Why must lawmakers be compensated for their own altruistic partisan conviction?

Senate President Bukola Saraki’s allusion that a government within government exists in Nigeria is a complete fallacy, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said Wednesday night.

ENUGU—PROFESSOR of Political Science and Director, Institute of American Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof Jonah Onuoha, has said that the sack of the Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr Lawal Daura by the acting President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo was a sign that the nation was heading towards democratic consolidation.

Ibadan—Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH has directed its members to begin a two-week warning strike over alleged poor funding of the institution by the two owner state governments of Oyo and Osun.

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has refuted stakeholders’ disagreement over its remittances of N15.6 billion to the Federal Government in two years.

BENIN—THE lifeless body of a young woman identified as Precious, said to be a commercial sex worker, was yesterday morning discovered at the roadside in Upper Mission Extension, around Imuetinyan Junction, on the outskirts of Benin, the Edo State capital.

The Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has intercepted a truckload of codeine, 49 cartons of tramadol and other items with duty paid value of N2.1 billion.

NIGERIANS in South Africa feel increasingly abandoned to their fate as the spate of xenophobic killings continues. As at May this year, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had on a visit to South Africa’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Lulu Mnguni, declared that 116 Nigerians were killed in the past two years.

GOVERNMENT everywhere has a responsibility to protect the lives and property of its citizens. This is apparently one area where our Government is threading the path of failure.

ASABA—Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, last night commended the acting President, Prof.  Yemi Osinbajo, for his “decisive step to save our hard earned democracy and the country from total embarrassment by sacking the Director- General of Department of State Security, DSS,  Lawal Daura, who behaved in a manner, unheard of in democratic settings

PORT HAR-COURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has urged Nigerian youths not to only be change agents or freedom fighters, but to be fully involved in the pursuit of a better Nigeria.

FRIEDRICH Ebert Stiftung,FES, has called for sustainéd and deepened collaborations of public sector, private sector, labour, civil society organisations, CSOs, and other interest groups in policy campaigns and advocacy towards Nigeria’s industrialisation drive.

THE wave of defections rocking Nigeria’s political clime may soon hit Edo State as no fewer than eight lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  in the state House of Assembly may have concluded plans to defect to other political parties.

IN its determination to pursue development of the capital market and key into the Federal Government Economic Recovery Growth Plan, ERGP, the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, said it is set to evaluate the implementation of its 10 year Capital Master Plan.

Ado-Ekiti—The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, yesterday, approved the prayers of the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in the July 14 poll, Kolapo Olusola to serve notice of Petition on Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.