ONE of the most socially significant bills to be introduced by a legislator is now before the Senate. Its proponent is Mr. Ovie Omo-Agege, only about three months old in that conclave of self-inflating legislators who crave the bogus adulation of “distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.” By this bill alone, Omo-Agege has surpassed what older tenants of the Senate, some in their third or fourth terms, can ever hope to achieve besides living large and laundering our stolen moneys in offshore tax havens.

IT was ten years ago this week that the first article appeared in this space. It was 13 May, 2006, I think, that the first article was published.

THE Lagos State Government has identified over 500 new distressed and abandoned buildings that could collapse any moment in the state.

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Group Managing Director, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday, revealed how he received threats from a Niger Delta militant.

Since the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2015 general election, the party has continued to lose grip with its support base arising from the spate of defections hitting the party.