Nigeria’s state legislative houses have severally failed the test of democratic reasonableness having repeatedly proved to be tools of state governors against the very principles of separation of power

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as unconstitutional and illegal the alleged extension of tenure of local government council chairmen in the state by the state government.

ABUJA — Former Director of Finance and Accounts at the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Air Commodore Salisu Abdullahi Yushau (retd), yesterday, revealed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that all past Air Chief Marshals, diverted N558.2 million monthly from funds meant for the payment of salaries of Nigerian Air Force officials.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, slated April 8 for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to respond to an application by the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, asking Justice Okon Abang to hands-off his trial.

THE Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has commenced the distribution of relief materials worth about N20 million to the victims of last year’s minor flood disaster that affected some parts of the state.

The Nigerian Army said yesterday that soldiers prosecuting the war on terror on Wednesday night rescued 180 hostages, mainly women and children, who had been in Boko Haram captivity for months in Borno State.

ABUJA — The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declined to quash the 13-count charge preferred against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, by the Federal Government.

THE Ekiti lawmaker, Hon. Afolabi Akanni, who was recently released from detention by the Directorate of State Services, DSS, during the alleged invasion and arrest of some lawmakers at the Assembly Complex in Ado-Ekiti , Ekiti State Capital, arrived in the state yesterday and was greeted with fanfare by a mammoth crowd .

The Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium will come alive today, as 12 boxers seek to win N1million and the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy for the best boxer at the sixth edition of GOtv Boxing Night.

Auwal Musa Rafsanjani is the executive director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC).

SINCE almost 10 months ago today, that Buhari became our President with his Party’s powerful mantra of ‘Change’ we can point to some few areas of the change, the first being his avowed fight against corruption, which is very good and encouraging.

I HAVE thought over an issue in the last few weeks. Who are the best ambassadors of a country? The professional diplomats in well-tailored clothes, exhibiting a cultured presence aided by good diction? Or the citizens who fan out to other countries usually to make a living, and exhibiting what can be termed their national traits?

Last Saturday, Federal and State legislative election re-runs took place in my home state, Rivers. Many people gloomily expressed fears beforehand that the exercise would be violent and chaotic; and these fears turned out to be very well-founded.

Three accused persons standing trial before an Onitsha High court for allegedly kidnapping the Chairman of G. U. O. Motors Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at the premises of All Saints Anglican Church Cathedral, Onitsha, Anambra state will on Thursday, April 28, this year know their fate.

RIVERS State Government has condoled with the Nigerian Army over the death of a Major and another soldier killed by sea pirates on the high sea in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of the state before the last re-run elections.