Northern leaders’ position on PIB unfortunate – INC Scribe
SECRETARY- GENERAL of Ijaw National Congress, INC, Mr. Robinson Esite, has described the position of governors and National Assembly members of Northern extraction to ensure that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, did not see the light of the day over allegation that its provisions were anti-North, as very unfortunate.
SEC funds: We are not on vendetta mission – Reps
The House of Representatives has denied that its refusal to appropriate funds for the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) for the 2013 fiscal year was tantamount to an act of vendetta against the Director-General of SEC, Ms Arunma Oteh.
Why INEC can’t act on Jonathan’s posters
As controversy continues to trail the emergence of the campaign posters of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Sunday, advanced reasons why it could not act on the posters.
Affordable housing: For all or those who can afford it?
Houses are the largest “items” many people will ever spend on in their lifetime; the sheer size of the funds spent on them and the proportion of the financial system connected to housing construction and real estate make housing a dominant part of the economy.
2012: Reforms, Recovery amidst legislative/regulatory imbroglio
The capital market witnessed sustained rally in 2012 following measures put in place by the regulators to facilitate the rebound. Besides the battle between the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Director General, Arunma Oteh, and the National Assembly that continued into the new, all efforts were geared towards ensuring that the Nigerian Stock Exchnage, NSE, returned to path of profitability through various initiatives adopted by the NSE management to increase robustness of the market.
NASS ready to enact law to fight religious extremism -Mark
The Senate President, Sen. David Mark, has said that the National Assembly is willing and ready to enact a law to address religious extremism in Nigeria. Mark made this known at a reception organised in honour of John Cardinal Onaiyekan on his 30th Episcopal ordination and his recent elevation to the College of Cardinals in Abuja on Sunday.
