Thoughts on my father
I HAD quite a tough time settling on the subject of today’s discourse. The issues involved are quite personal and as any regular reader of this column would know, exploring the personal wouldn’t count as one of the strengths, if any, of this columnist. Yet, as anyone who has taken time to look at such matters would know even the most rigorously written, distant and impersonal history ultimately has its subjective side.
Hawkers pay N300 daily to area boys
There may be no end in sight to street trading in the Nigerian ICT markets despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment even as street urchins collect N300.00 daily from hawkers.
NCC, Mainone, google for Broadband summit
Indications has emerged that major stakeholders in the Nigeria broadband resources have sealed a deal with the umbrella body of the industry association, ATCON, to fashion out means of expanding the penetration and fine tuning the investment strategies.
Solution to power problems at base stations, by Akinlabi, Infotek boss
The Chief Executive Officer of AAA Infotek Limited, Mr Akinbo Akinlabi has said that his company has developed a solution that would assist telecoms operators to optimize their services and reduce costs.
African Aviation Pool settles $6.93m claims
The 52 member companies of the African Aviation Insurance Pool, said they paid about $6.93million claims to some airline operators in 2010.
Assessing Bankole’s House
THE election of the then 37-year-old Sabur Bankole on November 1, 2007, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, after the resignation of Olubunmi Etteh, was seen as a paradigm shift of a sort in the leadership of the House of Representatives. His manner of emergence devoid of imposition and his youthfulness attest to that. Bankole, himself, quickly set the ball rolling by promising to make the House the “House of the Nigerian people” through robust debates and a faithful discharge of its constitutional responsibilities of law-making, oversight functions and effective representation.
