Saving Nigeria from the increasingly absurd theatrics of Jimoh Ibrahim, by Owei Lakemfa
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu this week featured prominently in the newest theatre of the absurd staged by Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jimoh Folorunsho Ibrahim. The stage was the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, where, on October 19, 2026, Ibrahim presented the seven-volume UN 2027 draft budget to President Tinubu. Ibrahim began the […]
42 firms in contest for rehabilitation of ITD centers
No fewer than 42 firms have bided for the rehabilitation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Information Technology Division (ITD) Centres
The Group General Manager, Information Technology Division of the NNPC, Mr. DanladiInuwa made this disclosure during the bid opening at the NNPC Towers in Abuja .
Represented by the General Manager, Core IT Infrastructure of the Corporation, Mr. MuhammaduUsman, Mr. Inuwa said the eventual winners would rehabilitate the Corporation’s IT Centers in Abuja, Benin, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kaduna and Warri.
Mr. Inuwa stated that the NNPC was desirous of engaging reputable and competent IT firms that could rehabilitate its critical assets in order to provide a conducive IT working condition for its various stakeholders and members of staff to ensure unimpeded operations and efficient service delivery.
The GGM noted that the bid opening was conducted openly in the full glare of representatives of the bidding companies to demonstrate NNPC’s commitment to transparency and due process in all its operations.
Speaking in similar vein, the Group General Manager, Supply Chain Management, Mr. ShehuLiman, represented by Manager, Strategic Sourcing and Contract Management, Engr. Sandy Heman, said the bid opening process was in compliance with the Bureau of Public Procurement Act.
He assured the bidders of a level playing ground that would guarantee the emergence of the best companies among them.
Some of the bidding companies who witnessed the public bid opening expressed their satisfaction with the conduct of the exercise, describing the corporation as a transparent company that operates according to the dictates of best global standards. The public bid opening is part of the Corporation’s commitment to transparency as a Focused, Accountable, Competitive and Transparent organization, conducting its business with Integrity (FACTI) principle.
Old year/new year – thoughts
This slow, quiet late December period is always a perfect time to solemnly reflect on the past and express one’s hopes and fears for the future.
When will the US leave the UN?
MANY maybe unaware that the on-going bruising battle between the United States , US, and the United Nations,UN, over the former’s unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is not the first altercation triggered by President Donald Trump.
Sex and the perils of office
Perhaps there was a time when America would have been nearly unanimous in condemning the sexual predators, swamping them in wave after wave of public outrage, as it happened in previous episodes involving Elliot Spitzer in 2008 or Gary Hart nearly a decade earlier
On the Senate President’s roundtable on drug abuse in Kano
The hearing was a huge success. It came on the heels of the first state visit by General Muhammadu Buhari to Kano. As a follow up to the visit that was mainly to work to Governor Ganduje and his group’s agenda in APC, the President was advised by a Kano NGO, Kano LEADS Initiative to adopt the OBAMACARE strategy in addressing the drugs menace in the state.
