THE 56TH annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, which ended, last week, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State was characterised by frank talk aimed at building a stronger and more efficient Nigerian system. Out-gone National President of the body, Mr Austin Alegeh, SAN, set the ball rolling in his address at the opening ceremony, when he charged the Federal Government to fight corruption within the ambit of the law.

Former national coach, Toni Urhobo has dismissed claims by former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi that the present board of the AFN was responsible for the decline of the sport.

A stitch in time saves nine is a time worn expression but the extent to which we live by this dictum as a nation is to be seen in the way we address issues of national importance.

ON Monday, August 8, 2016, we were told that the Federal Government had revived the War Against Indiscipline, WAI, a priority programme of Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s 1984/85 military regime. It was under the control of the late Major General Tunde Idiagbon, his Deputy (Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters).

GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the APC, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, yesterday raised an alarm that the PDP, had recruited the militants, who caused mayhem in Rivers State, with a view to perpetrating violence during the election.

IF the truth must be told, Nigeria today is on the edge of a precipice – with its economy hanging perilously on the balance. The situation is so precarious that President Muhammadu Buhari will be seeking Emergency Powers to tackle the economy as soon as the National Assembly resumes from its vacation on September 12, 2016.