From the monthly archives: September 2010

Save our children from pneumococcal disease, PAN urges Jonathan

On September 27, 2010 · In Health

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has been called upon to use his good office to ensure the survival of Nigerian children by operationalising the proposed comprehensive routine child immunisation in the country.

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Outsourcing security capacity building: The Guinea Bissau example

On September 27, 2010 · In Tuesday Platform

SUNDAY September 12, 2010 NEXT on Sunday under its Brief’s carried a story on Angola’s intent to send military, police officials to Bissau to study, according to Angola’s army chief, “how to help the West African state to reform its troubled army”.

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Why we should close down the CBN for two years (2)

On September 27, 2010 · In Viewpoint

IT was more or less the same story in neighbouring Kenya. Prime Minister Odinga, a Kikuyi , who won the election wanted control of the Central Bank of Kenya.

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Amaechi and the social services levy (2)

On September 27, 2010 · In Viewpoint

DURING his address to the State House of Assembly on why the bill should be passed into law, Governor Amaechi explained that the law would consolidate all the recent developments in the education and health sectors.

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Fresh amendment of constitution possible, but… – Ndoma Egba

On September 27, 2010 · In Headlines

LAGOS—DEPUTY Senate Leader and member National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba SAN, yesterday, said that fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 would be tight but stressed that the exercise would be carried out because of the exige

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Ekwueme, Nnamani, others in Owerri for Igbo summit

On September 27, 2010 · In News

ALL is set for a grand summit of Igbo political leaders, especially those positively disposed to the preservation of the zoning arrangement of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today in Hotel Concorde, Owerri

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The referees died? ……..Why?…..How?……..

On September 27, 2010 · In Sports Bassey

performance against his team, was quoted as saying that one day, a referee’s corpse will be picked on the field of play.

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Yes, let the debates start

On September 27, 2010 · In People & Politics

On the threshold of our golden jubilee, we have a crop of presidential aspirants who are depending on ethnic and sectional calculations for their winning the race.

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Election Cases Linger

On September 27, 2010 · In Editorial

Those who argued about the injustice of people improperly elected assuming offices, benefitting from the spoils of the office until a court annuls the election, had expected that elections held four months to the handover date would provide enough time to dispose of cases at the tribunals.

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Owie flays INEC’s call for polls extension

On September 27, 2010 · In News

FORMER Senate Chief Whip, Senator Rowland Owie, weekend, described as ill motivated, the call by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the extension of the 2011 general elections. He called on the National Assembly not to approve the extension.

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Invasion of Gbagi’s residence: Delta govt reacts

On September 27, 2010 · In News

Delta State Government has denied insinuations by Chief Kenneth Gbagi, Minister of State for Education, whose country home was recently invaded by a combined team of soldiers and policemen, that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was behind the attack.

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RIGHT OF REPLY: The Balewa saga

On September 27, 2010 · In Viewpoint

Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.

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Akomas, former Abia deputy gov joins guber race

On September 27, 2010 · In News

ABIA State politics is gradually gaining momentum with the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Comrade Chris Akomas, picking governorship form on the ticket of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, to challenge his former boss, Governor Theodore Orji.

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Wheeling dealing

On September 27, 2010 · In Life with Treena Kwenta

Hi Readers! Do know that feeling of deflation you have, when on rushing home to report to your mother a clever thing you’ve done, and you meet a blank stare from her, indicating that what you considered ‘being clever’ was actually an act of stupidity? That was how I felt when I got home and told nanny of my encounter with Belinda in the office in Ikeja.

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