Nigeria’s Infrastructure Needs and the Role of Capital Markets Theoretically, it is possible to securitize anything where risk is possible.

Senator Ahmed Makarfi during his eight year stewardship of Kaduna State positively enhanced the peace that was in a state that was once notorious for ethno-religious crises. He is also credited by some with improving the infrastructure development of the state with the opening up of the communities through the construction of rural roads.

FOLLOWING the recent discovery of N12 billion in the bank accounts of two directors in the Federal Civil Service, allegedly diverted from the pension funds, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, now plans fresh raid on the banks.

On March 18, Nigeria’s satellite TV network, NN24 will host a live debate among four leading presidential candidates for the April 9 election. Ladi Lawanson, the consultant organising the debate, in an interview with journalists, talks about why a debate among presidential candidates is desirable at this time. Excerpts:

THE bus ride from Oshodi to Mile Two, a journey of about 25 minutes, was a smooth one until one Rapid Response Squad vehicle swerved and forced the commercial bus to an abrupt stop just before the Iyana Isolo Bus Stop

The Labour Party, LP, in Bayelsa State has accused the state government of arresting and intimidating its supporters with its special security outfit, Operation Famou Tamgbe, on alleged trumped-up charges of arms piling and suspicion of plotting violence in some parts of the state.

THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, representative in the Ondo State government who was appointed Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Mr. Bola Ilori has resigned his appointment.

ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu has, in the past 12 months or so, been playing poseur. He has been carrying on like some messiah, a man imbued with the definitive political alternative for a better Nigeria. His fortunes rose in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), following Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s counter defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

CONTEMPT for the Code of Conduct which the political parties were supposed to sign, began with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, releasing the document so late that it is irrelevant to the elections.

NOT being a lawyer, I am leaving the legalisms of this matter to lawyers and judges. But as a private citizen with a strong viewpoint, I am saying NO to the verdict of Justice Adamu Bello of the Federal High Court of Abuja, which on February 23, 2011, ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should not conduct governorship elections in five states because the tenures of their incumbent governors had not expired.