By Emma Aziken Abuja – AFTER months of bitter  proxy warfare in the top echelon of the National Assembly bureaucracy, the clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Nasir Arab, has given notice of his retirement from the public service. The notice, circulated in the form of the constitution of a handover committee last Thursday, has […]

By Jide Ajani FORMER external affairs minister and presidential aspirant, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has hailed the choice of the American president, Barrack Obama, as this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Akinyemi made it clear that there is no substitute for leadership by inspiration, an attribute which he said, must have been responsible for […]

By EMEKA MAMAH KADUNA- FORMER chief justice of the federation and chairman, Electoral Reform Committee (ERC), Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais, has declared that President Umar Yar’Adua’s Bill for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution now before the National Assembly is at variance with the recommendations of his committee and the White Paper issued by the […]

By Sam Oyadongha Yenagoa – WITH the disarmed former  militants settling down to life outside the tough terrain of the creeks that had served as their abode for years now, some of them are beginning to tell the stories  of their struggle. Ebiowei  James, who trained as a mariner, is one such former militants. He […]

By AbdulSalam Muhammad KANO -Amidst speculations of an impending plan by the federal Government to hike prices of petroleum products, an Islamic Cleric in Kano, Sheik Aminu Adam has cautioned President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to shelve the idea in line with his divine covenant with the citizen. Sheik Aminu Adam, Deputy chief Imam of Al […]