By Richard Ihediwa

The National Assembly is never lacking in controversy. It is never lacking in questions to answer about its credibility. Last week, the federal legislature found itself trying to defend its integrity on the face of damaging claims by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the National Assembly is corrupt.

The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in a week lost three of its members of the House of Representatives to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). In this report, Mohammed Isa looks at the trend that may likely make the main opposition party in the lower chamber a history.

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The presidency appears to have drawn lessons from the failure of the past governments to adequately address what looks like intractable problems of power supply and generation in this country.  This, it is doing  with a lot of cautions.

On July 29, the Senate Committee on Communications presented the report of its screening of nominees to the governing board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). But events spiralled out of control and the chairman of the committee, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu and other senators in the committee were swept away in a gale of controversy that trailed the screening exercise. Henry Omunu in this piece traces Anyanwu’s fall from grace to disgrace.

The prolong medical absence of late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua and his failure to hand over before his death on May 5, 2010 to his then deputy, Goodluck Jonathan had plunged the nation into a political crisis. However, with the amendment of section 145 of the Constitution, the absence of a president or a governor will no longer be an issue. Mohammed Isa examines the timely amendment and the lawmaker behind it.