ABUJA— THE immediate past Senate Minority Leader and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, now of All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom North West, yesterday vowed that the Senate would declare seats of Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, former Peoples Democratic PDP, national Chairman, Barnabas Gemade, Senators Rabiu Kwankwaso; Dino Melaye; Usman Nafada; Suleiman Hunkuyi and others who dumped APC for PDP vacant. 

List of APC Senators: 1. Adamu Aliero (Kebbi), 2. Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi), 3. Bala Ibn Na’Allah (Kebbi), 4. Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), 5. Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto), 6. Ahmed Yerima (Zamfara), 7. Kabir Marafa (Zamfara), 8. Tijjani Kaura(Zamfara), 9. Abu Ibrahim (Katsina), 10. Umar Kurfi (Katsina), 11. Kabir Gaya (Kano), 12.Barau Jibrin (Kano), 13. Abdulkadir Gumel (Jigawa), […]

OWERRI—SENATOR Ahmed Makarfi, presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said he had a horrible experience plying the roads in the South-East region. 

The battle for control of the Senate was last night set to take a more violent form as a campaign group for President Muhammadu Buhari, the Buhari Campaign Organisation yesterday vowed to physically take over the National Assembly complex if Senate President Bukola Saraki does not resign from office.

Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, calling former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a degenerate, liar, predator and sadist, has challenged him to swear whether he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he presided over the affairs of Nigeria.

A Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti on the board of Federal Character Commision (FCC), Mr Bunmi Ojo, also an ally of Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti, is dead.

Historian in the saddle, undetected by history. Trained by the Brits, full of revolutionary energy. It is strange we are yet to see Major Adewale Ademoyega as  the brain behind the January 15, 1966 coup d’etat.

It is often said that the route in politics is littered with broken relationships and strange bedfellows. This is playing itself out in Nigeria currently. With 2019 drawing closer, defections from one political party to the other has hit the political class. Nigerian politicians are moving camps, divorcing and marrying new political suitors and erecting new shades to ply their political trade.

THE anti-corruption war being waged by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration got a big boost on Tuesday after the removal from office of the former Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura. Already, the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has settled the rift between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, and the Department of State Services ,DSS, which had, under Daura, stood against Ibrahim Magu and his agency from investigating or arresting top security chiefs, suspected to have been involved in large scale cash movements.

It is not uncommon to find the elderly persons being paraded for various crimes at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja. But in this case, Mrs Gladys Osaigbovo-Omon (60), was not a guest at the command over any criminal matter.

Until late last year, when they finally went their separate ways, Peter and Paul Okoye, popularly known as P-Square used to be the favourite of many lovers of contemporary Nigerian music. But the same cannot be said of the twins today no matter how hard they try to make their fans believe that all is well with them.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has replied the All Progressives Congress, APC, party Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, who had said that he (Saraki) would not only be impeached but would also be stopped from returning to the Senate after the 2019 elections.

The apex Igbo cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has described as spurious, mendacious and the height of blackmail for the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra , IPOB, to outline what it called the preconditions for peace between it and Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

SENATE President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has lampooned the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying that he cannot descend into the gutter with those he described as characters in the party.

The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Walid Jibril has said that the party was happy “donating ” the former senate minority leader, Godswill Akpabio to the All Progressive Congress.