Imo to bring back Israeli water engineers

Arrangements are in top gear to bring back the water engineers from Israel that constructed the Owerri Water Scheme during the Sam Mbakwe administration. Disclosing this in an interview, the commissioner for public utilities and rural development, Mr. Ralph Nwosu, the best option left for the administration was to bring back the originators of the […]
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Protector of the State: The role of Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as NSA

This is a deconstruction of the man many would love to hate and about whom not much is known, at least by a large segment of Nigerians. As the new National Security Adviser, NSA, to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, Gusau brings a sterner hand to the table. This report is an examination of the man Gusau and his profile in the military as well as the political sphere.

Marginalisation charge against Uduaghan: Kinsmen take on lawmaker

A group under the aegis of  Concerned Indigenes of Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State has criticised the member representing the council in the state House of Assembly, Dr. Olisa Imegwu, for accusing the state government of marginalizing the area in the 2010 budget. It said the accusation lacked merit and asked the […]

NFC DG mourns Macebuh

The Director General of the Nigerian Film Corporation, NFC, Mr. Afolabi Adesanya has described ace newspaper columnist, Dr. Stanley Macebuh, who died last week, as a great mind who impacted profoundly on people’s lives. In a tribute to the deceased, Mr. Adesanya said: “Stanley Macebuh!  He was an excellent boss, a good friend and a […]

Hundreds in Rivers suffering from Glaucoma

By George Onah Hundreds of Rivers State residents are  suffering from glaucoma, a silent blinding disease which has been traced to racial, ancestry, family history, high myopia and age. Speaking to Sunday Vanguard in Port Harcourt, weekend, consultant ophthalmologist in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Adebayo Adio, said “some form may occur at […]

Uduaghan plans mechanic villages for Warri, Effurun

Delta State Government plans to provide mechanic villages for the twin cities Warri and Effurun, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan announced in Effurun at the weekend. Governor Uduaghan on an inspection of the dualization of Refinery Road said the envisaged evacuation of motor mechanics to a village was part of efforts aimed at making the areas clean. […]

They never listen; That is the problem(2)

All of a sudden, the language changes to suit the new situation. Fortunately, the matters involved are very simple and straightforward to people who are not shackled by demands of office.

Yar’Adua’s incapacitation : What do State Governors want?

State governors have been flip-flopping on the import of the incapacitation of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since November 23, 2009. This report examines what their role ordinarily ought to be at a time like this but concludes that self-serving interests and the bug of myopia have combined to create a blurry vision for the state governors. Why? The ambition of some of them for 2011 is at stake.

What Obasanjo told me about Yar’Adua, by Doyin Okupe

He is a medical doctor but is more well known as a rambunctious politician. Massive looking Doyin Okupe could be a stormy petrel. You may not be sure of his weight but during the still-born Third Republic, when Okupe first served as Director of Publicity for the National Republican Convention, NRC, and later Director of Field Communications for the Bashir Tofa Presidential Campaign Organisation, he pulled some weight.

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