EFCC legal lead counsel, Mr. Ibrahim Isyaku (SAN), had called attention to the absence of the second accused, Mrs. Okoronkwo, and said the trial could not commence in her absence.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.