Crossing the red line by the Opposition and Government(3), by Eric Teniola
From last week continues the narrative on the 1959 elections, the nation-wide campaigns and the accusations and counter- accusations by rival party leaders of infractions by supporters of other parties. For instance, Alhaji Aliyu Makama Bida had said that Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his supporters had violated Northern traditions, for which they would never be […]
Much ado about national security adviser (2)
By Eric Teniola MAJOR General Mohammed was the military governor of Benue-Plateau from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Muhammed. He was also the first Director-General of the National Security Organisation, NSO. He lives quietly now in Ilorin. He had his military service between 1958-1979. In 1999 when President […]
Much ado about national security adviser
GENERAL Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, GCFR, whose tenure was between August 27, 1985 and August 26, 1993, was the first to introduce the office of the National Security Adviser to this country. That was in January 1990 when he made my friend, the seventh Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Gambo Jimeta the first national security […]
The imbalance in NDDC as it affects Imo and Ondo states (4)
By Eric Teniola PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Chief Godwin Eyarubere Omene, the first indigenous deputy Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, the first Managing Director of NDDC. Chief Omene is from Delta State. President Obasanjo also appointed Chief Onyema Ugochukwu (76) as the pioneer Chairman of NDDC. He is from Abia State. […]
The imbalance in NDDC as it affects Imo and Ondo states (2)
By Eric Teniola …continued from last week OMPADEC (g) To consult to the Federal Government through the President, the State, Local Governments and oil mineral producing communities regarding projects, services and all other requirements relating to the special fund; (h) to render annual returns to the President, Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces and copy the […]
The imbalance in NDDC as it affects Imo and Ondo states
By Eric Teniola OMPADEC: SINCE 2000 every President in Nigeria has been unfair to Ondo and Imo states in terms of appointments of chairman/managing director/executive director in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. It does not matter the quantum of oil produced in those two states as long as they are still members of the […]
