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Tyranny of the gavel by Patrick Obahiagbon

Tyranny of the gavel by Patrick Obahiagbon

Having enjoyed the privilege of spending   eight years in the Edo State House of Assembly during which I was the leader of the house for some eon; and, thereafter, a member of the House of Representatives in Abuja for four years, I can asseverate, without being accused of any streak of immodesty, that I am sufficiently versed and knowledgeably vast in the mechanism of the legislature as a third arm of the trinity of government both at the state and federal levels.

‘We prefer to die in Nigeria’

‘We prefer to die in Nigeria’

Many months after the Nigerian Government directed its embassy in Riyadh to intervene and stop further execution of Nigerians on death row over suspected drug offences, the officials have not succeeded, leading to the killing of no fewer than six persons within six months.

Leadership, the future of Nigeria by Chief Emeka Anyaoku

Leadership, the future of Nigeria by Chief Emeka Anyaoku

My first words must be about the man in whose memory this occasion has been organized, the late statesman Senator Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya. It is now ten years since he left us to join his God and ancestors. I thank the Planning Committee of this event for the honour of the invitation to be the Guest Speaker.

Interventions to unlock Apapa traffic jam: Too little, too late?

Interventions to unlock Apapa traffic jam: Too little, too late?

MOTORISTS plying the Mile Two to Tin Can Island end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway have since last week enjoyed some relative respite from the traffic jam that has locked down the area for several weeks, thanks to the intervention of the Nigerian Navy and other security agencies.