Donald Duke warns of disaster if Nigeria’s trajectory is not changed in four years
The former governor explained that the country’s mounting economic hardship, insecurity and governance challenges informed his decision to seek the presidency under the PRP.
Presidency is snubbish of National Assembly —Senator Folarin, Senate Leader
HE is a far cry from the more flashy Leaders that preceded him. But that Senator Teslim Folarin is today fully in the saddle and deftly asserting himself as the leader of the Senate is not in doubt. As the fulcrum upon which the business of the Senate revolves, Senator Folarin has remarkably carried out his duties with a simplicity that betrays his relative freshness to the complexity of national politics.
PDP AND ITS WAYS: S/East and Presidency 2015
Again, the Peoples Democratic Party is playing yo-yo with the collective aspiration of a people. Penultimate week, the party declared that come 2015, the South East geo-political zone would produce the next president of Nigeria. But this declaration has been causing ripples in the polity. By Henry Umoru Abuja – The highest political position an […]
Yar‘Adua will not close the door against others, but will get a 2nd term —Senator Nwite
Senator Polycarp Nwite, senior special assistant to the president (political matters), is a chip from the old political block determined to instill some freshness into the political landscape. A member of the third republic Senate, Nwite would be remembered for his contributions to the pro-democracy struggle during the military era. Now a chieftain of the […]
Can National Assembly produce people’s constitution?
AFTER several dithering the much expected winding processes of constitution amendment have started fully by the National Assembly. During Plenary Tuesday, the House of Representatives followed the Senate footstep; when it began its second reading of the bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution. On its part, the Senate had penultimate week gone through its second reading and subsequently referred the exercise to its committee. The Senate Committee is expected to commence sitting any moment from now.
Niger Delta: Amnesty alone can’t end crisis — Ledum Mitee
He was charged along with Saro-Wiwa and the other eight Ogoni leaders who were hanged by the military junta headed by the late Gen. Sani Abacha in November 1995. Only Mitee among the whole lot was spared the hangman’s noose after the controversial verdict of the Justice Auta led Tribunal. Undaunted even after he survived the Abacha gulag, he forged ahead with the agitation of the Ogonis for environmental justice.
