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30/8/2017 The leadership of Network of Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria-NOCSON sagaciously cum pertinaciously led by Abraham Oviawe Esq. yesterday, courtesy the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria-ERA with a view to interact and find ways to collaborate more effectively. Comrade Austin Osakue set the ball rolling accordingly, Barr. Abraham Oviawe intellectually stepped in and passed it on to the Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth 'Dr. Uyi Ojo' whose perspicacious adumbration gave birth to responses from the left and right wing of other Comrades who were in attendance. He (Dr. Uyi Ojo) showered encomium on NOCSON for the unrelenting selfless service and gave a brief history of the foundation of Environmental Rights Action.

I am happy to address you all today on my return from medical treatment in the United Kingdom. It is by the grace of Almighty Allah that I am here with you. I want to begin by thanking every Nigerian who prayed for my quick recovery. I also wish to thank those who lost patience with me. I understand your feeling. We have so much work to do in this country that every minute lost is a disservice to our people. My special thanks goes to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. He held the fort in my absence. I’m very pleased with his performance despite the difficulties our political structure imposed on him. He did the job of leading this nation so well that I have a renewed confidence in our leaders of tomorrow. I also thank the National Assembly, my ministers, the members of the judiciary, our security forces and civil servants across this nation who go to work everyday and look up at the picture of their leader who had been absent for long and still dedicate themselves to th...

This would be a good case to test whether the affairs of any government can be arbitrarily managed. Ativie's response to the letter of the clerk of the House is a slap on our State and common wealth. How can a person who spent barely  3 months in office as Speaker now claim to have been given the vehicular paraphernalia of office  as a personal gift. The office of the Speaker is institutional. Such facilities belong to the office and cannot be converted by an individual, not even with the connivance of the Executive arm of government. There is a known methodology for valuing such cars in the event that the occupant gets the approval of government to acquire same. Was the valuation done? How much did it come to? Did Ativie  pay for the said vehicles?  If the answers to these questions are in the negative, then she is certainly enmeshed in illegality and must be made to account for this crass abuse of office. I have a feeling that she did not follow due process. If she...

The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Oba Ewuare II, has in strong terms condemned the recent fracas at the Edo State House of Assembly during their change of leadership on Monday. He described the incident as a display of “political hooliganism and barbarism.’’ Oba Ewuare reacted via a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Desmond Agbama, on Wednesday. He expressed sadness at the violence that preceded impeachment of former Speaker, Dr. Justin Okonoboh. The House elected the member representing Akoko Edo I constituency, Mr. Kabiru Adjoto, as the new Speaker. 19 members of the House were said to have signed the impeachment notice. The Benin monarch stated that while he was not against a leadership change in the legislature, the “frequent violent changes is capable of negating the interest of the people, which ought to be paramount to the lawmakers at all times”. The Oba, who said that he had watched with great disappointment the throwing of chairs and u...