Oil landlords seek inclusion in management of HOSTCOM fund
NATIONAL President, Association of Families of Oil and Gas Producing Communities, ASFOGAPCOM, Mr. Joseph Abinogun, has called on the Federal Government to include Oil and Gas landowners in the management of the proposed 10 percent Petroleum Host Communities Fund.
Fashion Police legend, Joan Rivers dies at 81
Joan Rivers, the acerbic US stand-up comic and television presenter, died on Thursday, a week after being rushed to a New York hospital, her family announced. She was 81.
Of National ID card, Mastercard and the slave mentality
LAST Thursday, President Jonathan launched the National electronic Identification Card. The national ID Card project has been one of the most scandalous avenues of heist in Nigeria for decades. In cahoots with all kinds of crooked foreign businessmen, members of the Nigerian political elite have exploited the absolutely necessary need for a national identification system to fleece Nigeria of billions of dollars.
Unionists threaten 2014 school year, blame President Yayi
IF nothing is done by the government regarding claims of the World Teachers Union, the next 2014-2015 school year will be severely disrupted. The four stations and union confederations that had suspended their strike in April announced this at a press conference at the Labour House.
Completion of past projects boosted FG’s job creation bid —Presidency
ABUJA—THE Presidency disclosed yesterday that the completion of projects across the country by the Federal Government boosted job creation by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Boko Haram: ‘IBB disarmed the military’
AS the Boko Haram insurgents continue to have upper hand in the North East, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh has revealed that for the country to win the war against terrorism, there was the need for diplomatic lobbying for foreign assistance in areas of equipment.
But the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Mohammed Saleh said it was impossible for the military to win the terrorism war with the present obsolete equipment and the alleged fraud in Ministry of Defence and the Military Service.
