David Mark Urges Youths to Embrace Sports and Entertainment

Former Senate President David Mark, has urged youths in the country to take to sports and the entertainment industry as means of promoting peace and unity across the country.

Mark who said this at the opening of the 2015 Mark d’Ball Basketball Competition in Otukpo, Benue, said athletes as well as those in the entertainment industry had done so well to unite the country.

Remi Tinubu Raises a Storm at Senate Plenary

Wife of APC leader Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Wednesday raised a storm at the senate assembly when she sat on the chair meant for Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president. 

According to The Cable, Tinubu was rebuked by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators, when she stood up to speak while standing in the deputy senate president’s corner. 

Two APC Senators Argue Angrily, Pull Each Other’s Clothes

The factions in the senate are not backing down just yet and on Tuesday, their disagreements blew into the open once again.

It started from the senate plenary when Sen. Kabir Marafa (Zamfara Central) raised a point of order. He demanded just as he had done last week, that the senate committees be reconstituted because the way they were composed violated the standing orders of the senate.

Senator Kabiru Marafa challenges Senate President's order

Sen. Kabiru Marafa (APC-Zamfara), walked out of the chamber over composition of standing committees of the Senate in Abuja on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Marafa interrupted plenary session during debate on adoption of 8th Senate Legislative Agenda.

This Nigerian E-Payment Company Is At The Center Of A N25 Billion Corruption Inquiry

It’s not everyday that a Nigerian tech company is in the national mainstream press, but one is currently getting all the attention, albeit, in an unflattering corner.

Remita, a payments platform owned by SystemSpecs, a Lagos-based Fintech company is presently at the center of what is building up to be a national inquiry into the Nigerian Treasury Single Account (TSA) which it manages along with the Central Bank of Nigeria and commercial banks in the country.

Nigerian senators shun Facebook training

Senators on Monday shunned the training organised ‎on the use of Facebook and other social media for effective communication on issues relating to Public Policy and Good Governance.

The training, which started by 12 noon, had only 25 participants in attendance. The Senate has 109 members.

The entertainment activism of Ben Bruce

Ben Murray Bruce is doing three things you can’t possibly ignore.

Bruce is baring his showman chest. He is pointing Nigerians to his vast reserve of the milk of human kindness. And he is performing a concern concert!