African ICT Foundation empowers youths on skill acquisition
To ensure reduction in unemployment, poverty, crime and engender Information and Communications Technology, ICT literacy, African ICT Foundation is assisting Nigerian youths across the country to acquire ICT skills.
LP cheiftain escapes suspected kidnappers
FOUR suspected gunmen have stormed the residence of the mother of a Labour Party House of Representatives aspirant in Ondo State, Chief Olufemi Adekanmbi and shot sporadically in an attempt to kidnap him.
19-yr-old drug suspect in police net
A 19-year-old drug suspect, (names withheld), has excreted another 39 wraps of substance, suspected to be cocaine in detention.
INEC 2011 elections:Igini as umpire?
IN a recent contribution, I called for voices like those of advocate Mike Igini and others from Delta State to take up the gauntlet of representing the diminishing voice of Delta State in the nationallegislature in the imminent elections for 2011.
Content Act: No waivers for oil, gas operators
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Mr. Ernest Nwapa, has said oil and gas operators and multinational service companies would not be encouraged to seek waivers in the course of implementing the Nigerian Content Act.
Further retrenchment ’ll de-skill railway – Labour
NATIONAL Union of Railway Workers, NURW, has warned against further retrenchment of workers in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, saying further retrenchment would rob the corporation of skilled and experienced employees.
N2.3bn scam: EFCC probes Bankole, others
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday, said the agency will set up a panel to look into the alleged N2.3 billion scam in the House of Representatives.
We ‘ll give Nigerians good governance – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday again promised to give Nigerians transparent, good governanc
Group sues PDP, 56 other parties over zoning
A political pressure group, People’s Zone Alliance, PZA, has taken the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the 56 other political parties in the country to court to seek an interpretation over the issue of zoning ahead of the 2011 elections.
N2.3bn fraud: ICPC files fresh charges against Ogbulafor, 2 others
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, yesterday, re-arraigned former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor with two others, before an Abuja high court , over a 17-count amended criminal charge, bothering on an alleged N2.3billion fraud.
Jega’s INEC
The first of these pitfalls is the fact that President Goodluck Jonathan failed to adhere to the recommendations of the Uwais Panel on the appointment of INEC chairman, a recommendation that would have required him to make his choice from among nominees recommended by the National Judicial Council, before sending his choice to the Senate for ratification.
