Why Nigeria must invest in mangroves preservation
Nigeria and the world are bleeding biodiversity at an alarming rate. Globally, the United Nations (UN) reports that 420 million hectares of forest, which is roughly the size of the European Union, have been lost since 1990, with mangroves vanishing even faster at 35 per cent of their original extent. In Nigeria, the Niger Delta’s mangrove […]
At last, turbines move to site
At last, the chaos that followed in the wake of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) set up by the federal government under the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime is set to come to an end as the turbines for the generation of electric power, have started being evacuated to sites.
Battle for new minimum wage
THIS year’s May Day anniversary were dominated by agitations over pay rise by organized Labour nationwide. This was unlike 2009 when the deregulation issue was on the front burner.
Decongesting our prisons
THE prisons and prison system in Nigeria have been in the news of recent. About a week ago, an aborted jailbreak in Kaduna led to the death of three inmates and the injury of many others.
Beyond Iwu’s Exit From INEC
AT a time it was not expected, the Acting President Dr, Goodluck Jonathan peremptorily punctuated Prof. Maurice Iwu’s tenure as Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
At last, the Local Content Act!
IN 1989, the then Minister of Petroleum Resources, Professor Jibril Aminu, displeased at the virtual lack of Nigerian presence in the upstream sector of the oil industry, invited a number of wealthy Nigerians from all parts of the country to come forward and take oil prospecting licences.
