Beyond Gov. Otti’s N1bn gift to teachers
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State deserves commendation for placing teachers at the centre of the state’s development agenda. On October 5, 2026, at the Michael Okpara Event Centre, Umuahia, during the 2026 World Teachers’ Day celebration, he announced a N1 billion Teachers’ Appreciation Fund, to be shared equally among teachers. He also ordered payment […]
Journalists as cannon fodders
ON Monday, May 3rd 2010 , the world celebrated this year’s World Press Freedom Day. The Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, declared that the focus of the celebrations was the public’s right to be informed. At the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy, a seminar was, as usual, staged to mark the day.
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).
