By Innocent Anaba These are not the best of times for the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), as some national officers of the association,  have called on its National Executive Committee (NEC), to order the President of the association, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), to step down, pending investigations into allegation of impropriety in the printing of […]

By Joe Momodu Ordinarily one would have now allowed this matter to rest but for the recent activities of a directionless and visionless party called Action Congress (AC) in Edo State and its band of “wasters”, who keep insulting our sensibilities by continuously advertising their collective ineptitude in our national dailies. In the “Vanguard” of  […]

By Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika That many would engage in corruption as a means of social advancement if given the opportunity, is therefore not a significantly Nigerian disease. It is a human phenomenon. I think it Jean Jacques Rousseau, if I am not mistaking, who in tracing the development of class society and class oppression from the […]

By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—The United State’s President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to  $6.6 billion in 2009. Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a press conference organised by the United States Embassy ahead of the 2009 World Aids Day billed for December 1, […]

By Dayo Johnson AKURE—THE European Union (EU) is to undertake 1,200 micro projects worth over N9billion in nine Niger Delta States across the country under its Micro Project Programme (MPP9). Speaking at the MPP9 workshop in Akure yesterday, its team leader represented by Tammie Kammonke said the new model was based on experience of both […]