Investors await takeover of power assets
After almost 10 years of struggling to privatise Nigeria’s power sector, the plan finally sailed through almost a fortnight ago, when the Federal Government’s National Council on Privatisation, NCP, blew the final whistle for preferred bidders to pay up and take possession of their assets. In this piece, Sebastine Obasi, assesses the level of preparations by the investors and the incumbent management of these 15 Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, successor entities to change ownership and leadership.
The new Neanderthals (2)
Herd mentality is a necessary concomitant of primitivism. Evidence from psychology indicates that certain personality types are prone or easily susceptible to herd mentality and obsessive attachment to blood and ethnicity, irrespective of their educational and socio-economic background.
Candle of Purpose concert for slain Taiwo Adebayo
The Paroche Foundation last week at the Muson Centre, Lagos, held a colourful and elaborate concert in memory of the 26year old graduate of Political Science from Babcock University, who was killed in Lagos on the 19th August, 2012 by a drunken driver.
Newly-weds and baby pressure
I was admiring this couple at their wedding reception, marvelling at how well-matched they were; not only in their good looks and easy smiles, but also in the way they reached for each other’s hand unprompted from time to time, as if ensuring that they were connected all the time. As the chairman of the occasion made his speech, they smiled at the same time, giggled at the same time, and as if on cue, they would turn to smile lovingly at each other. I was mesmerized by the sight.
This administration is impacting positively on the transport sector – Anyaegbu, Chisco boss
The story of the Executive Chairman of Chisco Transport Nig.Ltd, Dr. Chidi Anyaegbu, one of the leading transport companies in the country, is an individual who is determined to establish a reputation grounded on hard work, vision and ambition.
The nationality question
What does it mean to be a Nigerian? This question may seem clearly resolved in the Nigerian constitution: anyone born, whose forebears as at October 1 1960, had roots in any portion of the land which as at January 1914 became amalgamated as the Union of the old protectorates of Southern and Northern Nigeria. Such a person is a Nigerian by birth and has every right pertaining thereto that affiliation guaranteed under the bill of rights. But there are cleavages in the national imagination that make this question increasingly unresolved and academic.
