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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed threats by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the new leaders of the National Assembly as empty boasts aimed to cover its naivety, inexperience and unpreparedness for governance. The PDP also admonished the APC to shed its arrogance, eat the humble pie and get more organized for governance […]

…gives birth to new subsidiary ‘NASCON Allied Industries’ With a dividend of N1.32 billion, culminating to 50 kobo per share due to every investor of the company for the 2014 financial year, shareholders of National Salt Company of Nigeria (NASCON), a subsidiary of Dangote Group, yesterday commended the company on the huge investment  made in […]

It is fairly axiomatic that in any democracy, the media plays an indispensable role in creating, moulding and reflecting public opinion. Edmund Burke, the Irish-born philosopher and politician was said to have referred to the media as the Fourth Estate of the Realm in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press […]

The crisis of confidence in the All Progressives Congress (APC) resulting from the emergence of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, seem to be doing more damage to the party with Lai Mohammed, the party’s National Publicity, giving a hint that Saraki could be […]

The emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the nation’s Senate President has pointed glooming and dooming parts for the vanquished nation. By their ascendant – Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and David Mark – Nigerians’ conscious hope and crave to extricate themselves from the grip of legislative banditry, political corruption and virtual criminality has been dashed. […]

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the kidnapping of a Catholic Priest, Father Emmanuel Akingbade in Ido-Ekiti as a challenge to the state. However he  gave assurance that efforts were on to get him freed. Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Idowu Adelusi said the governor, in a broadcast noted that plans were underway to […]

In what was interpreted by many as registering  her displeasure with the new Senate president, Bukola Saraki on Wednesday, Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos Central refused to shake hands with Saraki, after showing him her returning certificate as demanded by protocol. The modus operandi demands that newly sworn-in senators, after taking their oaths, to present a copy […]

Today is indeed a sad day for leaders of All Peoples Congress (APC) whose attempt to muscle their cronies into leadership of the National Assembly failed woefully. Consequently the party has rejected the newly elected leadership of the National Assembly, saying it will use all constitutional and legal process to resolve the leadership tussle in […]

If Nigerians ever thought that nobility found its way into the nation’s high offices with the conduct of the last general elections, the unfolding drama in the National Assembly, has banished that thought. If Nigerians ever hoped that high offices would ennoble their occupants, the disgraceful conduct of some APC lawmakers who conspired to torpedo […]

New Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday thanked his colleagues for electing him as the President of the eighth Senate saying their decision adds to democracy. He said this in his maiden speech after he was sworn-in as the Senate President even though the All Progressives Party (APC), through which he contested rejected the outcome […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery the conduct of Tuesday’s inauguration of the National Assembly that led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively. The party said Saraki […]

The drama that engulfed the selection of the leadership of the National Assembly on Tuesday took a new twist as 57 out of the 108 inaugurated the 8th National Assembly with the reading of the proclamation letter from President Muhammadu Buhari by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasua. Consequently, the 57 Senators […]