Tinubu’s support is helping us to do more for our people — Gov Mbah
When we were campaigning for office, we set out a blueprint for what Enugu could become under our watch. And that blueprint was predicated on three factors
‘Over 80 percent of our trucks are not road worthy’
Sharing roads with container-laden trucks is a constant source of worry to motorists. In Lagos, where Oshodi-Apapa Expressway leads to the ports, truckers constitute authorities unto themselves, and chaos is the result. So when Chief Chris Orode talks of rebranding the trucking business, everyone should listen and hope. In 2005, when the Maritime Organisation of West and Central Africa, MOWCA, decided to set up a specialised bank for the sub-sector, Orode headed the team that toured 17 of the 25 MOWCA countries.
EFCC not broke – Adegbite
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to curb financials crimes in the country to reposition the nation’s economy for tangible growth and development. Since its establishment, the Commission has prosecuted many individuals including former governors and influential business men in Nigeria.
A Yoruba man gave me life-changing job to my mother’s disbelief — Chu Okongwu
Sonny Chu Okongwu, an economist, was minister of national planning, 1985-1986; and minister of finance, 1986-1990; under the Babangida administration. At 79, he takes us through the journey of his life, from the colonial period when he was a journalist at Daily Times.
UN Security Council: Nigeria should be among 10 world’s powers – Ambassador Dahiru
Ambassador Sulaiman Dahiru is a retired diplomat who served Nigeria in many capacities, including being the Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Consul General in Karachi, Pakistan, and the Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan. He speaks on the significance of Nigeria’s election into the United Nations Security Council.
27 yrs after parcel bomb: I could have been killed like Dele Giwa – Kayode Soyinka
Three years into his education at the Baptist Boys High School in Abeokuta, his father was retired from the Nigerian Tobacco Company and couldn’t get another job because he had come of age since child-bearing didn’t happen quickly for him. This was unfortunately when he needed to see his six children through school! The second child, Kayode Soyinka, therefore decided to sacrifice his university education for his elder brother and siblings, and this soon landed him in the world of print journalism as a reporter with the defunct Daily Sketch in Ibadan at age 18 in 1976.
