The pepper soup legislature
EVERY beginning, no matter how small, is difficult. That explains why our generation has aptly been described as the era of cruel and unusual punishment; and the age of torture. Everything we had came the hard way.
Customs arrests professor with $1.1m at Lagos Airport
OPERATIVES of the Nigeria Custom Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammed International Airports, MMIA, Command, Wednesday arrested a passenger with $1.1 million at MMIA, Lagos on his way to Kenya.
ICT: Expert says Nigeria can be better than India
An Information Communication Technology, ICT expert, Dr. I.K. Oyeyinka, has said that Nigeria can be far better than India in technology if the right institutions and government agencies properly manage computer gurus in the country.
Reps summon Orubebe over SURE-P
THE joint committees on Downstream, Niger Delta Ministry and Local Governments in the House of Representatives yesterday summoned Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, to explain his ministry’s role in the Federal Government’s Subsidy Re-investment Empowerment Programme, SURE-P.
Stakeholders’ to brainstorm on LG autonomy
Stakeholders in the judicial, executive and legislative arms of government, among others are to brainstorm on the autonomy of local governments in the country at a national public discourse.
2013 budget: Jonathan, NASS weigh options following deadlock
PATANI—CHAIRMAN of Patani Local Government Area, Transition Committee, Delta State, Mr. Chris Ekiyor, has said that it was not the constitutional responsibility of local government areas to pay the salary of primary school teachers.
