Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin was yesterday interrogated for hours at the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele and detained, in connection with the last Thursday’s killing of the factional leader of the Oyo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo). The embattled Senate leader breezed into […]
Now, it is a whistle blow going by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) timetable which has made it mandatory for parties to ensure that their primaries are concluded at least by the second week of January, 2011. And with that, it has become a race against time for almost all the parties and the […]
The dust thrown up by last Thursday’s gruesome murder of the factional leader of the Oyo State chapter of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo ) is yet to settle, as the Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin at the weekend asked the Inspector General of Police, Mr Afiz Ringin […]
“ON Wednesday, at the commencement of the ward congress, I learnt Eleweomo and his people in about 20 buses had stormed my ward 5, Idi Ose area of the local government. They were armed with guns, and on getting there, I inquired from supporters what the business of Eleweomo was. Shortly after, he (Eleweomo) went […]
IN a blaze of promises of abundance, security and improved healthcare, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other leaders yesterday ushered Nigerians into the New Year. In his New Year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration would work even harder in the coming months to ensure that ordinary Nigerians begin to feel […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, yesterday revealed that Nigeria lost between $400 billion and $436 billion to corruption within its first 40 years as a nation. Bankole gave this at the national youth summit held yesterday at the International Conference Centre, with the title: “Towards Effective Mobilisation of Nigerian Youth for […]
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday replied Senate President, David Mark, over the latter’s alleged involvement in a plot to destabilise the state. Mark had in a statement on Tuesday dismissed Aregbesola’s allegations that Vice-President Namadi Sambo and the Senate president were involved in a plot to raise N1bn for the purpose of […]
Given the momentum of classic drama that characterize most events in Nigeria this year, there will be no shortage of stories that will shape the outgoing year. Many of the stories are, indeed, as different and remarkable as the individuals themselves, their pain behind their fame, the scent behind their successes and failings. It is […]
SINce the advent of democracy in 1999, some National Assembly members have continued to win elections to represent their constituencies, either at the Senate or at the House of Representatives. At the last count, almost a dozen of these federal lawmakers still bestride their districts like colossus. From the Senate President, David Bonaventure Mark, to […]
The recent attempt by federal lawmakers to gatecrash themselves National Executive Committee (NEC) of political parties has exposed the long-running cold war between the National Assembly and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum. Kunle Akogun reports A subtle but very intense struggle for the control of the soul of the nation’s polity is currently raging between two […]
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