Monday, May 20th, 2013
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk There is a proverb in my micro African community that the witch cried yesterday and the baby dies today; who does not know that it was the witch that killed the baby? In other...
Monday, May 13th, 2013
Sola Shittu ,0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk Some of our actions in this country, I mean government actions, are sometimes belated and that is why many neighbouring countries, especially the francophone, trample on us without courtesy. That Nigeria is not the financial hub...
Monday, May 6th, 2013
Sola Shittu ,0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk Last week the Senate considered the report of the Senate Committee on Public Account, Chaired by Senator Hammed Lawan, on three Special Fund Accounts managed by the Federal government but unregulated by anyone. The three special...
Monday, April 29th, 2013
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk The Senate is a very interesting institution to study, especially if you take a careful look at the characters that make up the seventh Senate. Their mood determines a lot on the success of any...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Senator Ita Solomon Enang is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, also known as the engine room of the Senate. Enang is not new on the Job; he was an old hand, having held sway for eight years in the House...
Monday, April 1st, 2013
It was not the first time that a meeting would take place between Senators and security chiefs on the security situation in the country. Each time such a meeting was held behind closed doors, the senators always came out satisfied with the briefings or explanations...
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk Last Wednesday a bill empowering the National Assembly to summon the President to give account of his stewardship through a State of the Nation Address to the National Assembly was passed by the senate. The...
Monday, March 11th, 2013
Sola Shittu, 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk When the Senate declared the whole of plenary days last week to the debate on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), I knew Senators were in for serious business. For months, the PIB has remained an albatross;...
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Sola Shittu, 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk I am often surprise on many occasions when the Nigerian media scream with their banner headlines “NASS, Presidency at loggerheads or Executive, Legislature on war path”. I think Nigerians especially really need to study the American...
Monday, February 25th, 2013
After nearly six decades of its existence, there is a pervasive feeling that India’s democracy is in crisis. But what is the nature of this threat? Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in a beautifuly crafted essay reminds us what a bold experiment bringing democracy to a largely...
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please)e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk The Gods Are Not To Blame is a play by Ola Rotimi. An adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex, the story centers on Odewale, who is lured into a false sense of security, only...
Monday, February 11th, 2013
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk The air now in the Senate is dominated by the merger spirit and it affects almost all the opposition senators. I said ‘almost’ because some still have their reservations for the merger, even though many...
Monday, December 24th, 2012
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk Something strange happened to the passage of the 2013 Fiscal Act although not so strange in the real sense of it because it was just in compliance with the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2007....
Monday, December 17th, 2012
Sola Shittu, 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk After the ignoble demolition of Maroko by the military junta of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in the 80s there was nothing similar to that until the return of former President Olusegun Obasanjo when the then...
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Sola Shittu , 0803 850 2103 (Text only please) e: solasitu@yahoo.co.uk At the budget defence of many Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) throughout last week, the main comment of the Directors-General and even the ministers was the condemnation of the idea of envelope for the...
