STRONG indications emerged that the controversy surrounding the 2016 Appropriation Bill would be put to rest on Monday as members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations were having marathon meetings since Thursday. As part of moves to end the quagmire, the Committee on Friday entered into another round of meeting, with a vow to produce a clean copy on Monday, afterwhich the report would be presented on Tuesday and deliberated on by the Senators for onward passage to President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday for assent.

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Edo state Chief Solomon Edebiri has called on the state Government to take proactive security steps to forestall any attack by Fulani herdsmen on communities across the state.

A group of sparsely dressed men openly display guns and dangerous weapons as they roam the streets. They are not apprehended. They enter other people’s properties and cow the owner to near submission with their weapons and their arrogance. They arrogate to themselves the right to feed their cattle without recognising the rights of others to own farms and earn a living.

At birth, no one knows what sex means. But with age, exposure and maturity, we all get to know about sex. Our knowledge, ideas and beliefs about sex often times will depend largely on what our society stipulates it to be. Therefore, not all of us will have the same ideas and attitude about sex. What is right and proper differs from individual to individual and society to society. However, what we know and have come to accept as the norm about sex, sexuality and sexual orientation today, was not what it used to be many, many years ago in many cultures.

WITH the galloping rate of divorce that currently exists world-wide, it stands to reason that second marriages should be as popular as first ones. The snag is second marriages also mean step-children and step-parents surface, resulting in some complications in an otherwise happy ever-after relationship.

By Sonny Atumah The talks for a possible oilfreezeagain ended in a deadlock with infighting between two rival Middle East oil producing giants and adversaries, Saudi Arabia and Iran.The 18 oil producingthat gathered to stabilize output were from OPEC and non-OPEC membersthat contribute three quarters of total world production. The April 17 disagreement in the […]

Prof. Ornstein has not been far from the mind of this writer since the trial of Senator Bukola Saraki began. For it was Prof. Ornstein who propounded the theory that the US Congress suffers from low ratings based on changes in the electronic and print media which have led to a greater emphasis on negative and unwarranted sensationalisation of happenings inside the hallowed chambers of the U.S. Congress, which he termed “tabloidisation”. Senator Bukola Saraki is the President of the Nigerian Senate and the tabloidisation of his trial derives from the exalted position he holds!

Saraki, the god of Kwara politics, is on the ropes. And he now sees clearly the inhumanity of gods. When candidness or even pretensions to it is traded in the public, something is let out. We know Saraki is politically shrewd , he has been constituting governments in Kwara effortlessly. But we didn’t know he can write a book of lamentations. Footballers don’t cry when shoved, because pushing and shoving, bad as they are , are now part of the game. Saraki can moan but nothing that has happened is culturally perverse.

We live at a time and in a country where time-honoured clichés and sayings are being partly or totally debunked. For example, “the patient dog eats the fattest bone,” but many a time in Nigeria the patient dog meets an empty plate. At a seminar in a foremost hotel in Abuja, lunch was a buffet and participants were going table by table. My table was among the last and when I saw some people from my table shunting, I was disappointed, but by the time we got there, I understood why.

A former Navy commander, Lamina Adeleye Kadiri (rtd) has called on Lagos state government to prevail on security officials from intervening in a land dispute between his firm and one Ayodele Eniola.

A traditional ruler in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State, Chief Omotayo Adeboye, has donated laptops, stationeries and food items to pupils and a charity home in the community.

THE Fulani herdsmen and some of their petty-traders have deserted towns and villages in Enugu State, following the attack on Nimbo Community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Monday morning.

FORMER General Officer Commanding, GOC, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, Friday, categorically stated he had no connection with a new militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, which claimed to have destroyed the Forcados 48-inch Export Pipeline in Delta State, lately.

Aero Contractors Airline weekend sacked more than One Hundred staff of the airline. The workers said to have been outsourced from a labour consultant to the airline were said to have been sacked via text messages.

NO fewer than ten filling stations have been sealed across Ondo state by the officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Task Force on petroleum in the state for selling Petrol above the pump price.