Return missionary schools to original owners, Cardinal Onaiyekan tells govts
MAKURDI—Bothered by the falling standards of education in the country, Head of the Abuja Ecclesiastical Province of the Catholic Church, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has urged state governments to return all missionary schools to their original owners in order to stem the steady decline of standards in the sector.
Nwabueze, failing states and urgent calls for national confab
THISDAY, February 17, 2013 in the Sunday News page carries the story titled, “Nigeria Sliding into a Failed State, say Nwabueze, Akinrinade, others- seek convocation of National Confab”. It is this phrasing of the National Question that informs the title of this particular column.
Anambra threatens to shut down illegal motor parks
ONITSHA—ANAMBRA State Government yesterday threatened to shut down illegal motor parks in Awka, Nnewi, Onitsha and other major towns to ease traffic congestion in the state.
Nigerian hospitals: Houses of health or homes of death?
A TRIPARTITE Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, just signed by the Hygeia Community Health Care,HCHC, Dutch Health insurance Fund and the Kwara State Government towards the state-wide expansion of the Kwara Community Health Insurance Programme, is designed to enrol no less than 600,000 low-income individuals in the 16 Local Government Areas of the state by 2017.
PDP in unholy alliance – Buhari
Leader and presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) has accused Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of an unholy merger with some public service agencies to hold to power by crooked means.
‘Emergence of APC may alter political equation in Plateau’
Jos—The merger of some opposition political parties ahead of the 2015 general election if successful, might alter the political equation for the governorship and other elections in Plateau State and put the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on its toes.
