Sources said that the Office of the Head of Service and Civil Service Commission had, on several occasions, raised concerns over the upsurge of contract staff

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.

Umueri President General, Pius Okonkwo, in an interview, told Sunday Vanguard that his community was not the aggressor in the communal crisis

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.

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.