Susan Peters: Betrayed or defrauded?
One is yet to get to the root of the matter. But the truth of it remains that pretty Susan Peters may have fallen victim of betrayal or that she was duped by a friend or better still, a stranger whom she so much trusted and ever will be willing to stake her life for.
Reps threaten to stall 2010 budget over N110bn MDG projects
By Tordue Salem ABUJA — The House of Representatives yesterday threatened to embargo the 2010 budget until constituency projects awarded under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for the members of the lower House were duly implemented. President Umaru Yar’Adua will present the budget before a joint session of the National Assembly on November 19. The […]
CDS inaugurates Operational Data room
By Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, has inaugurated the first and most modern Operational Data Room ever built by the Nigerian military with a capability to get across both international and internal theaters of operation including several peacekeeping and internal security areas at the press of a button. This […]
December target for 6,000MW shaky…. Minister
…sector to gulp N83.3bn in 2010 By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — With 56 days to the deadline for the achievement of 6,000 megawatts of electricity, the Federal Government, yesterday, disclosed that only about 3,000MW of power supply was currently being enjoyed in the country. Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola, who made this disclosure during […]
2009 Budget: Senate’s comment not attack, says Presidency
By Daniel Idonor ABUJA—THE Presidency has said there was nothing wrong with the comment accredited to the Senate on the 2009 budget as a failure; saying that rather than consider the comment as an attack on the executive it should be seen as constructive criticism. Fielding questions from newsmen yesterday, Presidential spokesman, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi […]
Oshiomhole now has the opportunity to make a difference
By Jefferson Uwoghiren In few days, it will be a year, since the Comrade Governor assumed the reigns of leadership as the Executive Governor of Edo State . It is an apt time to assess the impacts of his policies, deconstruct them and distinguish the fads from the fallacious. A government is generally judged by […]
