From the monthly archives: October 2009

Success Doesn’t Just Happen

On October 29, 2009 · In Sports

IT is only in Nigeria that we expect success to happen because we have prayed, as if we are the only people who pray. Rather we could be about the only people who have commercialised praying. Prayers are for a fee, and when they do not produce victories we expect from a football game, for instance, it is adduced that the money paid was not enough to interest the Almighty, on whose behalf the prophet was paid.

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I’m like a menu, you can look but can’t afford me – Anna Kournikova

On October 29, 2009 · In Sports

IT is pretty difficult to objectively decide who the most beautiful women in sports are. It has become a case of the more you look, the less you see as the damsels dazzle in their chosen fields.

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NDM ‘ll weaken the opposition, says Balarabe Musa

On October 29, 2009 · In Politics

Is CNPP involved in the formation of the National Democratic Movement ( NDM) ?
The formation of National Democratic Initiative ( NDI) is an unfortunate development within the ranks of those who are trying to defeat the PDP in the 2011 general election and establish the foundation of a true democratic development for Nigeria.

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Top 10 Worst Sporting Cheats

On October 29, 2009 · In Sports

They say two heads are better than one but not if you are clueless marathon brothers Sergio and Fika Motsoeneng.
The nearly identical pair from South Africa did believe two sets of legs would be better than one as they hatched a plot to win their country’s gruelling 90_kilometre Comrades marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on the coast in 1999.

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Sunborn: A yatch hotel floating on controversy

On October 29, 2009 · In Metro

When the Sunborn Yatch Hotel, a floating hotel facility, berthed at the Marina waterfront recently, it elicited a lot of excitement among many Lagosians. Many saw it as a spectacular sight to behold, especially it was the first hotel of its kind to float on water in Nigeria.

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Review of laws for social and economic development in Nigeria

On October 29, 2009 · In Law & Human Rights

By Bolaji Owasanoye

A number of factors were identified as stifling investments, economic growth and robust business practices in Nigeria. These factors hinder local and foreign investment in core areas such as infrastructure provision, agriculture, real estate to mention a few. One notable feature is the inadequacies or absence of modern laws in virtually all [...]

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BREAKING NEWS : Appeal Court sacks Senator Omisore

On October 29, 2009 · In Headlines, Latest News

IBADAN – THE Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan Thursday has nullified the election of Senator Iyiola Omisore representing Osun East Senatorial Constituency in the National Assembly.

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Benue Police burst car-snatching gang

On October 29, 2009 · In Latest News

By Peter Duru

MAKURDI — Men of the Benue State Police Command have apprehended a three-man gang who specialises in snatching cars in the country.

The suspects who were nabbed at a routine Police check point in Makurdi town are Noah Onoja, a 25-year-old school drop-out; Godwin Aduma, 27, and Augustine Odeh, a 21-years-old security [...]

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12 Adamawa LGAs to benefit from NAPEP programme

On October 29, 2009 · In News

By Umar Yusuf

YOLA— Twelve of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State are to benefit from the “In Care of the People (COPE) poverty alleviation programme of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP).

Under the programme, 1,000 households in the selected council areas would benefit from the N72 million released by the Federal [...]

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Nigerian banks recapitalised soon, economic view bright, CBN

On October 29, 2009 · In Business

GERIAN banks are expected to be recapitalised as soon as possible and the near-to-medium-term outlook for Nigeria’s economy was positive, Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Wednesday.

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FDI from Germany in 2008 put at 138m Euro

On October 29, 2009 · In News

THE Germany Embassy said in Abuja on Wednesday that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from that country to Nigeria in 2008 was 138 million Euro. Mr Cord Busche, the First Secretary, Press and Cultural Section, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the forthcoming 2ndGerman-Nigeria Business Forum coming up in Abuja from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10.

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FG to establish aircraft maintenance centre

On October 29, 2009 · In Business

RETIRED Maj-Gen. Godwin Abbe, the Minister of Defence, said the Federal Government planned to establish an aircraft maintenance centre. Abbe made the disclosure when the Chinese Military Attachéé, Snr Col. Kang Honglin, paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja on Tuesday. 

Receiving the attachéé, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi, who represented [...]

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Why deregulation is the way forward

On October 29, 2009 · In News

From the portents and signals, Nigeria seems not far from the throes of another contrived eruption. Already, there’s a lot of sabre rattling that reminds one of those days in school when the aluta continua slogan was ‘we no go gree o, we no go gree!’ Self appointed champions of the people are already positioning themselves for talk shows, interviews, even street demonstrations where they will rail against the evil of deregulation.

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NIMASA to register boat operators in Kogi

On October 29, 2009 · In Latest News

By Ifeyinwa Obi

LOKOJA — Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said it would commence the registration and licensing of boat operators in Kogi State.

At least no fewer than 182 boat operators were operating without licences on River Niger in Lokoja alone. It was also discovered that no fewer than 2,000 boat [...]

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