Imo Teachers College now skills acquisition centre
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Imo State Government has approved the immediate conversion of the Teachers Training College, Egbema, to a full-fledged Skills Acquisition Centre. Confirming this to Vanguard in an interview in Owerri, the Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Planning, Mr. Levi Oguike, also expressed regret that previous administrations allowed the structures in the school […]
FG to demolish illegal structures under bridges
The Federal Government has concluded plans to demolish illegal structures constructed under bridges across the country, warning property owners and traders to immediately vacate before the end of September or risk demolition and prosecution.
Mixed reactions trail Jonathan’s cabinet lists
I’m disappointed because I was expecting well known, highly principled and highly qualified Nigerians who are not partisan. I was expecting people like Olisa Agakoba, Prof. Pat Utomi, Col. Abubakar Umar. These are the kind of people the Acting President needs.
PDP raises alarm over plans to truncate 2011 elections
*Says no friction between Jonathan and Party By Henry Umoru ABUJA— THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday raised alarm that there were plans by some Nigerians to truncate the 2011 general elections, just as it described the move as defeatist nature of the opposition. In a statement by the PDP National […]
EXCOF: Jonathan consulted govs – Sambo
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 […]
Infrastructure and the ‘Divide-and-rule’ conspiracy (2)
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.
Jobs, credible polls top TUC’s confab
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.
Akunyili, Shamsudeen, 6 others make new cabinet list
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.
INEC chair: No more Igbo
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.
Communities protest against PPMC over compensation
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 […]
DEREGULATION: Jonathan gives nod, says NNPC GMD
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.
