We’ve reset Benue’s devt blueprint — Gov Alia
The things that were keeping Benue leaders awake five years ago are different from what they are today
We sought God’s guidance for each bomb we dropped at war – Air Cmdr Ochulor
Assuming that somebody went
into the University in 1999, if by now he has not graduated, won’t you begin to wonder why? The politicians who are complaining about the military should by now have overcome those problems which they believe and claim
the military caused
Shagari’s Frustration With Corruption in Govt — Olunloyo (2)
In the first part of this interview published last week, we prepared your minds for revelations regarding the following issues raised earlier viz:
What did Shagari tell Olunloyo? What did the Ooni of Ife have to do with the 1983 governorship elections in Oyo State? Who tried to appease Oduduwa shrine with money?
What was Olusegun Obasanjo’s role in that election? Read about Obasanjo’s attitude to money and it will shock you? Do you know how much governors earned during the Second Republic?
Did you know security vote was 50 times the salary of governors?
RIBADU’S PARDON:I couldn’t disobey President’s order – Osayande
What policing means is that you have the equipment, you have trained and trainable manpower and you support them with vehicles and all the rest of them and communication.
But these were lacking; so when robbery, for instance is committed, they block roads and they are now entangled.
Who owns New Nigerian? FG or Northern state govts?
He came up with a report, which said look, take away the liability just like they did with the Daily Times and sell the New Nigerian. Up till now, it hasn’t been done. And so you have a situation where the MD spends three-quarters of his time running around, trying to get promises that the governors have made. So, he has very little time to run the paper.
Jonathan’s Purported Aspiration : Why the Middle Belt is now for South-South, by Ameh Ebute
Senator Ameh Ebute may not command the feisty, bullish mannerism of a radical but his thoughts are! Leading a new coalition – National Movement for Equality and Change – Ebute, who replaced Iyorchia Ayu as Senate President at the height of the annulment of the June 12 Presidential elections won by MKO Abiola, insists that what his group is doing now is not about opportunism. “What informed this movement is the fact that Nigeria has existed for 50years and we also discovered going through history, that a particular area of the country had dominated governance and the political leadership of the country.
