Long military rule hinders credible elections, says don
By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA— Professor of Criminology, and the Director of the centre for the study of corruption, University of Abuja, Professor Femi Odekunle, has attributed failure by Nigerian government to conduct credible elections over the years to long period of military rule. The professor also believed that even when and where elections may be […]
Youths lay siege to NDDC office in Benin
ACTIVITIES at Edo State office of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, were brought to a stand still, weekend, as management and staff of the agency were held hostage for several hours by Ijaw youths believed to be ex-militants from Ovia North East and Ovia South West local government areas of the state.
Yar’Adua was peace loving – Etiebet
By Dapo Akinrefon FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Chief Don Etiebet, yesterday described late President Umaru Yar’Adua as a great and peace loving president who will be missed by Nigerians. Paying his tribute to the late Yar’Adua, Chief Etiebet said the late president will be remembered for his commitment to solving the Niger […]
The Predictable Failure Of Vision 2020
The Dream Economy envisioned in government’s “‘Vision 20:2020’ seeks to position Nigeria as one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. In economic terms, this translates to having a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of at least US$900 billion by that date compared to about US$212 billion as at 2008″…. (Source: Nigeria Vision 2020 Economic Transformation Blueprint – pg. 26, work-in-progress as at 5/10/2009.
Housing professionals charged to checkmate quackery
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Nduese Essien, has called on professionals in the housing development sector to take new measures to checkmate the activities of quacks in the built environment.
Oil firms to sue FG over PIB
INDICATIONS are that Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and other international oil companies, IOCs, have concluded arrangements to sue the Federal Government if it goes ahead to review existing production sharing contract, PSCs, agreement guiding the operations of deepwater oil blocs.
