The ‘One-man-One-Vote’ campaign
RECENTLY, there has been a sustained campaign in Edo State, south-south of Nigeria, for every vote to count championed by Governor Adams Oshiomhole. The slogan that is fast becoming a cliché is called ‘One-Man-One-Vote’. With this campaign, the Oshiomhole government hopes to eradicate election rigging in Edo State and by extension in Nigeria. I support any campaign, slogans, agitation aimed at defeating election rigging.
FG inaugurates committee on MDGs report
The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja, inaugurated the Inter-Ministerial Technical Committee on the production of 2009 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report. The Minister National Planning Commission, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, while inaugurating the committee, said the report would form part of the input into the United Nation’s MDGs.
EQUITIES: Bulls to assume market control
Bulls to assume market control The decline witnessed in the equities’ segment of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) is expected to give way to a bullish run this week.
NAICOM arbitrates transfer of Life portfolios, merger & acquisition, three others
National Insurance Commission has in the first quarter of this year adjudicated on five major complaints among which are complaints on transfer of life portfolios, merger & acquisition. The others are complaints on bonds, pensions and education endowment products
Zenith, Stanbic IBTC, three others slash lending rates by 41%
Banks are reviewing their prime lending rates downward to reflect the crash in deposit rates from 11 per cent to three per cent Vanguard survey has revealed.
Tayo learns a lesson!
Hi Readers! One important lesson that I’ve learnt recently is that you shouldn’t attempt to raise another person’s child. Actually, it isn’t a new lesson, as it’s always been my parents’ policy, but it has only just sunk in.
