Sell off or privatise current local refineries, NACCIMA urges FG
The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Saturday, urged the Federal Government to sell off or privatise the current local refineries in the country while encouraging new private refineries to be setup.
NCC impounds N4.38bn pirated goods … Secures 29 convictions
THE Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), says it prosecuted 31 copyright cases in 2012, 26 of which were criminal convictions of pirates and five civil suits.
Probation for suicide bomber should be reduced – Sagay
Professor Itse Sagay, SAN, has welcomed the sentencing of Edmund Ebiware, an accomplice to Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND’s leader, Henry Okah, in the 2010 Independence Day Bombing in Abuja, but noted that the period for which the convict could be considered for probation can be reduced.
Shell spills over 26,000 barrels of oil in 13 months
Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, spilled in excess of 26,411 barrels of oil in 13 month period, January 2012 to January 2013.
Chime handed over to me – Onyebuchi
THE Acting Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, has denied reports that his expenditure limit has been fixed at N500.000 in the absence of Governor Sullivan Chime.
American democracy and President Obama
THE text of President Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech delivered January 21st, 2013 at the National Mall of the Capitol, Washington DC is similar in tone, gravity and perennial lucidity and clarity to any of the chapters of Moses’ Deuteronomy in the Holy Bible.
