Corpers on voter registration exercise, down tools, protest non-payment of allowances
Youth corps members conducting the voter registration exercise in five units in Port Harcourt refused to register people for some hours, Tuesday, protesting the non-payment of their feeding, transport and other allowances.
Transparency: NEITI calls for sanctions against indicted operators
The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, wants erring oil companies identified in the 2005 oil and gas industry audit report sanctioned by the appropriate government regulatory agencies.
CBN to recapitalise rescued banks by mid-year – Sanusi
THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said the apex bank will complete the process of recapitalizing the eight commercial banks it rescued from collapse in 2009 by the middle of the year.
Lagos Island facelift triggers off rise in property values
LAGOS Island, unarguably the hottest business district in the country is witnessing an unprecedented surge in the value of commercial properties.
Achebe, Soyinka, Oba S.K Adetona: Appriasal of the colonial experience
Reference to the colonial by Continental Africans as a constraining development condition is now dismissed as an excuse just as reference to legacies of slavery by New World Africans is judged to be escapist. The refrain is “The colonial is long gone, 50 years gone- what have you done since October 1st 1960? What have you done since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?”
Shake up in Delta as Uduaghan sacks Special Assistants, political aides
ONE week after he made public plans to re-organise the apparatus of government in the state to ensure better service delivery, the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, sacked his Special Assistants and Political Aides with immediate effect.
