It has been good so far. We make sure that all our electioneering promises are fulfilled. We thank God that he has been on our side. We have enjoyed relative peace. What we are doing is to let the people of Oyo State know that they have a government which is different from what they used to have in the past. If I cannot make a difference, I should not be on this seat because I know what used to happen in the past. I don’t want to do it the same way they were done.

At a stage, the crisis in PDP in Anambra State was thought to have been resolved following the recognition of the Uchenna Emodi leadership by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. However, a new twist has emerged. A former state secretary of the party and one of the chairmanship aspirants, Chief Kenneth Emeakayi […]

Dr. Muhammadu Jabbi Kilgori is the Sokoto State commissioner for health. In this interview, he speaks on various health issues and the contribution of the state government in the area of improving health standards of the people. Excerpts: By Abdulah el-Kurebe LET us do a rundown of the achievements of the Health Ministry in comparison […]

Honourable Tim Owhefere is the Chief Whip of the Delta State House of Assembly representing the Isoko North constituency. Owhefere who is also a knight of St. Christopher bared his mind on the recent passage of a bill in the house that sentences kidnappers to death if found guilty and the ten years old democracy […]

THE turnout at the beginning of the three-day public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) last Monday was unprecedented in the ten year history of the present National Assembly. It was perhaps reflective of the serious dominance of oil in the nation’s economy that the Senate hearing was thronged by virtually all stakeholders to the Nigerian project.

At a Stakeholders’ Forum, July 20, organized by the Delta State Government in Asaba to sensitize the people on the National Gas Master Plan, the participants and representatives of host communities were agitated by the issue of ownership and what the host communities and indigenes stand to gain by allowing the Federal Government and multinational companies to exploit gas in the state.

I think the bill is a little bit insensitive to the yearnings of the people of the Niger Delta and the oil producing communities. One important instance of this is that all over the world, royalty is an amount paid to the owners of the land.

Former governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who was represented at the meeting by an aide, Professor Tunde Samuel, said that the ultimatum, apart “from being totally unwarranted and an abuse of the constitution, in essence seeks to punish the people of Lagos State for being democratic.”

THE whole nation must be on tenterhooks, wondering what the Federal Government will cause to happen in Lagos today as the ultimatum it handed the state government expired last night.

ALHAJI Abubakar Tsav, a retired Lagos State Commissioner of Police, renown social critic and anti-corruption crusader in this interview with Vanguard in Makurdi, spoke on Yar’ Adua’s administration, Obasanjo’s regime, EFCC,amnesty, rotational presidency and other national issues. Excerpts:

Obahiagbon, had in a motion appealed to the House to call on the Federal Government to immortalise the late politician who died on the July 7, 1998 in Federal Government’s custody.

The National Assembly has a self cleansing mechanism and there are plenty of people with such accusations and in any case it is just mere accusation until proven in the court nobody can do anything about it and you cannot blame the president for that.

Until few days ago, Prince Kassim Afegbua, the Acting National Chairman of National Democratic Party, NDP, was the Chief Press     Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole.

BELIEVE it or not, Henry Okah has become a force to be reckoned with in the Niger-Delta struggle. The Federal Government had calculated his being kept in the coolers would kill the spirit of the struggle, but, for the nearly two years he was in detention, militants in the Niger-Delta region continued their devastation of oil facilities with more deadly brutality

Although political office holders are supposed to take the oath of allegiance and oath of office before assuming office, recent shocking disclosures of secret oaths of loyalty taken by members of the Ogun State House of Assembly has once again placed the controversial issue on the front burner of public discourse. Nigerians from different walks of life have been reacting to the phenomenon.