By Daniel Idonor ABUJA — Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State yesterday rose from high level secret talks with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan with a declaration that the Governors of the 36 states of the federation were duly consulted by Jonathan on the proposed composition of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF. Speaking with […]

RESOURCES are of course a big part of it. In keeping with the theory of scarce resources, the scarcity in itself is usually enough to make love to wax cold and neighbours to turn against neighbours. It is an archaic concept, really, conjuring images of the homo erectus clubbing his neighbour upon the head because the latter has been more successful than he has been in his hunt for meat, and man must wack.

Members of the Trade Union Congress ( TUC) were in Benin , the Edo state capital for the 8th Triennial Delegates Conference, held March 18- 19 , 2010. The high point of which was to elect a new set of leaders to run the affairs of the central labour centre for another three years.

EIGHT additional ministerial nominees including erstwhile Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili and her National Planning counterpart, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman were presented to the Senate yesterday.

THERE has been some excitement since the news broke that, after all, there might be a change of guards at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). If this happens, it will further heighten the expectation that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan may have chosen to chart a course that is not business as usual. The INEC Board led by Professor Maurice Iwu was already looking forward to conducting the next general elections.

By Emma Arubi WARRI—HUNDREDS of Itsekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo natives in Warri metropolis yesterday stage a peaceful protest against the management of Product and Pipeline Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, for non-payment of compensation. They also said they were protesting against failure of the company to provide  relief materials to them, following last […]

GROUP Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Sanusi Barkindo, yesterday, in Abuja informed the House of Representatives that Acting President Jonathan Goodluck has given his approval for the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector.

THE amount saved from oil windfall in the country’s excess crude revenue account has been further depleted with the sharing of $4.8 billion among the three tiers of government in the country in March.

EMPLOYERS in the country and labour leaders are among guests expected at the inauguration of Human Capital Providers Association of Nigeria, HuCaPan, whose members are registered to develop and promote standards and ethical practices in recruitment, deployment and management of outsourced manpower in Nigeria.

Since ailing President Umaru Yar’ Adua embarked upon a medical vacation in Saudi Arabia without transmitting a letter to the leadership of the National Assembly to enable his Deputy, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to emerge as the Acting President, the nation has been thrown into a constitutional chaos.

THE Senate, yesterday, voted by two-third majority to push through 36 amendments to the 1999 Constitution to alleviate the nation’s electoral system.

The current government’s policy to launder the image of the country through the re branding efforts of Former Minister of Information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili received a boost penultimate week at the Oranmiyan Hall of Airport Hotel, Ikeja with the public presentation of a book, Nigeria: A Harvest of Nature, an illustrative compendium on Nigeria written by Engr. Adamu Ajunam, an engineer who works in Julius Berger PLC.

AT the homicide section of the dreaded State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos, Lucky Agofure, an Edo-state born hotelier looked resignedly remorseful. He stared directly at this reporter’s eyes and said, “If I had known, I would have paid Princewill the N1,000 debt that has now led to his death. Now, look at what it has put me into”.

The Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has advised the Acting President, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan, to resist every pressure to appoint people from Niger Delta who will not add value to the life of the people in the region as ministers. In a statement signed by the Chief of Staff of IMG, Comrade Andrew Elijah, on behalf of […]

By  Anayo Okoli Umuahia—ABIA State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  has denied any alliance with the 2011 re-election ambition of Governor Theodore Orji, saying that the Governor had not returned to the party. The party said that those who are currently spreading the rumour were fraudulent persons, trying to dupe unsuspecting politicians and embarrass the leadership […]