The 8th Senate resumed in Abuja on Tuesday with 81 senators  passing a vote of confidence in Senator Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and leadership of the Senate during the plenary. The vote of confidence followed a motion moved by Senator Sam Anyanwu (Imo East) at the resumption of the Senate from four weeks’ recess and supported by Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West). The motion on the floor of the assembly amidst tight security was in obvious response to the investigations of Ekweremadu and the National Assembly bureaucracy over the allegations of forgery of Senate Standing Orders as well as recent moves by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate Toyin, the wife of the Senate President. “Considering the sustained interference in the internal affairs of the senate by detractors and media propaganda against the senate and senators by selfish politicians, I therefore move to call on the senate...

There was pulpable panic last Friday at a prayer ground in Abuja as residents feared for the life of President Muhammadu Buhari  following his narrow escape from a mob action after prayers to mark the end of Muslims traditional 30days fasting, Buhari had during and immediately after the prayers been bombarded by the youths who almost overwhelmed the security, but he had to hold tight to his gown to get to his car. But responding to the incident when a delegation of the Muslim community in the Federal Capital territory, FCT paid him Eid-el Fitri homage at the villa , the President said his safety and security was in the hand of God and not mere mortals. He told his guests that during the encounter he was advised to enter the car from the ADC side and he refused adding that he went across trying to hold his hand to the wild youths who wanted to see him. “On an occasion like this, it shows that after what happened to President Ronald Reagan of the USA, it is only God almight...