Since the enthronement of the Fourth Republic, the National Assembly and the legislative arm of government have been enmeshed in one crisis or another.

Corruption has steadily grown over the years, into a hydra-headed monster on a fiery rampage, now holding our nation hostage.

It all started with the New Year day announcement of subsidy withdrawal by the Federal Government and the resultant crises that shook the oil and gas industry and the entire country.

In my own view, corruption scandals in Nigeria have reached an alarming proportion.A national daily recently reported how Nigeria has become a butt of practical jokes among diplomats from US and G-7 countries at a conference in New Orleans.

When the story was broken that the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee which investigated the fuel subsidy management, Mr. Farouk Lawan collected bribes in US dollars with $620,000 paid to him by oil magnate, Femi Otedola as part payment of the $3 million agreed on by both parties, the nation was shocked.

THE International Labour Organization, ILO, defines “Minimum wage as a wage which provides a floor to the wage structure in order to protect workers at the bottom of the wage distribution.” The ILO further points out that minimum wages are a nearly universal policy instrument that applies in more than 90 percent of International Labour Organization member states, including Nigeria.

IN the beginning: The story of Nigeria’s Nollywood is like Ben Okri’s “river” in his novel, The Famished Road, “which becomes a road and branches out to the world.”

This is the chronology of a now inconclusive sting operation conducted by the Department of State Service, otherwise referred to as the SSS, involving House of Representatives member and Chairman, Committee on Subsidy Management, Lawan Farouk, and oil and gas magnate, Femi Otedola. The complicity of both men in this latest scam signposts a deeper mentality of dishonourable conduct that is pervasive in Nigeria.

Nigerians, especially prominent citizens, now collapse and die mainly due to their ignorance of preventable diseases.

As tears from victims’ families of the DANA air crash continue to flood property and human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu listed conditions under which they and residents as well as landlords of the crash site will be adequately compensated. Excerpt: