It is unfortunate — Femi Gbaja, House Of Reps, Minority Whip
The motion raised on suspension could have been for a month, two weeks, but it was indefinite and that is unfortunate. What it means is that it will run to the end of the suspension.

Few days after the nation was shocked by the rumpus in the the House of Representatives the speaker of the House is involved in another dispute with the Senate President, David Mark . Bankole had alleged that copies of the amended constitution sent to State Houses of Assembly by the Senate was the doctored one, distinct from the harmonised document arrived at by both chambers of the National Assembly.

THE Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Mr. Peremobowei Ebebi, was, yesterday, sacked by the assembly, 23 days after it initiated impeachment proceedings against him.

The Chairman-designate of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, told the Senate that judging from the assurances he received from the Presidency when he was nominated for the appointment, he did not envisage any interference in the discharge of his duties.

The House of Representatives yesterday literally became a house of commotion when age-long acrimony between a group of 11 lawmakers known as “Progressive-Minded Legislators” and those loyal to Speaker Dimeji Bankole, boiled over.

The crisis rocking the House of Representatives recorded a parliamentary disaster yesterday as it resorted to use of brutal force in dragging some of its members out of chamber for allegedly violating its rules.

FORMER Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Alhaji Bello Lafiaji, and his Personal Assistant, Usman Amali, were sentenced to a total of 16 years imprisonment, yesterday, after they were found guilty of conspiracy and abuse of office by a Lagos High Court.

NORTHERN leaders, said, yesterday, they had all it takes to win free and fair elections without special arrangements.

The forum of 150 top northern leaders who met in Abuja on Thursday night for the purpose of having a northern president in 2011 is now courting Major-General Muhammadu Buhari to be part of the group, having left him out of the maiden meeting.

SECURITY agents averted what could have resulted in a bloody clash at the Benin Airport Saturday, between members of the Chief Tony Anenih faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those of Dr Samuel Ogbemudia’s faction who stormed the airport to welcome President Goodluck Jonathan, who was on his way to Oghara, Delta State for the commissioning of the Delta State University Teaching Hospital and the headquarters of the Nigerian Navy Logistics Command.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday quizzed two aides of business mogul Chief Mike Adenuga over their involvement in the alleged 17.5million Euros Siemens scam that has led to the interrogations of over 14 prominent Nigerians in the last three weeks.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan said, yesterday, that some of the names he submitted to the Senate for screening and subsequent clearance as Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, would be withdrawn

THE National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, finally adopted the party’s former National Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Okwesilieze Nwodo as the new National Chairman.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives under the aegis of Progressives, who had, penultimate Wednesday, asked the Speaker, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, to resign or be disgraced through their presentation of incriminating evidence, made good their threat yesterday, as Bankole refused to throw in the towel .

STILL not satisfied with his deposition, the former Deji of Akureland, Prince Oluwadare Adesina fought back by dragging the Ondo State government before an Akure High Court challenging his deposition and prayed the court to declare the state government’s action as illegal.