The recurring problem of presiding officers of the National Assembly being in conflict with governors of their home states is being played out in the persisting faceoff between Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives and Governor Mohammed Abubakar. The problem was first brought to national attention after three local government chairmen from the speaker’s constituency were suspended after paying a courtesy call on the speaker in Abuja.

KANO— A crack team of policemen from Zone 1 Command, Kano, yesterday arrested and detained former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, over perceived inciting speech he made recently at a political gathering

Former External Affairs Minister and Deputy Chairman 2014 National Conference Professor A. Bolaji Akinyemi has called on the Osinbajo Panel not to make public their findings on National Intelligence Agency (NIA)money discovered in Ikoyi

OUTRAGE spread in some parts of the country, yesterday, following revelations of lopsided recruitment into the Department of State Service, DSS reflecting what many Nigerians described as a continuing effort by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to stamp a northern character on all strands of the federal bureaucracy.

The story is told of how in the heat of the Obasanjo – Atiku feud in 2007 that the Gombe State government pulled down the roof of the Presidential Lodge in Gombe upon news that Atiku was coming to the state to campaign