…Says NGF is now an opposition platform to FG
LAGOS — Chairman of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih has called for a change in the way the party chooses its presidential and gubernatorial candidates in order to reduce rancour.

Former Prime Minister of Canada, The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, has described Nigeria as a country with a rapidly developing economy and Canada’s largest economic partner in sub-Saharan Africa, saying it is time his country and Nigeria forged a “new partnership”.

IN the beginning: Following he revolution that swept through the advertising industry in the 80s and 90s, it was apparent that globalization and its effects will culminate in international affiliations in the succeeding years.

YENAGOA—The Federal Government, weekend, tasked traditional, community and religious leaders in the Niger Delta to pacify the youths in their areas to stop kidnapping expatriates working with firms handling the dualisation of the East-West Road project.

Nigeria is a country of 167 million people by the current population estimate. Just as the population is fast growing, so are the ideas of how to grow the economy. Just as every Nigerian is a football coach, so is every Nigerian a development economist. Each person has his/her own idea and whether they are motor park economists or classroom economists, whichever group gets the ears of the powers-that-be has its way.

LAGOS—Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, weekend, said the House was working towards ensuring that majority of items on the exclusive list were moved to the concurrent list.

The administration in Oyo State as in other states perpetuates the practice of illegal caretaker administrations for its local councils it has, however, set the pace in using legal convolutions in perpetuating the illegality

Federal Government is set to change its trade policy before the end of the year, from the present Free on Board (FOB) to Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) which most countries across the world use because of its economic benefits.

OSOGBO—Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has described Senator Iyiola Omisore, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Osun State, as the most misunderstood Nigerian.

New Nation, a grass-roots empowerment project, is set to float student loan scheme in Nigeria by June 2013, as obtainable in developing countries like America.

Presenting its interim report, Nwokoukwu said the panel sat regularly, interviewed all academic and non-academic staff of the institution, looked at the originals of their certificates and retained the photocopies, which had been forwarded to the issuing institutions for actual confirmation of their authenticity.

In spite of the massive potentials of the solid minerals sector in the country, it contributes only marginally to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to an incoherent policy framework and lack of political will. The President of the Progressive Miners Association of Nigeria, Mr. Sunny Ekosin, in this interview, says that the nation can earn over a trillion naira and create two million jobs between now and 2015 if President Jonathan sets up a Presidential Committee on Solid Minerals to give the sector a push.

Inadequate infrastructure has been severally identified as the biggest challenge to Nigeria’s economic development. Addressing this challenge requires billions of naira, which is beyond what the budget of the three tiers of government can provide, hence the public private partnership approach to solving the infrastructural challenge.

The total revenue collected by the Federal Government stood at N2. 425.3 trillion in the first three months of 2013, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has reported in its first quarter 2013 report on its website.

AS we prepare for the final rites of my deceased senior friend, colleague and associate, Chief Pini Jason Onyegbadue, the Onu Na-ekwuru Oha, (the people’s spokesman), I offer my humble tribute in form of insights into the way he lived his professional life, some of which we shared together.