ACN govs meet in Benin over 2011 elections
GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, will converge in Benin, Edo State, for a one-day retreat today.
Meanwhile, ACN, in the South-South said, yesterday, it would prove that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rigged ACN out in the last general elections in the zone through the law court.
50 years later: Who governs Africa, how and to what end?
IT is difficult, indeed impossible, to reflect on 50 years of governance and leadership in Africa without immediately recalling the dream and legacy of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere whose quintessential contribution to governance in Africa was his eminent personification of the humility of leadership.
Flood sacks Sapele, destroys 200 houses
Flood sacks Sapele, destroys 200 houses
Alleged Kidnapping: Orji pardons suspended royal fathers
By Anayo Okoli Umuahia-ABIA State governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has pardoned three traditional rulers in the state suspended from office last year for alleged involvement in kidnapping and other criminal activities. The governor confessed that there was no evidence of complicity or wrong doing against the royal fathers by the police. Consequently, he announced that […]
Imo uncovers 1,789 ghost workers
No fewer than 1,789 of the 10,000 unemployed youths offered appointment by the Ikedi Ohakim’s administration have been branded “ghost workers”.
N1.3bn fraud: How we paid N450m for N16m contract – PermSec
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, has told a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja, how N450 million was paid by the state government to several persons, of which only N16 million was used for the supply of stationery and office equipment at the instance of the then Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Tutari.
