AND the incumbent won. Ordinarily, there is no big deal about that, to use the pedestrian parlance, except you consider that the re-elected Anambra State Governor is no ordinary politician.

Barely 48 hours before he was redeployed to the ministry of justice as attorney general of the federation, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode spoke to Pension and You on factory accidents, the role of government and measures being taken in the interest of injured employees.

NDSU, located in Fargo, N.D., has an enrolment of more than 14,100 students, and its annual research expenditures top $100 million. During the past decade, NDSU has undergone approximately $150 million in major new construction.

When former President Bill Clinton made a historic trip to Africa in March 1998, he hailed Presidents Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, Isaiah Afwerki of Eritrea, Laurent Kabila of Congo DR, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda as the new leaders of Africa taking charge of their own backyard. As it turned out, the so-called “new leaders” were just old win in new bottles.

AMIDST speculations of fresh plots to bring back home ailing President Umaru Yar‘Adua, the Senate has commenced efforts to fast-track the amendment of the constitution to cover perceived inadequacies in the National Assembly resolution that empowered his deputy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.

THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, at its weekly meeting, yesterday, resolved to commence the process that could lead to the invocation of Section 144 of the 1999 Constitution, by setting up a six-man team to travel to Saudi Arabia to ascertain the state of health of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, who has been outside Nigeria on medical vacation.

UNITED Bank for Africa, the pan-African banking group, received further endorsement of its strong brand strength, rising 161 places to 285th in the latest ranking of the Top 500 Banking Brands by the Banker Magazine.
The increase from 451 in 2008 to 285 in the 2009 ranking marked UBA out as the second fastest growing financial brand globally and the fastest world-wide outside the US.

By Umar Yusuf Yola — Local Government Administration in Adamawa State has been grounded as members of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, and the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, embarked on an indefinite strike action.

Gover-nor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has ascribed the inability of his administration to actualise some basic provisions of the 2009 budget to the harrowing effects of the global economic crisis on the state’s revenue projections in the year.

The Plateau State Police Command has formed a special strike squad to respond to the outbreak of any further crisis in any part of the state.

…sets aside over N1bn for varsity By Dayo Johnson Akure—N80billion representing 65percent of the N124billion appropriation bill for this year in Ondo State has been set aside for capital project in order to accelerate the pace of development in the state. Also, against speculations that the present administration has abandoned work on the state University […]

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS — A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday restrained the Lagos State government from further intimidating and harassing Festac Town, Lagos residents over non-payment of tenement rates pending the determination of the suit by the residents. Trial judge in the matter, Justice Binta Nyako, gave the order at the resumed […]

THE inability of a team led by the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, to see ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua, in Saudi Arabia, last week has thrown the Yar’Adua camp into further confusion.

By  Michael Eboh LAGOS — RICE millers,  importers and distributors of Nigeria, RMIDN, has raised alarm over the upsurge in rice smuggling into the country through the border between the country and the Republic of Benin; and lamented that the nation lost over N17.3 billion that would have accrued to it from rice in 2009 […]

OIL producing communities in Delta State may drag the state government to court over an alleged non-release of the actual 50 percent derivation funds to the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPDEC.