The National Assembly has strictly followed this objective reality since the birth of the Fourth Republic in 1999. Members of ruling parties which invariably command huge majorities in both chambers have often risen above the interests and demands of party leaders to vote in the national interest at crunch moments.

In Nigeria, the Judiciary though often succumbing to manipulations, has fought a good fight both to survive as an estate of the realm and to remain the last hope of the common man which it is constitutionally and morally mandated to be.   

IT is no longer news that Nigeria holds the unenviable world record in the number of out-of-school children. In 2013, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Social Organisation, UNESCO’s Education for All Monitoring Report, EAGMR, unveiled the shaming report that Nigeria, with about 10.5 million children out-of-school, accounted for 47 per cent of the world’s total.

The senators said the increasing debt profile, if not checked, would put the nation’s generations unborn in very great danger. According to them, if caution was not taken, it would return the country to a highly indebted one as was the situation prior to the 2005 debt relief granted it by the Paris Club.

THE struggle by the Organised Labour to secure a new National Minimum Wage, NMW, scored yet another success on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 as the Senate approved the N30,000 agreed by a tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government. The House of Representatives had already okayed the NMW on January 19, 2019.