, and six children managing to escape death by the whiskers.

Human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to nullify the appointment of Mrs Amina Bala Zakari as the acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

PETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has called on the Federal Government to pay up its counterpart fund (cash call) in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Joint Venture, JV, operations with the oil companies, claiming non-payment is negatively affecting the operations of the JV.

SOME officers of the Naval School of Finance and Logistics, Owerri-Nta, Abia State have allegedly forced 15 workers of an oil company in the commercial city to lie in mud water and drink it.

The street of the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C., burst at the seams with highly enthusiastic and passionate young Nigerians who came out in their numbers to attend the EbonyLife TV Meet & Greet interactive session with President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) in commemoration of the President’s historic visit to the United States of America.