ABUJA — It was the end of an era, yesterday, when the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, formally handed over to Amb. Ahmed Wali as acting chairman of the electoral body.

Immediate past Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy & Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday described as “false and malicious,” the allegation by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, that she spent $2.1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, without authorization.

SENATOR Mao Ohuabunwa has said the plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to remove the Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu, would end in futility, noting that only the Senate that elected him had the constitutional powers to do so.

LAGOS—Controversy is currently trailing the death of a housewife, Joy Bakare, 35, after she gave birth on Aya-Oye Street, Ejiigbo, a suburb of Lagos.

Governor Dickson is, however, determined to break the second term jinx. No governor since the creation of the state has served two full terms as all former governors have had their second terms truncated for one reason or the other.

Most motorists and other road users were pleasantly surprised when they were confronted by a tankers-free Apapa-Oshodi Expressway on Sunday. The surprise continued the following day. Indeed what they saw was more than a surprise, it was more like a miracle.

As he turns 55 today, he must have a special reason to be grateful to his Maker, the Almighty Allah. After almost two years of intense vilification in the hands of people of power, Dr. Bolanle Olawale Babalakin, SAN, must be looking forward to heave a sigh of relief this year, hopefully, from the mountainous hurdles deliberately hurled in his way

The Supreme Court decided to legalise same sex marriages across America. Let me say now that this article is in no way asking for the legalisation of same sex marriages in Nigeria or in Africa.

Mr. Aniekan Umanah, former Commissioner for Information in the Chief Godswill Akpabio’s administration commissioner-designate in the Udom Emmanuel’s administration in this interview berates the judiciary for relocating the Akwa-Ibom State Elections Petitions Tribunal from the state to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) saying it is totally uncalled for. He also reacts to the claims of rancour in the relationship between the former State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio and his successor, Governor Udom Emmanuel.

Deacon Okey Ogbodo, is presently the secretary of the Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and was at various times Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Lands, Housing and Urban Development, during the administration of Chimaroke Nnamani between 1999 and 2007. In his earlier years, he was a banker, trade unionist, businessman, and now “Minister of the Gospel”. Deacon Ogbodo spoke to reporters in the Enugu State capital on a wide range of issues, including his rumoured interest in the chairmanship position of PDP in the state.

Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) president,Solomon Ogba is in the running for one of the nine individual IAAF Council member seats when elections come up on the first day of the 50th IAAF Congress scheduled for Beijing, China on August 19-20 2015.

EARLIER this year, in the wake of the rather comprehensive defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 polls, Nigerian academic and Sahara Reporters columnist, Pius Adesanmi, had rechristened Doyin Okupe, presidential aide on media to Goodluck Jonathan, by turning ‘bastard’ into a proper noun and making it one of his middle names.

The Nigerian Insurers Association, NIA has appealed to motorists to make sure they buy genuine insurance certificates from insurance companies, brokers or accredited agents.

Dr. Olukayode Ajulo is the National Secretary of the Labour Party, LP. In this interview, he describes last week’s commotion that engulfed the House of Representatives as a shameful act. He also speaks on the role of LP as an opposition party and Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s emergence as chairman of the Peoples Demcoratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum.

There are a number of companies with significant total capital employed but which companies are not listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. Besides their registration under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, these companies operate in areas such as banking, telecommunications, crude oil exploration and the electric power sector in which areas the companies require the grant of licences from government agencies before the companies can operate.