Bank workers urged to expose money laundering, capital flight
PRESIDENT of West African Bar Association (WABA), and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, yesterday said if the Central Bank (CBN) had not intervened and sacked the executives of the five troubled banks, when it did, the banks would not only have collapsed, but the nation’s economy would have been in a serious jeopardy.
EBSUTH workers vow to resume strike Monday
Workers in Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital (EBSUTH), have vowed to resume their suspended strike by Monday, if the state government fails to meet a-3 day deadline given to it by the joint Unions/Associations of EBSUTH to implement the agreements reached between the negotiating committee of the workers and government.
Hope for power as Shell repairs gas pipeline
SHELL Petroleum Development Company’s Joint Venture Trans-Niger Delta pipeline has re-opened after being shut for repair of leaks which occurred on Tuesday owing to the activities of vandals.
NIGER DELTA TECHNICAL REPORT: Roadmap to peace (2)
Medium Term 2009-2013•Providing appropriate support to the efforts of the Federal Government to establish and carry through a credible DDR process which embodies resocialisation, capacity building and skills acquisition for ex-militants in the Niger Delta.
Edo police set up anti-kidnapping squad
WORRIED by the spate of kidnapping in Edo State, the state police command has set up a special anti-kidnapping squad, vowing that the squad would fish out the sponsors and perpetrators of the crime in the state.
ASUU suspends strike today
There are indications that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) might suspend its over three-month old strike today (Friday) as most of its chapters have endorsed a two-week suspension within which the agreement between it and government would be signed.
The legality of internal’deportation’ of Nigerians
By Emmanuel Majebi There is a very worrying trend that is rearing its ugly head in many states of Nigeria. This trend sees many Governors expelling Nigerians from a state they have chosen to live and forcefully sending them back to their so called “States of Origin†for non-just cable reasons. For want of a […]
Group blames DESOPADEC’s cash-crunch on mischief-makers
AS the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) groans under non-allocation of her share of the 13% derivation fund for the past four months, the Concerned Delta State Youth (CDYF) yesterday attributed the current travails of the commission to the handiwork of mischief makers and those intimidated by its achievements in less than two years of existence.
Group petitions Uduaghan over damaged water project
A group, Concerned Okerenkoko Youth Forum, Okerenkoko in Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri South-West local government area of Delta State, has petitioned the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, over the damage by the Joint Task Force of the multi-million naira air-to-water facility provided for the Ijaw communities during its last military operation.
Dualize Benin-Auchi highway, Edo Speaker urges FG
SPEAKER of the Edo state House of Assembly, Mr Zakawanu Garuba, yesterday called on the Federal Government to urgently dualize the Benin-Auchi highway because of the frequent cases of accidents along the road.
The Speaker lost two of his aides and a younger brother in a ghastly motor accident on the road last week.
The amnesty – militants – and the nation
CERTAINLY, the last two weeks belonged to our unassuming President Yar‘Adua and his able team in bringing amnesty to the warring militants of the embattled Niger Delta region.
Amnesty issues
By Donu Kogbara CONGRATULATIONS to President Umaru Yar’Adua for having the humility to meet and greet the Niger Delta militant leaders who have agreed to lay down their arms and disband private militias that have caused so much socio-economic disruption. Congrats also to the tough warlords of the creeks for giving peace a chance…and for […]
Challenges to Nigeria’s 2014 World Cup hopes
NIGERIA is jocularly referred to as a country of 150 million people, with everyone deeming himself qualified to coach the national football team, the Eagles, who have fallen on hard times, in the same manner that other layers of the game that many Nigerians follow with passion are suffering. The suffuse of ideas, the contention […]
They’re officers and hooligans
By Owei Lakemfa THE massacre was expected. It was just a question of time. The international community is still undecided what to do. The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken a step; it has sent a veteran coup plotter, President Blaise Campore of Burkina Faso to mediate. Mediate what? Mediate between the […]
CDHR warns against heating polity
THE Delta State Chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has advised politicians in the state to desist from heating up the polity unnecessarily, as Deltans would pass their votes on the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, at the appropriate time devoid of any form of sycophancy.
Under One Roof?
On Saturday October 10, at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Abuja Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, soldier, who led Biafra during the Civil War, administrator, politician, a man of immense intellectual fecundity, will deliver the paper, What On Earth Are We Doing Here? Other members of the cast are – General Yakubu Gowon, former Head of State, […]
