When the news broke on March 4 that operatives of the Directorate of State Security Services (DSS) had stormed the Assembly Complex of Ekiti State, and allegedly whisked away four lawmakers to Abuja, mixed reactions trailed the development.

After the Supreme Court decision that the Code of Conduct Tribunal, as presently constituted, has the jurisdiction to try Senate President Bukola Saraki, the case has continued. Since then, several legal luminaries including Prof. Ben Nwabueze, SAN; a former justice of the Supreme Court, Samson Uwaifo; and Mr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, have faulted the apex court judgment on the grounds that it established a wrong precedent as the CCT was not meant to prosecute criminal matters. However, it appears that those legal opinions have been treated as mere academic and, therefore, do not really matter. The decision of the Supreme Court is final and anyone who seeks a redress would have to turn to God.

Governor Nyesom Wike, in this interview, speaks on the battle for Rivers State. Wike alleges that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security services worked against his party, the PDP, in recent rerun polls into the National and state assemblies.

When 26-year-old Abigail Olori met Alhaja Latifat and her husband three years ago, she felt she had met an angel in human form who would turn the odds of her life for good. Considering the fact that she had lost her parents and was saddled with the responsibility of catering for her siblings, she jumped at the offer to travel to Italy to work as an auxiliary nurse for the couple. Unknown to her, however, she was making the biggest mistake of her life.

Worried by the prevailing hash economic situation in the country, the Managing Director of Kuka Consumer Healthcare Limited, an indigenous pharmaceutical company, Chris Ukah, has appealed to Nigerians to support efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari – led government so as to put the nation’s economy on the path of sustainable recovery.

In what appears to be a twist to the lingering controversy over the propriety or otherwise of the investigation into the $2.1 billion arms scandal linked to the campaign activities of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2015 general elections, the Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has released the details of how his group expended the N53m disbursed to it in tranches for the elections.

WORRIED by the pains Nigerians have been going through in the last couple of weeks following the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol, which has led to long queues at filling stations and panic buying, the Senate, last Tuesday, played host to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu.

THE Catholic Church, has sent a strong warning to Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai over the move to enact a religious bill to prohibit preaching of religious ser-mons in the state.

Ogun State Police Command has uncovered a spiritualists’ den in Iyana-Ilogbo axis of Sango-Ota area of the state, and arrested two suspects.

Wife of the Inspector General of Police, Mrs Agharase Arase, has appealed to young mothers to stop dumping their new born babies in dust bin and gutter, saying the act is painful and deeply disturbing.Mrs. Arase, who is the President, Police Officers Wives Association, POWA, spoke in Port Harcourt, yesterday, when POWA donated food items to children at an orphanage homeRepresented by the Chairperson, Rivers State Chapter of POWA and wife of the state Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Margaret Kimo, the wife of the IGP said the donation to Port Harcourt Children Home was part of the activities lined up for the police week.

THE people of Immringi community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State are in shock following the allegation of incestuous relationship between a middle aged man, Bamekpa, and his 12 year old daughter (names withheld).

Sports Minister Solomon Dalung has disagreed with the Nigeria Football Federation’s quest to get a foreign coach for the Super Eagles, after they were eliminated from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

FORTUNES of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, suffered yet another setback in Delta State, following the defection of a former member of the State House of Assembly, Chief Joseph Oshevire and hundreds of his supporters defected to the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Esogban of Benin Kingdom and Chairman of the Benin Forum, umbrella organisation for Binis home and in the Diaspora, Chief David Edebiri, in this interview, speaks about his group’s tour of projects executed by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State. The revered Benin chief, fondly referred as the ‘Oracle’ of Benin Kingdom, also speaks on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the politics of Edo.

The crisis in Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, took a twist, yesterday, as the state executive of the party announced the suspension of a former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, from the party.