THE recently-concluded screening and confirmation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees by the Senate left many well-meaning and discerning Nigerians wondering: what exactly are the national and public interest objectives of this legislative exercise?

AS Nigerians await the next line of action by the National Assembly when the deadline given to Governor Godwin Obaseki to issue a fresh letter of proclamation expires in few days time and several litigations across the country already trailing the inauguration, a legal practitioner and public notary, Olayiwola Afolabi yesterday said the legal action taken by some of the lawmakers challenging the June 17 inauguration of the house and the election of leaders would not stand as he said there are obvious deficiencies in the suit instituted.

The Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria, PenOp, has implored pension contributors under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) to avail themselves of the ongoing data recapturing exercise by going to their various Pension Fund Administrators, PFAs, to update their data.

IT is no longer conjectural, Nigeria is at war. In July 2019 alone, some 282 of our citizens were gunned down or violently killed. If they are not killed by marauding herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers, they are killed by security agents.

AIICO Insurance Plc has said that it recorded of 32 percent growth in its gross written premium which rose to ¦ 25.4 billion for the first half of 2019 (H1’19) from N19.2 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2018 (H1’18).

Yesterday, we served you the first part of an engaging interview with former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Christopher Kolade, on the state of the nation. Today, we bring you the concluding part covering how soldiers made the Nigerian civil war inevitable, his challenge in serving in the Obasanjo and Jonathan’s administrations and how to avert a repeat of June 12, 1993 election annulment among others.

Apart from the nightmare residents of Apapa, workers and visitors to Apapa go through on daily basis as a result of the unending gridlock in the axis caused by the menace of articulated trucks and tankers, which has remained a major concern, one other serious issue of concern is the degradation of Apapa environment by the gridlock.

OLEH—HUNDREDS of indigenes of Aradhe community, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, have been rendered homeless following a ravaging flood that submerged the community.

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari has called on countries in West Africa to expand their democratic frontiers to allow for more inclusion of vulnerable groups in the society.

Port Harcourt—THE United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, has said it is bad that much time has been lost on the implementation of its recommendations on the cleanup of oil polluted Ogoniland, Rivers State, since 2011.