Senator Gbenga Bareehu Ashafa is a first time Senator in the SeventhNational Assembly, representing the Lagos East Senatorial District, on the banner of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. In this interview, Ashafa, who is the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development spoke on the viability of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the proposed party that some leading opposition parties merged into, his experience in the Senate and controversies trailing reported damages to underwater structures of the Third Mainland Bridge.

Governor Babangida Aliyu’s recent revelation that President Goodluck Jonathan signed an agreement with PDP and state governors to serve only a single 4-year term was like opening pandora’s box – now creating unexpected confusion and problems over the incumbent’s eligibility to run in 2015 for second term.

FOR the first time since the 1999 presidential elections, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may be given a good fight at the polls if leaders of the All Progressive Congress, APC did their home work.

IN our previous analysis, we have shown why France went to war after Al -Qaeda in Mauritania and Mali, especially, to stop the international jihad agenda and the criminality associated with this agenda. that was being visited on its citizens in its former colony.

THE lack of distinction between for-profit and not-for-profit educational institutions in the country is almost certainly linked to the fact that office holders who ought to have championed making the distinction (including imposition of tax on the for-profit institutions) are guilty of benefitting from this cheating, another form of corruption. It needs to be corrected without further delay.