One of the very easy tactics that a government adopts when it sees that it is unpopular with the publics that it governs is to create a diversion, fly a kite or invent a subject of controversy to keep the … Read the rest
Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi is insisting that projects worth N3.7 trillion in the 2024 Appropriation Act are not traceable.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, Senator Abdul Ningi, who is the Chairman of Northern Senators’ Forum, reiterated … Read the rest
Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) is a ranking member of Nigeria’s National Assembly. He has been a member of that Assembly since the return to democratic rule in 1999, first as a member of the House of Representatives
Sometime last month, Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, mildly shocked us when he declared, rather authoritatively, that 70-80 per cent of his fellow politicians are lunatics, as in raving mad. Being … Read the rest
If Fela Anikulapo Kuti had lived till now he would have had to revise his song titled “water no get enemy.” That liberation musician was putting the matter as he saw it. If you go to the stream you can … Read the rest
Femi Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, lately responded to the critics who have rightfully described the 9th assembly as mere a rubber stamp of the executive arm of the government. Gbajabiamila launched into his self-justification at an event … Read the rest
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has urged the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the 2018 Electoral Act.
Agbakoba, in a letter to the legislators, said Buhari’s reason for … Read the rest