ANAMBRA State chapter of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, has dismissed calls by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, that the Huose of Representatives elections be cancelled over the non-inclusion of the party’s logos in the ballot papers.
Under normal circumstances where political and public offices are geared towards the service of the people, there is little or no personal gain in capturing power or its retention.
I want to believe that after this week, I may lay to rest ( For a while) the issue of age cheating and the development of the game of football, which has dominated my column for the past four weeks.
The expected acquisition of Oceanic Bank, one of the rescued banks by First Bank Nigeria Plc has collapsed following the inability of both parties to reach agreement on the value of Oceanic Bank’s assets.
The most convoluted and perhaps most abused phrases in our financial and banking circles today are “Stress Test” and “Risk Assessment.”
OF all the elections so far held in Nigeria this year, the reported fraudulent and criminal activities that characterised polling in Ika North of Delta State are shameful and disgusting. Dr. Godwin Awvioro, a lecturer in Anatomy at Delta State University, was the returning officer there. He refused to announce fabricated election results, even at gunpoint. He later surfaced at the Police Headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital to cancel the results of the fraudulent elections.
I MUST necessarily start by congratulating Goodluck Jonathan for listening to me on the matter of Ibori’s London trial. In “Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan” recently published by various media organs home and abroad I opened that topic this way: “We all love Goodluck Jonathan, and yours sincerely has arguably done more pro-GEJ articles (published home and abroad) than anybody since Atiku emptied his political campaigns of sanity.
JOHN Campbell, former American Ambassador to Nigeria has alleged that the presidential election was rigged in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan. His evidence for this serious allegation is the submission of the Civil Society Election
EVERY generation has its heroes and patriots”, says American songster, Paul Simon. As well as its demons and villains, may I add? Indeed every time we successfully transit from one regime to another, a number of individuals pop up as the architects of its success or failure.
The much-touted efforts by the Lagos State Government at making the waterways safe for transportation might come to nought if the prevailing cold war between some private boat operators and officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, is not nipped in the bud.
Thatcher’s radical policies, successfully adapted across the US, Europe and large parts of Asia, sparked off a new world order and confirmed the evolution of global economic powerhouses.
“We are growing. Whoever believed that Nigerians would move from party-based politics to personality-based politics? Parties without ideologies. I am highly impressed and really grateful to God for this paradigm shift,” said Ify as the commuter bus moved slowly in the early morning traffic.
In a bid to boost home ownership in Nigeria, stakeholders in the housing sector are seeking ways of boosting accessibility to mortgage finance through a variety of funding alternatives.
Dr Dave Obiora is the Managing Director of Khemsafe Computers and Communications Limited, an information and communications technology outfit based in Kaduna.
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