Worried by the bad state of the federal civil service, the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, recently, unveiled four cardinal objectives launched by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to give a new lease of life to the service it is structured to be goal-oriented by implementing the policies of government.

After the 2015 elections, the then Chairman, Alhaji Mu’azu, left the party, and that created a big vacuum. Of,course, once you have been in power for so long you hit a bump, if you are not prepared, you will go into a state shock. We were in that state of shock and we needed somebody to manage the party and manage the fallout. In our Constitution, if there is any vacancy in any of the national offices, we have to go back to the zone that produced that Chairman to produce someone to act until that tenure expires.

The imbroglio between the Presidency and the Senate got a head last week when the Red Chambre suspended for two weeks the consideration of the list of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) sent to it by the executive arm of government.

Fred Odemwingie Okhomina is among the first generation of psychiatric doctors in Nigeria. Okhomina went into psychiatry after his mentor, Dr Adeoye Lambo, advised him to go into it. In this interview, Okhomina, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, speaks on why he was influenced by his mentor to study that branch of medicine, corruption in Nigeria and the need to subject political office holders to psychiatric test.

The retention of Magu in the face of his rejection by the highest lawmaking body in the country, to many, passed for an illegality and is as well seen to be fuelling the frosty relationship between the legislature and the executive