.......... as constituents lament the use of miscreants to tarnish the image of elected office holders 24/10/2021 The people of Bende LGA in Abia State have continued to witness a negative trend in inter political party relationships. Elections have come and gone since 2019 and winners have emerged while the losers have gone to court and lost further. In other sane societies/ constituencies, the losers have embraced their fate and moved on with their lives. The case of Bende federal constituency remains different, as a certain self acclaimed philanthropist has refused to accept his fate after losing at the polls, losing in the court and losing further after sponsoring an aggrieved APC member to drag the spokesman of the house of representatives in the national assembly to court on some frivolous allegations which could not hold water in court. While other constituencies are consolidating on the gains of this current administration and working in synergy with their representativ

  THE NORTH IS PREPARING FOR RESTRUCTURING Give it to the North, they get what they want at every turn while the South do the talking. Most radical ideas that had shaped Nigeria’s political landscape often originated from the South only to be perfected to advantage by the North. For instance, while the South championed the struggle for independence, the North acted like she wasn’t ready and would rather remain under British domination. But from when the British lowered the Union Jack, it was the North that had dominated the South and still do. Another is the idea of military coup. It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination. Almost all successful coups in Nigeria were hatched and executed by Northern officers from 1966 to date. Again, Nigeria started well on federalism until some group of Southerners introduce unitary government. The North shouted ‘Araba’ th

  The House of Representatives has faulted the N134 billion allocated to the National Assembly in the 2022 Appropriation bill. While contributing to a debate at parliament on Thursday, Hon  Benjamin Kalu  spokesman of the lower legislative chamber of the National Assembly, described the budget as too small. He said despite the increase in the amount of statutory transfers in the 2022 budget, the percentage of transfer to the National Assembly did not reflect the increase. He said:   “This concerns the House. It concerns the House because, the statutory transfer as we have mentioned, there is an increase from N484.49 billion to N768.28 billion and that is a reflection of 58.7 percent increase; an increase of about N283.79 billion. Do you know that this increase does not reflect in the amount that comes to the National Assembly?” Earlier, the House members had expressed fears the Economy could Collapse as a result of the high Debt Servicing rate .   “But remember, when we had a budget wi