By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA—The Senate yesterday rejected moves to provide special welfare benefits for former Senate Presidents and Deputy Senate Presidents. The move which was upon the recommendation of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the immortalisation of late Senators was turned down by the Senators on the ground that it will be self serving […]

NO fewer than 400 ex-militants in Edo State yesterday took to the streets of Benin to protest alleged abandonment by the federal government.

SECURITY agents, yesterday, chased away from their offices members of Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOPADEC) who resumed duties, following a Benin High Court judgment which declared null and void their sack by the dissolution of the commission by Governor Adams Oshiomhole.

EX-MILITANT leader, John Togo, has said there was no truth in the allegation that militants blew up a pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Bayelsa State, a claim the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) also debunked yesterday.

The political and security situations in Nigeria could deteriorate rapidly in the near future, unless the country speedily returns to a clear constitutional track, the International Crisis Group, ICG, a global conflict prevention think-tank, has warned. In a commentary jointly authored by ICG President, Louise Arbour and its Nigerian board member, Ayo Obe, titled “Leaderless […]