Gombe: Issues, personalities that may make or mar Dankwambo‘s govt

Gombe: Issues, personalities that may make or mar Dankwambo‘s govt

THERE is uneasy calm in Gombe State. Politicians, especially from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, have been virulently divided along personal and political lines in the interpretations of the situation. Even Bookmakers who predicted early take-off of the new government are tingly placed on tenterhooks, and have consequently launched themselves into a tirade of guesses. The populace too, are anxious. And everything has remained in insipid state since May 29 when power changed hands in the state.
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CIBN, banks partner to solve cash management

CIBN, banks partner to solve cash management

The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and the Committee of Heads of Bank Operations (CHBO) are organising a workshop aimed at fashioning out modalities and strategies that will produce a more convenient and effective cash management system.

ECOWAS, AFD sign 12m Euros accord to boost food security

ECOWAS, AFD sign 12m Euros accord to boost food security

Food security and water resources management in West Africa received a major boost with the signing of two grant agreement totalling 12.34 million Euros between the ECOWAS Commission and the French Development Agency (AFD) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on early this month.

Electoral Act: Court adjourns ACN suit

Electoral Act: Court adjourns ACN suit

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Okechukwu Okeke, Wednesday, adjourned ruling till June 30, on the suit by Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in which it is seeking the nullification of Sections 140(2) and Section 87(8) of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended for being unconstitutional, null and void.

Marching forward with cautious optimism

Marching forward with cautious optimism

It is observed that since the May general election in Nigeria, events seem to have been moving fast as being expected by many patriotic citizens. The new rulers, both at the state and federal levels, have been ushered into their elevated chairs with costly dinners, sweet wines and pleasant launches to marked the beginning of a new era.

Pension sector set to embrace mergers and acquisition

Pension sector set to embrace mergers and acquisition

Following the directive from the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to beef up their capital base, operators in the industry are bracing up for mergers and acquisition.

Edo Commissioner assures Olympic team of total support

Edo Commissioner assures Olympic team of total support

Ahead of the decisive 2012 Olympics Games qualifier between Nigeria’s Under-23 team and Tanzania on June 18 at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the Edo State government has initiated plans to ensure a successful outing for the Nigerians in the game.

End of the road for Okada robbers

End of the road for Okada robbers

Four members of a notorious armed robbery gang who specialized in snatching motor-bikes popularly called Okada from their owners are currently telling the police the story of their lives and their involvement in the devilish way of eking a living

Economics reforms: Experts warns against benchmarking

Economics reforms: Experts warns against benchmarking

Following planned reforms in the Nigerian economy and the capital market in particular, the authorities of the market have been cautioned against benchmarking the Nigerian economy and capital market with others in advanced countries.

New cabinet and Elechi’s worries in Ebonyi

New cabinet and Elechi’s worries in Ebonyi

EBONYI has remained a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) State since the dawn of civil rule in 1999 with emergence of the first executive Governor, Dr. Sam Egwu, who was succeeded by Chief Martin Elechi, another PDP governor in 2007.

Chika Ike’s  marriage in trouble?

Chika Ike’s marriage in trouble?

One Nollywood actress who has celebrated her marriage openly more than anyone is Chika Ike. She is always quick to talk about her husband, her undying love for her man, and the fact that he is also very supportive of her career.

MICA holds ‘Funfest’ for Muslim families

MICA holds ‘Funfest’ for Muslim families

It was fun and excitement for Muslim kids and families who visited the amusement park venue of the Funfest organised by the Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness, (MICA) last Sunday.

Illegal refineries resurface at Mbiama

Illegal refineries resurface at Mbiama

Barely four months after the Joint Task Force on Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Restore Hope, destroyed no fewer than 500 illegal refineries along the Orashi River at Mbiama, a border settlement between Rivers and Bayelsa States, the operators of the illegal refineries are back in business.

Delta: Power brokers in Uduaghan’s govt

Delta: Power brokers in Uduaghan’s govt

IN the last few days, the shape of the government of soft-spoken Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as Governor of oil-loaded Delta State, in the next four years, as well as personalities expected to play chief roles in the policies and actions of his administration, are beginning to come to light. Visibly, Governor Uduaghan is in-charge of the political engine heinherited from his predecessor, Chief James Ibori in 2007, but it is a known fact that it is not all the power brokers in the Ibori era that called the shots in Uduaghan’s first tenure, and in his second tenure, it is understandable that new power dealers will emerge.