Making Nigeria Africa’s energy flagship
Nigeria’s ambition to position itself as Africa’s energy frontier, as promoted by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, at the 25th World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is apt. With substantial oil and gas reserves, the country possesses the natural resources to become the continent’s major energy investment destination. But […]
To our teachers
JUST think for a second what the world would be without teachers. As the images rush through your mind, think again about the treatment teachers get from us individually, and from their employers, especially governments.
Abuse Of LG Funds Continues
THE Supreme Court five years ago annulled some sections of the Monitoring of Revenue Allocation To Local Governments Act 2005 that awarded the Auditor-General of the Federation powers to monitor the use of funds allocated to the local government areas.
Eid-el-Fitri – Selflessness, Sacrifice, Sanctity
MUSLIMS all over the world are celebrating the end of their fasting. The annual spiritual ritual which lasts 30 days is essentially a period of spiritual re-birth for the faithful who observe its tenets and learn the lessons.
Striking South East lecturers
On Monday September 6, 2010, the striking lecturers of state-owned universities in the South East geopolitical zone donned full academic regalia and staged a protest march in Enugu, the political capital of the defunct Eastern Region, over the failure of governments in the zone to implement the Federal Government/Academic Staff Union of Universities (FG/ASUU) pact reached last year after a prolonged national strike.
Cholera – A Country’s Shame
TWO minor factors that emphasise governments insensitive to Nigerians – our overwhelmingly unacceptable sanitary conditions and the abysmally low levels of access to medical services – have helped in the ricocheting cholera outbreaks.
