Alhaji Lateef Olufemi Okunnu, CON, was Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing between May 1967 and December 1974 during the General Yakubu Gowon military regime. The 75-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, spoke to Vanguard in his Victoria Island office in Lagos, recently. Excerpts:
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Lagos State Government has commenced process of sealing –off properties without title documents as a way of eliminating unwholesome housing development and thus boost the status of the state as an African modern mega city
As Nigeria drifts to a cashless society, so companies and agencies are shifting their services to tally with the realities of the moment. Their products and services will not only follow trends in the market, but has to cling to some marketing communication materials to reach its target
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Ernst & Young, a professionally run auditing and accounting firm for both quoted and unquoted companies is poised to strengthen its African integration, as its Area Managing Partner for Europe, Middle East, India & Africa, Mark Otty visits Nigeria
On Wednesday, Bank of Nigeria (CBN) released the External Sector report for the third quarter of 2010, which shows that the country’s current account fell by 62 per cent in the third quarter of last year due to huge import bill and decline in exports
CROSS River State Chairman of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, Hon. Cletus Obun, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to appeal against the judgment of the Abuja High Court stopping five states from participating in the April 2011 governorship election in the country.
Managing Director/CEO of Continental Transfert Technique Limited (CONTEC), Dr. Benoy Berry, has emerged winner of the maiden Outstanding Achievement in Technology Award of the Nigeria Association of Science Journalists
When social scientists say for every action there is a reaction or when James Hardly Chase wrote There’s Always a Price Tag several years ago, they might not have had Jos, the Plateau State Capital in mind. However
Hi Readers! It was the festive season alright, but my heart became heavy as the time for Milwan, Heather and Robert to return to Britain, drew near. After the party for them at Becky’s place they had just under 48 hours before leaving. I jokingly asked if they would consider staying for Christmas.
BASED on our concluding statement in last edition of this topic that the South East has the highest quota of outwardly migrant population, the South West being the biggest destination, the question before us is: why? The answer is that Igbo people were forced into this migratory sociology due to paucity of land space which is largely tucked away inland.
WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, late last, year announced the revocation of operating licences of some 224 microfinance banks (MFBs) in the country as part of its statutory functions of regulating the banking industry, one of the names that featured was the Eagle Flight Microfinance Bank. There was panic in the sector as there was stampede in the industry as customers fell on one another trying to recoup their deposits
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