With the benefit of historical hindsight, the ill-fated Nigerian FOI Bill resonates with fervour, and underscores the fact that freedom of information acts (FOIAs) had never been won anywhere without a sustained and protracted fight. Even in the US from which the FOIA model was exported to other countries, it came about after much pressure from media groups and organisations, consumer groups, etc spanning 20 years from 1945 to 1965. The American Congress passed the FOIA in 1966.

NIGER Deltans have been told to go for the right skills if they want to enjoy the gains from the oil resources in the region

The Action Congress, AC, has, however, raised an alarm over the on-going controversy on the PDP’s zoning policy, saying it could be a ploy by the ruling party to distract the attention of Nigerians from more urgent issues like how to ensure free and fair polls in 2011.

A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained Lagos Polo Club from expelling one of its members, Abe Ibraheem because he sued the club.

The National Committee on Minimum Wage said its report would be submitted to the Federal Government today.

WORRIED by the uproar in the implementation of the Post-Amnesty rehabilitation programme, the Bishop of the Akure Diocese of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Michael Ipinmoye, weekend, asked President Goodluck Jonathan, to supervise the implementation of the programme for the ex Militants.

SENATORS Smart Adeyemi, Kogi West, and Otaru Ohaize, Kogi Central, have condemned the attempt by the State governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris to site the proposed Kogi refinery in Itobe, Kogi East, instead of Lokoja as approved by the Federal Government.

CENTRAL BANK Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that “at the end of the current banking reforms exercise the nation would witness a “strong corporate governance, effective competition, quality services and efficient financial intermediation.”

THE Federal Government, yesterday, invited ex-militants who stormed Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Wednesday, to protest that they were excluded from the Post-Amnesty Programme by the Presidential Committee on Amnesty to a meeting.

Some founding chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State have alleged that since the Governor has made the state ungovernable by his high-handedness, a state of emergency should be declared to bring sanity to the state.