Nigeria’s ICT performance index 2010 and expectations for 2011
How has the Nigerian ICT vision, mission and strategies faired as crafted and enunciated under the National Policy for information Technology Development and the Telecommunications Act 2003?
Akume, 24 PDP members to join ACN
Former Governor George Akume of Benue State and 24 other Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains in the state will today, officially declare for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
Obasanjo’s superman syndrome
THERE is no doubt that the political career of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been one of the longest and most successful in Nigeria. Right from when he first entered national consciousness as the soldier who received the instrument of surrender from the defeated Biafran forces at the end of Nigeria’s Civil War, his rise within the polity has never waned.
INEC approves 8,465 polling units in Lagos
Ahead of 2011 general elections, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said it has approved 8,465 polling units for voters’ registration and for election process.
God and corruption in Africa
BY every measure of publicized and institutional Abrahamic religiosity, Africa stands out and Nigeria is a leader. This
is one face of Africa and Nigeria, its professed religiosity. The other face is corruption a result of power unrestrained by conscience and fear of God. How can this be? The question is itself its answer.
LP primaries: No regret on consensus candidate – Mimiko
GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State yesterday declared that he had no regret settling for a consensus arrangement in the on-going State Party Primaries.
Romania Taxes Her Witches
ROMANIAN witches who have long thirsted for government recognition are getting the type of deal they never imagined – they are to pay tax from this month. The law says so.
Foreign portfolio hits N381.34bn – NSE
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, yesterday announced that the Foreign Portfolio Investment, FPI, in the market has risen to N381.34 billion in 2010, from N202.483 billion recorded in 2009, representing a growth of 46.9 per cent.
How we are working to achieve EITI validation – Prof. Asobie
The Chairman of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Prof. Assisi Asobie, has stressed the organisation’s commitment to achieving full compliance status at the next board meeting of the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI, to be held early in the year.
Anxiety over whereabouts of kidnapped Nollywood actor’s wife
FEAR has engulfed Nollywood star-actor John Okafor, (Mr Ibu) as the whereabout of his abducted wife Mrs. Stella-Maris Okafor and his 14-month old baby boy is still uncertain.
Niger Delta: Why should they all? (2)
FOR as it was, Umaru Yar’Adua de-cided to go military like his mentor, Obasanjo. And so we didn’t only desire others to pray for us (ora pro nobis), we also wrote that people miss not the obvious: The wealth or monies of the region are in millions of private bank accounts with each running into millions of US dollars, all scattered throughout the whole world.
