Need to criminalise estimated billing
With the forthcoming public hearing of a bill to criminalise estimated billing by Electricity Distribution Companies in Nigeria, one can say things are looking up for millions of electricity consumers denied pre-paid meters and therefore, serially raped by these companies, otherwise known as DisCos.
EFCC: Will or wherewithal?
IT was Jon Huntsman, American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur who in his humbler days worked as special assistant to the president during the first term of the Nixon administration that wrote in his bestselling book, Winners Never Cheat: “There are no moral shortcuts in the game of life.
The NPA scam: Is two and half years enough?
THE conviction and sentencing of erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Chief Olabode George and five other members of the NPA board under him to two and half years in prison each, seems to have elated many Nigerians.
The universities and suspended strikes
OF the innumerable sms messages this column receives each week in reaction, only a few stands out. The ones that do are not usually the most brilliant or profound.
My Nigeria is different from yours
By Morenike Taire ONE of the phenomena of our times that have endured much assault is the National Youth Service Corps scheme. There have been several arguments in the past in favour of its dissolution, mainly for financial and corruption reasons. The fluid of corruption that had poured upon the fabric of our nationhood from […]
A government and its strange ways
Just when you think you’ve seen all there is to be seen about the strange ways of the Yar’Adua administration and some of its officials, then will the government spring yet another one on you.
