In law, it is said that he who asserts, proves, but this appears not the case in the allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against three members of the House of Representatives during their exchange programme in Cleveland, Ohio, the United States of America. It was expected that the former United States of America Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, who had, in his letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, alleged that one of the ten members of the House who attended the programme grabbed a hotel house keeper while two others solicited the services of car park attendants to hook them up with prostitutes, should make available the evidence. The evidence took flight and everything appeared to be just beer parlour gossip even though the allegations had caused the lawmakers their visas to the US.

If there is anything that is not lacking in the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, it is drama.

LAGOS, which the state government considers as a work in progress mega-city, is not new to buildings collapse having recorded several tragedies in that regard in the past few years. Indeed Lagos has once again been in the news since Tuesday following the collapse of a five-storey building in the Lekki area of the state that claimed over 30 lives.

FOR 29 years after the 30-month Nigeria-Biafra war that ended in January 1970, after claiming about three million lives, nobody pushed for or agitated for the resurrection of the defunct Biafran Republic.

Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, Carlos Sosa, in this interview, speaks on the lessons Nigeria, 55 years after independence, has to learn from his country’s resistance of the United States for 54 years