A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mahmud Yayale Ahmed said the present administration has made remarkable strides in the power sector road map, which set the tone for reforms in power.

The same day’s edition of the paper reported that workers at the National Assembly, NASS, had not been paid their salaries for October; and legislature’s third quarter allocation is still pending (p 5). And, on its back page, the RIPPLES cartoonist reminded us that Dr Okonjo-Iweala recently assured us that ‘Nigeria is not broke”. To which RIPPLES replied, “Yes. It’s Nigerians that are broke.”

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, has said that, in a bid to fast track job creation in the country, the Federal Government recently inaugurated national job board under the chairmanship of the Vice President to create three million jobs for unemployed Nigerians in the next 12 months.

Chidi Amuta is the founding director of the Rural Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI), old Imo State. Currently he is the chairman and CEO, Silson & Weizmann Associates Ltd, a media and information warehousing company, and OUTCOMES, an international public affairs and policy consulting company.

Carmudi Nigeria, an online car retailer has said that its target is to attract at least ten million users to its website, www.carmudi.com.ng even as the site recorded about 40,000 listings including over 800, 000 Facebook fans.