In June 2008, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) entered into a strategic partnership with the Delta State Government of Nigeria for youth empowerment and conflict resolution in the country’s most restive region.

Concessionaires at the nation’s port are still engage in illegal collection of charges abolished by the federal authorities over a year ago. Some of these charges that are additional cost to importers include terminal handling charges, tally charges, royalty positioning and transfer charges among others.

Imo State government  says it is not happy at the slow pace of work in the execution of some of its road projects by contracting firms engaged by the administration. The Chief of Staff, Government House, Sir Emma Ohakim, who made government’s feelings known while addressing the chief executives of the contracting firms, urged them […]

Even with the enormous goodwill at his disposal, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan may succeed in creating the wrong impression that thrives on opportunism.  With his appointment of a seasoned protector of the state as his new National Security Adviser in the person of General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (rtd), Jonathan may have signaled the commencement of […]

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 […]

Last week in his column, ‘Pendulum’, Dele Momodu wrote a piece, entitled, “The Change They Can’t Stop” (Thisday March 6,2010), in which he singled out members of the National Governors Forum for a verbal diatribe of the vilest and most unsavory simile that I ever heard in a long time. And what was their offence? They dared, he said, to tell “the acting president to forget the idea of impeaching a chronically ill-president” and they also had the nerve to ask Jonathan to “sanction his boisterous ministers and turn them into robots”. Whatever that means! And for these unforgivable sins, Momodu’s pen went unabashedly –even if irresponsibly- berserk: “I wouldn’t have minded,” he wrote, “if these were stark illiterates who lacked the knowledge of modern politics but some of them were sent to good schools by their parents only to end in the mud of Nigerian politics”.

THE Moderator of the General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, The Rt. Rev.  Ubon Bassey Usung, has warned that the recurring ethno-religious crisis in Jos, Plateau State, if not checked immediately, might snowball into a full-blown war. The Moderator was speaking following reports of renewed violence in which armed bandits attacked three communities […]

By Sam Eyoboka NATIONAL President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and the North Central zonal chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, The Rev. Yakubu Pam have called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the sponsors of last Sunday’s dastardly acts in Jos are revealed and prosecuted. Over […]

Fresh facts emerged at the weekend that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is bidding his time in effecting changes in government especially the much-talked about cabinet reshuffle.

Employees of the Federal Government are to enjoy a pay raise soon according to labour and productivity minister, Alhaji Ibrahim Kazaure.