Senators don’t earn bigger salaries than ministers and judges –Senate’s spokesman Abaribe

 

By Linus Obogo, Assistant Editor

 

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is the Senate Committee Chairman on Information. He was also the deputy to former Governor Orji Uzo Kalu in Abia State from 1999 to 2002. He had a frosty working relationship with Kalu and survived three impeachment attempts. In 2007, he was elected the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District. He was a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant for Abia State in 2011. In this interview with Assistant Editor, LINUS OBOGO, Abaribe relives his trying times as deputy governor, saying that he was naïve at the time. He also speaks about the Nigerian project, insisting that the Igbo nation has not been fairly treated in the national scheme of things. Excerpts:

Jonathan has been ambushed by non-politicians – Mantu

By Linus Obogo, Assistant Editor

 

Senator Nasiru Ibrahim Mantu was Deputy Senate President from 2003 to 2007. He was Director-General, defunct National Republican Convention Presidential Campaign, 1993; National Chairman of the defunct Peoples Democratic Alliance and National Publicity Secretary, defunct United Nigerian Congress Party, UNCP. He was also Chairman, National Assembly Committee on Constitution Review. Senator Mantu, in this interview with Assistant Editor, LINUS OBOGO, went down memory lane on his alleged role in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s botched third term project and expressed his views on President Goodluck Jonathan, among other issues. Excerpts:

How Femi Fani Kayode’s Wife and Daughters Slept with Atiku, Obasanjo, Shama And Others Under Femi’s Nose – By Shama Maliga

This article was written by one Mr. Shama Maliga and culled  from 247UREPORTS

Femi has finally displayed his wealth of Idio-stupidity…hence his immoral house hood chapter is hereby opened.

His Daughter

1. I have been in dispute with Femi since September 2011 over personal issues.
2. I worked with ObJ between, 2004 to 2007 (Second term) as private in house Agent before leaving to back to Canada in late 2007.
3. I have known Femi since 2002; we first met during an evening Private meeting, on a Sunday at Otta (OBJ’s Parlor).
4. Femi never hide his sexual taste on women (both single and Married. And in many occasions with OBJ, OBJ stylishly joke over Femi’s unending libido on women who rush for assistance, favor or help in Abuja.
5. OBJ calls him “Woman Rapper” and usually warn him to be careful.
6. Many of us including his Aides and OBJ’s Aides knew that Femi is usually on drugs.

I know my bounds at home as a soldier’s wife –Mrs. Olufunke Adekoya (SAN)

Mrs. Olufunke Adekoya is head, Dispute Resolution Practice Group at AELEX, a firm of Legal Practitioners and Arbitrators. she was appointed Notary Public in 1986 and elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in 2001 (only the 5th woman to be so elevated).

She has been a member of the Body of Benchers since 1999 and elevated to Life Bencher in March 2007.

In the field of arbitration, Mrs. Adekoya represents both local and transnational parties as counsel in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings within Nigeria and abroad and has acted in numerous disputes as either- party appointed Arbitrator, Sole Arbitrator and Presiding Arbitrator. She is a member of the LCIA African Users Council and the Nigeria’s ICC National Committee; and is listed on the ICDR Energy Arbitrators List, the panel of neutrals of the Lagos Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

In this interview with Assistant Editor, LINUS OBOGO, the wife of Air Vice Marshall Oluwole Adekoya (rtd), spoke on the rise of women on the Bench, corruption in the judiciary, as well as the balance between her role as a lawyer and wife to a soldier. Excerpts:

James Eze's Ode to a fallen pal, Douglas Ude

As I stretch my mind across the years that I have known Douglas Ude, a central image dominates the universe of my thoughts – the image of a shooting star, blazing across the evening sky, releasing a burst of glorious sparkles that fade into the distance after their job of lighting up the horizon is done. The remains of the Big Doug will be interred tomorrow, July 26, 2013, in his home town of Mgbowo in Augwu, Enugu State. Farewell Dude!

PDP crisis is exaggerated -Senate Majority Leader Ndoma-Egba

Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) is the Senate Majority Leader and a three-term Senator representing Cross River State Central Senatorial Zone in the upper chamber. Senator Ndoma-Egba was at various times a member of Senate Committees on Upstream Petroleum Resources, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Information and Media, as well as Deputy Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. In this interview with Assistant Editor, LINUS OBOGO, in his office, he spoke on state creation, crisis in the PDP, zero allocation to SEC saga and sundry issues. Excerpts:

It’s sad to see Port-Harcourt turned into war theatre –Ex-SSS boss AK Horsfall

Chief Albert Korubo Horsfall is a former Nigerian security chief and prominent Ijaw leader. The pioneer member of the National Security Organisation (NSO) was also the first Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the fifth Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS) and the pioneer Chairman of the Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) now known as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

In this interview with Assistant Editor, LINUS OBOGO, Chief Horsfall, currently the Chairman of the Rivers State Social Rehabilitation Committee, charged with the rehabilitation of ex-militants from Rivers State, laments the insecurity that has been foisted on the state and the nation at large by the Boko Haram sect and the political crisis in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).       
As former head of an arm of the nation’s security services, how would you assess the state of the nation in terms of politics and security?