We may have been naive but at that time the key people in government assured us. We came with our first 11 in order to move the government from Abacha to June 12

Ossai Nicholas Ossai is a lawmaker representing Ndokwa/Ukwuani Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview, he gives an insight into the kind of bipartisan relationship to expect from members of the House.

ROMANS 10:8-10 says, “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”

One would have thought that nearly two months after the presidential declaration, the apparently abandoned stadium would have changed to befit Abiola’s heroic status 

IN his lead paper titled: “African Pentecostalism, civic role and social capital engineering”, a United Kingdom based historian of the University of Edinburgh and University of Bayreuth, Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Emmanuel Anim averred that in the face of dwindling economic and failing welfare systems, Pentecostal Churches are demonstrating increasing social relevance by redefining their public role in ways that complement basic religious-spiritual tasks.